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Multi-task Learning for Multi-modal Emotion Recognition and Sentiment Analysis

Computation and Language 2019-05-16 v1

Abstract

Related tasks often have inter-dependence on each other and perform better when solved in a joint framework. In this paper, we present a deep multi-task learning framework that jointly performs sentiment and emotion analysis both. The multi-modal inputs (i.e., text, acoustic and visual frames) of a video convey diverse and distinctive information, and usually do not have equal contribution in the decision making. We propose a context-level inter-modal attention framework for simultaneously predicting the sentiment and expressed emotions of an utterance. We evaluate our proposed approach on CMU-MOSEI dataset for multi-modal sentiment and emotion analysis. Evaluation results suggest that multi-task learning framework offers improvement over the single-task framework. The proposed approach reports new state-of-the-art performance for both sentiment analysis and emotion analysis.

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@article{arxiv.1905.05812,
  title  = {Multi-task Learning for Multi-modal Emotion Recognition and Sentiment Analysis},
  author = {Md Shad Akhtar and Dushyant Singh Chauhan and Deepanway Ghosal and Soujanya Poria and Asif Ekbal and Pushpak Bhattacharyya},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.05812},
  year   = {2019}
}

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Accepted for publication in NAACL:HLT-2019

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