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2025

Proceedings of the 38th Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Paula Branco, Amine Trabelsi, Kristina Kupferschmidt, and 2 more authors

PhilPapers, 2025

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  author = {Branco, Paula and Trabelsi, Amine and Kupferschmidt, Kristina and Aïvodji, Ulrich and Osman, Hussein Al},
  journal = {PhilPapers},
  title = {Proceedings of the 38th Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
  url = {https://philpapers.org/rec/BRAPOT-20},
  year = {2025}
}

FinGrAct: A Framework for FINe-GRrained Evaluation of ACTionability in Explainable Automatic Fact-Checking

Islam Eldifrawi, Shengrui Wang, and Amine Trabelsi

arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.05229, 2025

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@article{eldifrawi2025fingract,
  author = {Eldifrawi, Islam and Wang, Shengrui and Trabelsi, Amine},
  journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.05229},
  title = {FinGrAct: A Framework for FINe-GRrained Evaluation of ACTionability in Explainable Automatic Fact-Checking},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.05229},
  year = {2025}
}

Détection non supervisée de position dans les médias sociaux: une approche générique

Maia Sutter, Antoine Gourru, Christine Largeron, and 1 more author

Extraction et Gestion des Connaissances 2025, 2025

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@article{sutter2025détection,
  author = {Sutter, Maia and Gourru, Antoine and Largeron, Christine and Trabelsi, Amine},
  journal = {Extraction et Gestion des Connaissances 2025},
  title = {Détection non supervisée de position dans les médias sociaux: une approche générique},
  url = {https://hal.science/hal-04826383/},
  year = {2025}
}

2024

Can Large Language Models Address Open-Target Stance Detection?

Abu Ubaida Akash, Ahmed Fahmy, and Amine Trabelsi

Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025, 2024

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@article{akash2024can,
  author = {Akash, Abu Ubaida and Fahmy, Ahmed and Trabelsi, Amine},
  title = {Can Large Language Models Address Open-Target Stance Detection?},
  journal = {Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.00222},
  year = {2024}
}

Uncovering flat and hierarchical topics by community discovery on word co-occurrence network

Eric Austin, Shraddha Makwana, Amine Trabelsi, and 2 more authors

Data Science and Engineering, 2024

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@article{austin2024uncovering,
  author = {Austin, Eric and Makwana, Shraddha and Trabelsi, Amine and Largeron, Christine and Zaïane, Osmar R},
  journal = {Data Science and Engineering},
  title = {Uncovering flat and hierarchical topics by community discovery on word co-occurrence network},
  url = {https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41019-023-00239-2},
  year = {2024}
}

Automated justification production for claim veracity in fact checking: A survey on architectures and approaches

Islam Eldifrawi, Shengrui Wang, and Amine Trabelsi

arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.12853, 2024, 2024

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@article{eldifrawi2024automated,
  author = {Eldifrawi, Islam and Wang, Shengrui and Trabelsi, Amine},
  journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.12853, 2024},
  title = {Automated justification production for claim veracity in fact checking: A survey on architectures and approaches},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.12853},
  year = {2024}
}

Enhancing argument summarization: Prioritizing exhaustiveness in key point generation and introducing an automatic coverage evaluation metric

Mohammad Khosravani, Chenyang Huang, and Amine Trabelsi

arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.11793, 2024

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@article{khosravani2024enhancing,
  author = {Khosravani, Mohammad and Huang, Chenyang and Trabelsi, Amine},
  journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.11793},
  title = {Enhancing argument summarization: Prioritizing exhaustiveness in key point generation and introducing an automatic coverage evaluation metric},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.11793},
  year = {2024}
}

