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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

Obtaining large, human labelled speech datasets to train models for emotion recognition is a notoriously challenging task, hindered by annotation cost and label ambiguity. In this work, we consider the task of learning embeddings for speech…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-17 Samuel Albanie , Arsha Nagrani , Andrea Vedaldi , Andrew Zisserman

Word embeddings are one of the most useful tools in any modern natural language processing expert's toolkit. They contain various types of information about each word which makes them the best way to represent the terms in any NLP task. But…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-20 Armin Seyeditabari , Narges Tabari , Shafie Gholizade , Wlodek Zadrozny

Emotion recognition (ER) is an important task in Natural Language Processing (NLP), due to its high impact in real-world applications from health and well-being to author profiling, consumer analysis and security. Current approaches to ER,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Hassan Alhuzali , Sophia Ananiadou

Sentiment analysis in low-resource languages suffers from a lack of annotated corpora to estimate high-performing models. Machine translation and bilingual word embeddings provide some relief through cross-lingual sentiment approaches.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-24 Jeremy Barnes , Roman Klinger , Sabine Schulte im Walde

Whilst a majority of affective computing research focuses on inferring emotions, examining mood or understanding the \textit{mood-emotion interplay} has received significantly less attention. Building on prior work, we (a) deduce and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Soujanya Narayana , Ibrahim Radwan , Ravikiran Parameshwara , Iman Abbasnejad , Akshay Asthana , Ramanathan Subramanian , Roland Goecke

In the past years, sentiment analysis has increasingly shifted attention to representational frameworks more expressive than semantic polarity (being positive, negative or neutral). However, these richer formats (like Basic Emotions or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Sven Buechel , Udo Hahn

Recognizing emotions in spoken communication is crucial for advanced human-machine interaction. Current emotion detection methodologies often display biases when applied cross-corpus. To address this, our study amalgamates 16 diverse…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Mohamed Osman , Tamer Nadeem , Ghada Khoriba

Nowadays, an abundance of short text is being generated that uses nonstandard writing styles influenced by regional languages. Such informal and code-switched content are under-resourced in terms of labeled datasets and language models even…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Muhammad Haroon Shakeel , Asim Karim

Automatic emotion recognition is an active research topic with wide range of applications. Due to the high manual annotation cost and inevitable label ambiguity, the development of emotion recognition dataset is limited in both scale and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-08 Jingjun Liang , Ruichen Li , Qin Jin

Word embeddings have been widely used in sentiment classification because of their efficacy for semantic representations of words. Given reviews from different domains, some existing methods for word embeddings exploit sentiment…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-11 Bei Shi , Zihao Fu , Lidong Bing , Wai Lam

Although the terms mood and emotion are closely related and often used interchangeably, they are distinguished based on their duration, intensity and attribution. To date, hardly any computational models have (a) examined mood recognition,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Soujanya Narayana , Ramanathan Subramanian , Ibrahim Radwan , Roland Goecke

Multi-label sentiment classification plays a vital role in natural language processing by detecting multiple emotions within a single text. However, existing datasets like GoEmotions often suffer from severe class imbalance, which hampers…

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We propose a novel approach to multimodal sentiment analysis using deep neural networks combining visual analysis and natural language processing. Our goal is different than the standard sentiment analysis goal of predicting whether a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-28 Anthony Hu , Seth Flaxman

Representation learning for speech emotion recognition is challenging due to labeled data sparsity issue and lack of gold standard references. In addition, there is much variability from input speech signals, human subjective perception of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-13 Haoqi Li , Ming Tu , Jing Huang , Shrikanth Narayanan , Panayiotis Georgiou

Traditionally, in paralinguistic analysis for emotion detection from speech, emotions have been identified with discrete or dimensional (continuous-valued) labels. Accordingly, models that have been proposed for emotion detection use one or…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Roshan Sharma , Hira Dhamyal , Bhiksha Raj , Rita Singh

When performing Polarity Detection for different words in a sentence, we need to look at the words around to understand the sentiment. Massively pretrained language models like BERT can encode not only just the words in a document but also…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Natesh Reddy , Pranaydeep Singh , Muktabh Mayank Srivastava

The need for emotional inference from text continues to diversify as more and more disciplines integrate emotions into their theories and applications. These needs include inferring different emotion types, handling multiple languages, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Georgios Chochlakis , Gireesh Mahajan , Sabyasachee Baruah , Keith Burghardt , Kristina Lerman , Shrikanth Narayanan

Multi-modal emotion recognition has garnered increasing attention as it plays a significant role in human-computer interaction (HCI) in recent years. Since different discrete emotions may exist at the same time, compared with single-class…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Chuhang Zheng , Chunwei Tian , Jie Wen , Daoqiang Zhang , Qi Zhu

While pre-trained language models excel at semantic understanding, they often struggle to capture nuanced affective information critical for affective recognition tasks. To address these limitations, we propose a novel framework for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Seungah Son , Andrez Saurez , Dongsoo Har