@article{muhammad2025brighter,title={{BRIGHTER}: {BRIdging} the Gap in Human-Annotated Textual Emotion Recognition Datasets for 28 Languages},author={Muhammad, Shamsuddeen Hassan and Ousidhoum, Nedjma and Abdulmumin, Idris and Wahle, Jan Philip and Ruas, Terry and Beloucif, Meriem and de Kock, Christine and Surange, Nirmal and Teodorescu, Daniela and Ahmad, Ibrahim Said and others},journal={ACL},year={2025},featured={true},conference={EMNLP},abbrev={EMNLP},type={EMNLP}}
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