Unsupervised stance detection for social media discussions: A generic baseline

Maia Sutter, Antoine Gourru, Amine Trabelsi, and 1 more author

Proceedings of the 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2024

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@article{sutter2024unsupervised,
  author = {Sutter, Maia and Gourru, Antoine and Trabelsi, Amine and Largeron, Christine},
  journal = {Proceedings of the 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)},
  title = {Unsupervised stance detection for social media discussions: A generic baseline},
  url = {https://aclanthology.org/2024.eacl-long.107/},
  year = {2024}
}

2023

Recent trends in unsupervised summarization

Mohammad Khosravani and Amine Trabelsi

arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.11231, 2023

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@article{khosravani2023recent,
  author = {Khosravani, Mohammad and Trabelsi, Amine},
  journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.11231},
  title = {Recent trends in unsupervised summarization},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.11231},
  year = {2023}
}

Exploration of contrastive learning strategies toward more robust stance detection

Udhaya Kumar Rajendran and Amine Trabelsi

Proceedings of the 13th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment, & Social Media Analysis, 2023

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@article{rajendran2023exploration,
  author = {Rajendran, Udhaya Kumar and Trabelsi, Amine},
  journal = {Proceedings of the 13th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment, & Social Media Analysis},
  title = {Exploration of contrastive learning strategies toward more robust stance detection},
  url = {https://aclanthology.org/2023.wassa-1.37/},
  year = {2023}
}

Learning Representations through Contrastive Strategies for a more Robust Stance Detection

Udhaya Kumar Rajendran, Amir Ben Khalifa, and Amine Trabelsi

IEEE, 2023

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@article{rajendran2023learning,
  author = {Rajendran, Udhaya Kumar and Khalifa, Amir Ben and Trabelsi, Amine},
  journal = {IEEE},
  title = {Learning Representations through Contrastive Strategies for a more Robust Stance Detection},
  url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10302466/},
  year = {2023}
}

FREDA: Flexible Relation Extraction Data Annotation

Michael Strobl, Amine Trabelsi, and Osmar Zaïane

Proceedings of the 38th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing, 902-910, 2023, 2023

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@article{strobl2023freda,
  author = {Strobl, Michael and Trabelsi, Amine and Zaïane, Osmar},
  journal = {Proceedings of the 38th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing, 902-910, 2023},
  title = {FREDA: Flexible Relation Extraction Data Annotation},
  url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3555776.3578592},
  year = {2023}
}

2022

Hierarchical topic model inference by community discovery on word co-occurrence networks

Eric Austin, Amine Trabelsi, Christine Largeron, and 1 more author

Springer Nature Singapore, 2022

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@article{austin2022hierarchical,
  author = {Austin, Eric and Trabelsi, Amine and Largeron, Christine and Zaïane, Osmar R},
  journal = {Springer Nature Singapore},
  title = {Hierarchical topic model inference by community discovery on word co-occurrence networks},
  url = {https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-19-8746-5_11},
  year = {2022}
}

Exploring Preferential Label Smoothing for Neural Network-based Classifiers.

Paritosh Goyal, Chenyang Huang, Amine Trabelsi, and 1 more author

University of Alberta, 2022, 2022

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@article{goyal2022exploring,
  author = {Goyal, Paritosh and Huang, Chenyang and Trabelsi, Amine and Zaïane, Osmar},
  journal = {University of Alberta, 2022},
  title = {Exploring Preferential Label Smoothing for Neural Network-based Classifiers.},
  url = {https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=11598876924776373728&hl=en&oi=scholarr},
  year = {2022}
}

Enhanced entity annotations for multilingual corpora

Michael Strobl, Amine Trabelsi, and Osmar R Zaiane

Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, 2022

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@article{strobl2022enhanced,
  author = {Strobl, Michael and Trabelsi, Amine and Zaiane, Osmar R},
  journal = {Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference},
  title = {Enhanced entity annotations for multilingual corpora},
  url = {https://aclanthology.org/2022.lrec-1.398/},
  year = {2022}
}

