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In emotion recognition in conversation (ERC), the emotion of the current utterance is predicted by considering the previous context, which can be utilized in many natural language processing tasks. Although multiple emotions can coexist in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Joosung Lee

Emotion recognition in conversations (ERC) is a crucial task for building human-like conversational agents. While substantial efforts have been devoted to ERC for chit-chat dialogues, the task-oriented counterpart is largely left…

Utilizing Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) models for Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) has proven effective, yet limited research has explored cross-lingual scenarios. This study presents a comparative analysis between human performance and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-01 Zhichen Han , Tianqi Geng , Hui Feng , Jiahong Yuan , Korin Richmond , Yuanchao Li

Emotion recognition in conversations (ERC) is a rapidly evolving task within the natural language processing community, which aims to detect the emotions expressed by speakers during a conversation. Recently, a growing number of ERC methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Tao Shi , Xiao Liang , Yaoyuan Liang , Xinyi Tong , Shao-Lun Huang

Each utterance in multi-turn empathetic dialogues has features such as emotion, keywords, and utterance-level meaning. Feature transitions between utterances occur naturally. However, existing approaches fail to perceive the transitions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Wongyu Kim , Youbin Ahn , Donghyun Kim , Kyong-Ho Lee

Emotion recognition in conversation (ERC) has attracted much attention in recent years for its necessity in widespread applications. Existing ERC methods mostly model the self and inter-speaker context separately, posing a major issue for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Chen Liang , Chong Yang , Jing Xu , Juyang Huang , Yongliang Wang , Yang Dong

Emotions widely affect human decision-making. This fact is taken into account by affective computing with the goal of tailoring decision support to the emotional states of individuals. However, the accurate recognition of emotions within…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Bernhard Kratzwald , Suzana Ilic , Mathias Kraus , Stefan Feuerriegel , Helmut Prendinger

Affective Computing (AC) is essential for advancing Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), with emotion recognition serving as a key component. However, human emotions are inherently dynamic, influenced not only by an individual's…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Yupei Li , Qiyang Sun , Sunil Munthumoduku Krishna Murthy , Emran Alturki , Björn W. Schuller

The advent of deep learning models has made a considerable contribution to the achievement of Emotion Recognition in Conversation (ERC). However, this task still remains an important challenge due to the plurality and subjectivity of human…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Barbara Gendron , Gaël Guibon

As the use of interactive machines grow, the task of Emotion Recognition in Conversation (ERC) became more important. If the machine-generated sentences reflect emotion, more human-like sympathetic conversations are possible. Since emotion…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Joosung Lee , Wooin Lee

Speech emotion recognition (SER) has been a popular research topic in human-computer interaction (HCI). As edge devices are rapidly springing up, applying SER to edge devices is promising for a huge number of HCI applications. Although deep…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Yi Chang , Zhao Ren , Thanh Tam Nguyen , Kun Qian , Björn W. Schuller

Emotion Recognition in Conversation (ERC) has become a fundamental capability for large language models (LLMs) in human-centric interaction. Beyond accurate recognition, coherent emotional expression is also crucial, yet both are limited by…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Shaowei Zhang , Faqiang Qian , Yan Chen , Ziliang Wang , Kang An , Yong Dai , Mengya Gao , Yichao Wu

Affective brain-computer interfaces based on electroencephalography (EEG) is an important branch in the field of affective computing. However, individual differences and noisy labels seriously limit the effectiveness and generalizability of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Rushuang Zhou , Zhiguo Zhang , Hong Fu , Li Zhang , Linling Li , Gan Huang , Yining Dong , Fali Li , Xin Yang , Zhen Liang

Emotion Prediction in Conversation (EPC) aims to forecast the emotions of forthcoming utterances by utilizing preceding dialogues. Previous EPC approaches relied on simple context modeling for emotion extraction, overlooking fine-grained…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Haoxiang Shi , Ziqi Liang , Jun Yu

Efficient discovery of a speaker's emotional states in a multi-party conversation is significant to design human-like conversational agents. During a conversation, the cognitive state of a speaker often alters due to certain past…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Shivani Kumar , Anubhav Shrimal , Md Shad Akhtar , Tanmoy Chakraborty

Speech emotion recognition~(SER) refers to the technique of inferring the emotional state of an individual from speech signals. SERs continue to garner interest due to their wide applicability. Although the domain is mainly founded on…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-29 Sneha Das , Nicklas Leander Lund , Nicole Nadine Lønfeldt , Anne Katrine Pagsberg , Line H. Clemmensen

Emotion Recognition in Conversation is a core component of affective computing, while current resources of sign language emotion datasets primarily focus on isolated sentences and lack conversational context. Models trained exclusively on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Yusong Wang , Keyu Mao , Takao Obi , Minghao Shao , Kotaro Funakoshi

Empathetic speech dialogue requires not only understanding linguistic content but also perceiving rich paralinguistic information such as prosody, tone, and emotional intensity for affective understandings. Existing speech-to-speech large…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-26 Zhuoyue Gao , Xiaohui Wang , Xiaocui Yang , Wen Zhang , Daling Wang , Shi Feng , Yifei Zhang

Holistic perception of affective attributes is an important human perceptual ability. However, this ability is far from being realized in current affective computing, as not all of the attributes are well studied and their…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-30 Yuanchao Li , Peter Bell , Catherine Lai

In affective computing, the task of Emotion Recognition in Conversations (ERC) has emerged as a focal area of research. The primary objective of this task is to predict emotional states within conversations by analyzing multimodal data…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Xiaomin Yu , Feiyang Wang , Ziyue Qiao