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Due to its expressivity, natural language is paramount for explicit and implicit affective state communication among humans. The same linguistic inquiry (e.g., How are you?) might induce responses with different affects depending on the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Zana Bucinca , Yucel Yemez , Engin Erzin , Metin Sezgin

Emotion Recognition in Conversation~(ERC) across modalities is of vital importance for a variety of applications, including intelligent healthcare, artificial intelligence for conversation, and opinion mining over chat history. The crux of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Xingwei Liang , You Zou , Ruifeng Xu

This work investigates the capabilities of large language models (LLMs) in detecting and understanding human emotions through text. Drawing upon emotion models from psychology, we adopt an interdisciplinary perspective that integrates…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Florian Lecourt , Madalina Croitoru , Konstantin Todorov

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated a remarkable ability to capture extensive world knowledge, yet how this is achieved without direct sensorimotor experience remains a fundamental puzzle. This study proposes a novel theoretical…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Tadahiro Taniguchi , Ryo Ueda , Tomoaki Nakamura , Masahiro Suzuki , Akira Taniguchi

One challenge for dialogue agents is recognizing feelings in the conversation partner and replying accordingly, a key communicative skill. While it is straightforward for humans to recognize and acknowledge others' feelings in a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-30 Hannah Rashkin , Eric Michael Smith , Margaret Li , Y-Lan Boureau

Large language models (LLMs) have made significant progress in Emotional Intelligence (EI) and long-context modeling. However, existing benchmarks often overlook the fact that emotional information processing unfolds as a continuous…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Weichu Liu , Jing Xiong , Yuxuan Hu , Zixuan Li , Minghuan Tan , Ningning Mao , Hui Shen , Wendong Xu , Chaofan Tao , Min Yang , Chengming Li , Lingpeng Kong , Ngai Wong

Large language models (LLMs) show promising capabilities in predicting human emotions from text. However, the mechanisms through which these models process emotional stimuli remain largely unexplored. Our study addresses this gap by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Ala N. Tak , Amin Banayeeanzade , Anahita Bolourani , Mina Kian , Robin Jia , Jonathan Gratch

Recognizing emotions in conversations is a challenging task due to the presence of contextual dependencies governed by self- and inter-personal influences. Recent approaches have focused on modeling these dependencies primarily via…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Devamanyu Hazarika , Soujanya Poria , Roger Zimmermann , Rada Mihalcea

As social robots and other intelligent machines enter the home, artificial emotional intelligence (AEI) is taking center stage to address users' desire for deeper, more meaningful human-machine interaction. To accomplish such efficacious…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Benjamin Wortman , James Z. Wang

Emotion Recognition in Conversations (ERC) has gained increasing attention for developing empathetic machines. Recently, many approaches have been devoted to perceiving conversational context by deep learning models. However, these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Dou Hu , Lingwei Wei , Xiaoyong Huai

A Chatbot serves as a communication tool between a human user and a machine to achieve an appropriate answer based on the human input. In more recent approaches, a combination of Natural Language Processing and sequential models are used to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Nura Esfandiari , Kourosh Kiani , Razieh Rastgoo

Emotion recognition in conversation, which aims to predict the emotion for all utterances, has attracted considerable research attention in recent years. It is a challenging task since the recognition of the emotion in one utterance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Ting Zhang , Zhuang Chen , Ming Zhong , Tieyun Qian

In this paper, we introduce EmpBot: an end-to-end empathetic chatbot. Empathetic conversational agents should not only understand what is being discussed, but also acknowledge the implied feelings of the conversation partner and respond…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Emmanouil Zaranis , Georgios Paraskevopoulos , Athanasios Katsamanis , Alexandros Potamianos

This paper presents a web-based demonstration of Emotion Twenty Questions (EMO20Q), a dialog game whose purpose is to study how people describe emotions. EMO20Q can also be used to develop artificially intelligent dialog agents that can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Abe Kazemzadeh , Adedamola Sanusi , Huihui , Nie

How do we communicate with others to achieve our goals? We use our prior experience or advice from others, or construct a candidate utterance by predicting how it will be received. However, our experiences are limited and biased, and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Ryan Liu , Howard Yen , Raja Marjieh , Thomas L. Griffiths , Ranjay Krishna

In recent years, Internet memes have been widely used in online chatting. Compared with text-based communication, conversations become more expressive and attractive when Internet memes are incorporated. This paper presents our solutions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Hua Lu , Zhen Guo , Chanjuan Li , Yunyi Yang , Huang He , Siqi Bao

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive performance in mathematical and commonsense reasoning tasks using chain-of-thought (CoT) prompting techniques. But can they perform emotional reasoning by concatenating `Let's think…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Ankita Bhaumik , Tomek Strzalkowski

Emotion recognition in social situations is a complex task that requires integrating information from both facial expressions and the situational context. While traditional approaches to automatic emotion recognition have focused on…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Bin Han , Cleo Yau , Su Lei , Jonathan Gratch

Emotions are very important for human intelligence. For example, emotions are closely related to the appraisal of the internal bodily state and external stimuli. This helps us to respond quickly to the environment. Another important…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Chie Hieida , Takato Horii , Takayuki Nagai

While text-based emotion recognition methods have achieved notable success, real-world dialogue systems often demand a more nuanced emotional understanding than any single modality can offer. Multimodal Emotion Recognition in Conversations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Chengyan Wu , Yiqiang Cai , Yang Liu , Pengxu Zhu , Yun Xue , Ziwei Gong , Julia Hirschberg , Bolei Ma