Named entity recognition for partially annotated datasets

Michael Strobl, Amine Trabelsi, and Osmar Zaïane

Springer International Publishing, 2022

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@article{strobl2022named,
  author = {Strobl, Michael and Trabelsi, Amine and Zaïane, Osmar},
  journal = {Springer International Publishing},
  title = {Named entity recognition for partially annotated datasets},
  url = {https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-08473-7_27},
  year = {2022}
}

Named Entity Recognition for Partially

Michael Strobl, Amine Trabelsi, and Osmar Zaïane¹

Natural Language Processing and Information Systems: 27th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB 2022, Valencia, Spain, June 15–17, 2022, Proceedings, 2022

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@article{strobl2022namee,
  author = {Strobl, Michael and Trabelsi, Amine and Zaïane¹, Osmar},
  journal = {Natural Language Processing and Information Systems: 27th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB 2022, Valencia, Spain, June 15–17, 2022, Proceedings},
  title = {Named Entity Recognition for Partially},
  url = {https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=Mth1EAAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA299&dq=info:6onrHhCRQ7cJ:scholar.google.com&ots=SoAsQPT2xK&sig=MWeuM8u9NdYcoIZ5I7a9866e8jI},
  year = {2022}
}

2021

Seq2Emo: A sequence to multi-label emotion classification model

Chenyang Huang, Amine Trabelsi, Xuebin Qin, and 3 more authors

Proceedings of the 2021 conference of the North American chapter of the association for computational linguistics: human language technologies, 2021

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@article{huang2021seq2emo,
  author = {Huang, Chenyang and Trabelsi, Amine and Qin, Xuebin and Farruque, Nawshad and Mou, Lili and Zaiane, Osmar R},
  journal = {Proceedings of the 2021 conference of the North American chapter of the association for computational linguistics: human language technologies},
  title = {Seq2Emo: A sequence to multi-label emotion classification model},
  url = {https://aclanthology.org/2021.naacl-main.375/},
  year = {2021}
}

2020

Ana at semeval-2020 task 4: Multi-task learning for commonsense reasoning (union)

Anandh Konar, Chenyang Huang, Amine Trabelsi, and 1 more author

Proceedings of the Fourteenth Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, 2020

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@article{konar2020ana,
  author = {Konar, Anandh and Huang, Chenyang and Trabelsi, Amine and Zaiane, Osmar R},
  journal = {Proceedings of the Fourteenth Workshop on Semantic Evaluation},
  title = {Ana at semeval-2020 task 4: Multi-task learning for commonsense reasoning (union)},
  url = {https://aclanthology.org/2020.semeval-1.45/},
  year = {2020}
}

ANA at SemEval-2020 Task 4: mUlti-task learNIng for cOmmonsense reasoNing (UNION)

Anandh Perumal, Chenyang Huang, Amine Trabelsi, and 1 more author

arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.16403, 2020

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@article{perumal2020ana,
  author = {Perumal, Anandh and Huang, Chenyang and Trabelsi, Amine and Zaïane, Osmar R},
  journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.16403},
  title = {ANA at SemEval-2020 Task 4: mUlti-task learNIng for cOmmonsense reasoNing (UNION)},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.16403},
  year = {2020}
}

WEXEA: wikipedia exhaustive entity annotation

Michael Strobl, Amine Trabelsi, and Osmar R Zaïane

Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, 2020

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@article{strobl2020wexea,
  author = {Strobl, Michael and Trabelsi, Amine and Zaïane, Osmar R},
  journal = {Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference},
  title = {WEXEA: wikipedia exhaustive entity annotation},
  url = {https://aclanthology.org/2020.lrec-1.240/},
  year = {2020}
}

2019

An ensemble framework with -norm regularized hypergraph laplacian multi-label learning for clinical data prediction

Peng Cao, Shanshan Tang, Min Huang, and 4 more authors

IEEE, 2019

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@article{cao2019an,
  author = {Cao, Peng and Tang, Shanshan and Huang, Min and Yang, Jinzhu and Zhao, Dazhe and Trabelsi, Amine and Zaiane, Osmar},
  journal = {IEEE},
  title = {An ensemble framework with -norm regularized hypergraph laplacian multi-label learning for clinical data prediction},
  url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8983424/},
  year = {2019}
}

