Challenge: Existing approaches to fine-grained emotion classification operate in Euclidean space, where the flat geometry makes it difficult to distinguish semantically similar label labels.
Approach: They propose a semantic alignment framework that leverages the Lorentz model of hyperbolic space to embed text and label representations into hyperbolical space via the exponential map.
Outcome: The proposed framework improves on two benchmark FEC datasets.

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