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Emotion Recognition in Conversation (ERC) is critical for enabling natural human-machine interactions. However, existing methods predominantly employ categorical or dimensional emotion annotations, which often fail to adequately represent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yoshiki Tanaka , Ryuichi Uehara , Koji Inoue , Michimasa Inaba

Emotion Recognition in Conversations (ERC) is a key step towards successful human-machine interaction. While the field has seen tremendous advancement in the last few years, new applications and implementation scenarios present novel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Patrícia Pereira , Helena Moniz , Joao Paulo Carvalho

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

Emotion recognition in conversations (ERC) is challenging due to the multimodal nature of the emotion expression. In this paper, we propose to pretrain a text-based recognition model from unsupervised speech transcripts with LLM guidance.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-22 Soumya Dutta , Sriram Ganapathy

Current Emotion Recognition in Conversation (ERC) research follows a closed-domain assumption. However, there is no clear consensus on emotion classification in psychology, which presents a challenge for models when it comes to recognizing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Kun Peng , Cong Cao , Hao Peng , Guanlin Wu , Zhifeng Hao , Lei Jiang , Yanbing Liu , Philip S. Yu

Emotion recognition in conversation (ERC) aims to detect the emotion for each utterance in a given conversation. The newly proposed ERC models have leveraged pre-trained language models (PLMs) with the paradigm of pre-training and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Jingjie Yi , Deqing Yang , Siyu Yuan , Caiyan Cao , Zhiyao Zhang , Yanghua Xiao

Emotion is intrinsic to humans and consequently emotion understanding is a key part of human-like artificial intelligence (AI). Emotion recognition in conversation (ERC) is becoming increasingly popular as a new research frontier in natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-09 Soujanya Poria , Navonil Majumder , Rada Mihalcea , Eduard Hovy

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

Automatic emotion recognition in conversation (ERC) is crucial for emotion-aware conversational artificial intelligence. This paper proposes a distribution-based framework that formulates ERC as a sequence-to-sequence problem for emotion…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Wen Wu , Chao Zhang , Philip C. Woodland

The purpose of emotion recognition in conversation (ERC) is to identify the emotion category of an utterance based on contextual information. Previous ERC methods relied on simple connections for cross-modal fusion and ignored the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Haoxiang Shi , Xulong Zhang , Ning Cheng , Yong Zhang , Jun Yu , Jing Xiao , Jianzong Wang

Emotion Recognition in Conversations (ERC) is a critical aspect of affective computing, and it has many practical applications in healthcare, education, chatbots, and social media platforms. Earlier approaches for ERC analysis involved…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Gokul S Krishnan , Sarala Padi , Craig S. Greenberg , Balaraman Ravindran , Dinesh Manoch , Ram D. Sriram

Understanding emotions during conversation is a fundamental aspect of human communication, driving NLP research for Emotion Recognition in Conversation (ERC). While considerable research has focused on discerning emotions of individual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Shivani Kumar , Ramaneswaran S , Md Shad Akhtar , Tanmoy Chakraborty

Previous works on emotion recognition in conversation (ERC) follow a two-step paradigm, which can be summarized as first producing context-independent features via fine-tuning pretrained language models (PLMs) and then analyzing contextual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Xiangyu Qin , Zhiyu Wu , Jinshi Cui , Tingting Zhang , Yanran Li , Jian Luan , Bin Wang , Li Wang

Emotion recognition in conversation (ERC) aims to analyze the speaker's state and identify their emotion in the conversation. Recent works in ERC focus on context modeling but ignore the representation of contextual emotional tendency. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Zaijing Li , Fengxiao Tang , Ming Zhao , Yusen Zhu

The field of emotion recognition of conversation (ERC) has been focusing on separating sentence feature encoding and context modeling, lacking exploration in generative paradigms based on unified designs. In this study, we propose a novel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Shanglin Lei , Guanting Dong , Xiaoping Wang , Keheng Wang , Runqi Qiao , Sirui Wang

With the extensive accumulation of conversational data on the Internet, emotion recognition in conversations (ERC) has received increasing attention. Previous efforts of this task mainly focus on leveraging contextual and speaker-specific…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Yinyi Wei , Shuaipeng Liu , Hailei Yan , Wei Ye , Tong Mo , Guanglu Wan

Emotion Recognition in Conversation (ERC) is a more challenging task than conventional text emotion recognition. It can be regarded as a personalized and interactive emotion recognition task, which is supposed to consider not only the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Jiangnan Li , Zheng Lin , Peng Fu , Qingyi Si , Weiping Wang

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

Emotion recognition in conversations (ERC) focuses on identifying emotion shifts within interactions, representing a significant step toward advancing machine intelligence. However, ERC data remains scarce, and existing datasets face…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Burak Can Kaplan , Hugo Cesar De Castro Carneiro , Stefan Wermter

Utterance-level emotion recognition (ULER) is a significant research topic for understanding human behaviors and developing empathetic chatting machines in the artificial intelligence area. Unlike traditional text classification problem,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Wenxiang Jiao , Michael R. Lyu , Irwin King
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