Feature-aware Multi-task feature learning for Predicting Cognitive Outcomes in Alzheimer’s disease

Peng Cao, Shanshan Tang, Min Huang, and 4 more authors

IEEE, 2019

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@article{cao2019featureaware,
  author = {Cao, Peng and Tang, Shanshan and Huang, Min and Yang, Jinzhu and Zhao, Dazhe and Trabelsi, Amine and Zaiane, Osmar},
  journal = {IEEE},
  title = {Feature-aware Multi-task feature learning for Predicting Cognitive Outcomes in Alzheimer's disease},
  url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8983258/},
  year = {2019}
}

Ana at semeval-2019 task 3: Contextual emotion detection in conversations through hierarchical lstms and bert

Chenyang Huang, Amine Trabelsi, and Osmar R Zaïane

arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.00132, 2019

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@article{huang2019ana,
  author = {Huang, Chenyang and Trabelsi, Amine and Zaïane, Osmar R},
  journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.00132},
  title = {Ana at semeval-2019 task 3: Contextual emotion detection in conversations through hierarchical lstms and bert},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.00132},
  year = {2019}
}

Seq2emo for multi-label emotion classification based on latent variable chains transformation

Chenyang Huang, Amine Trabelsi, Xuebin Qin, and 2 more authors

arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.02147, 2019

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@article{huang2019seq2emo,
  author = {Huang, Chenyang and Trabelsi, Amine and Qin, Xuebin and Farruque, Nawshad and Zaïane, Osmar R},
  journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.02147},
  title = {Seq2emo for multi-label emotion classification based on latent variable chains transformation},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.02147},
  year = {2019}
}

Self-attentional models application in task-oriented dialogue generation systems

Mansour Saffar Mehrjardi, Amine Trabelsi, and Osmar R Zaiane

arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.05246, 2019

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@article{mehrjardi2019selfattentional,
  author = {Mehrjardi, Mansour Saffar and Trabelsi, Amine and Zaiane, Osmar R},
  journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.05246},
  title = {Self-attentional models application in task-oriented dialogue generation systems},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.05246},
  year = {2019}
}

Contrastive reasons detection and clustering from online polarized debates

Amine Trabelsi and Osmar R Zaïane

Springer Nature Switzerland, 2019

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@article{trabelsi2019contrastive,
  author = {Trabelsi, Amine and Zaïane, Osmar R},
  journal = {Springer Nature Switzerland},
  title = {Contrastive reasons detection and clustering from online polarized debates},
  url = {https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-24337-0_14},
  year = {2019}
}

Phaitv: A phrase author interaction topic viewpoint model for the summarization of reasons expressed by polarized stances

Amine Trabelsi and Osmar R Zaïane

Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 2019

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@article{trabelsi2019phaitv,
  author = {Trabelsi, Amine and Zaïane, Osmar R},
  journal = {Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media},
  title = {Phaitv: A phrase author interaction topic viewpoint model for the summarization of reasons expressed by polarized stances},
  url = {https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/ICWSM/article/view/3246},
  year = {2019}
}

2018

Automatic dialogue generation with expressed emotions

Chenyang Huang, Osmar R Zaiane, Amine Trabelsi, and 1 more author

Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 2 (Short Papers), 2018

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@article{huang2018automatic,
  author = {Huang, Chenyang and Zaiane, Osmar R and Trabelsi, Amine and Dziri, Nouha},
  journal = {Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 2 (Short Papers)},
  title = {Automatic dialogue generation with expressed emotions},
  url = {https://aclanthology.org/N18-2008/},
  year = {2018}
}

Unsupervised model for topic viewpoint discovery in online debates leveraging author interactions

Amine Trabelsi and Osmar Zaiane

Proceedings of the international AAAI conference on web and social media, 2018

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@article{trabelsi2018unsupervised,
  author = {Trabelsi, Amine and Zaiane, Osmar},
  journal = {Proceedings of the international AAAI conference on web and social media},
  title = {Unsupervised model for topic viewpoint discovery in online debates leveraging author interactions},
  url = {https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/ICWSM/article/view/15021},
  year = {2018}
}

Unsupervised Mining and Summarization of Polarized Contentious Issues from Online Text

Amine Trabelsi

PhD Thesis, 2018

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@article{trabelsi2018unsupervisee,
  author = {Trabelsi, Amine},
  journal = {PhD Thesis},
  title = {Unsupervised Mining and Summarization of Polarized Contentious Issues from Online Text},
  url = {https://era.library.ualberta.ca/items/42d4dbfd-3b49-4b55-be42-526526d42314},
  year = {2018}
}

2016

Mining contentious documents

Amine Trabelsi and Osmar R Zaïane

Knowledge and Information Systems, 2016

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@article{trabelsi2016mining,
  author = {Trabelsi, Amine and Zaïane, Osmar R},
  journal = {Knowledge and Information Systems},
  title = {Mining contentious documents},
  url = {https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10115-015-0888-6},
  year = {2016}
}

2015

Extraction and clustering of arguing expressions in contentious text

Amine Trabelsi and Osmar R Zaïane

Data & Knowledge Engineering, 2015

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@article{trabelsi2015extraction,
  author = {Trabelsi, Amine and Zaïane, Osmar R},
  journal = {Data & Knowledge Engineering},
  title = {Extraction and clustering of arguing expressions in contentious text},
  url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169023X15000324},
  year = {2015}
}

2014

A joint topic viewpoint model for contention analysis

Amine Trabelsi and Osmar R Zaïane

Springer International Publishing, 2014

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@article{trabelsi2014a,
  author = {Trabelsi, Amine and Zaïane, Osmar R},
  journal = {Springer International Publishing},
  title = {A joint topic viewpoint model for contention analysis},
  url = {https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-07983-7_16},
  year = {2014}
}

Finding arguing expressions of divergent viewpoints in online debates

Amine Trabelsi and Osmar R Zaiane

Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Language Analysis for Social Media (LASM), 2014

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@article{trabelsi2014finding,
  author = {Trabelsi, Amine and Zaiane, Osmar R},
  journal = {Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Language Analysis for Social Media (LASM)},
  title = {Finding arguing expressions of divergent viewpoints in online debates},
  url = {https://aclanthology.org/W14-1305.pdf},
  year = {2014}
}

Mining contentious documents using an unsupervised topic model based approach

Amine Trabelsi and Osmar R Zaiane

IEEE, 2014

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@article{trabelsi2014mining,
  author = {Trabelsi, Amine and Zaiane, Osmar R},
  journal = {IEEE},
  title = {Mining contentious documents using an unsupervised topic model based approach},
  url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/7023372/},
  year = {2014}
}

2010

Configuration et exploitation d’une machine émotionnelle

Amine Trabelsi

Master’s Thesis, 2010

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@article{trabelsi2010configuration,
  author = {Trabelsi, Amine},
  journal = {Master's Thesis},
  title = {Configuration et exploitation d'une machine émotionnelle},
  url = {https://umontreal.scholaris.ca/items/4e819b85-4ef7-499e-b26d-6c1da91f6d06},
  year = {2010}
}

The emotional machine: A machine learning approach to online prediction of user’s emotion and intensity

Amine Trabelsi and Claude Frasson

IEEE, 2010

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@article{trabelsi2010the,
  author = {Trabelsi, Amine and Frasson, Claude},
  journal = {IEEE},
  title = {The emotional machine: A machine learning approach to online prediction of user's emotion and intensity},
  url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/5572578/},
  year = {2010}
}