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Words play a central role in how we express ourselves. Lexicons of word-emotion associations are widely used in research and real-world applications for sentiment analysis, tracking emotions associated with products and policies, studying…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Saif M. Mohammad

Empathy, which is widely used in psychological counselling, is a key trait of everyday human conversations. Equipped with commonsense knowledge, current approaches to empathetic response generation focus on capturing implicit emotion within…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Lanrui Wang , Jiangnan Li , Zheng Lin , Fandong Meng , Chenxu Yang , Weiping Wang , Jie Zhou

In conflict, people use emotional expressions to shape their counterparts' thoughts, feelings, and actions. This paper explores whether automatic text emotion recognition offers insight into this influence in the context of dispute…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Sushrita Rakshit , James Hale , Kushal Chawla , Jeanne M. Brett , Jonathan Gratch

Understanding and predicting the emotional trajectory in multi-party multi-turn conversations is of great significance. Such information can be used, for example, to generate empathetic response in human-machine interaction or to inform…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Enas Altarawneh , Ameeta Agrawal , Michael Jenkin , Manos Papagelis

Conversations emerge as the primary media for exchanging ideas and conceptions. From the listener's perspective, identifying various affective qualities, such as sarcasm, humour, and emotions, is paramount for comprehending the true…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Shivani Kumar , Ishani Mondal , Md Shad Akhtar , Tanmoy Chakraborty

Emotional expressions are the behaviors that communicate our emotional state or attitude to others. They are expressed through verbal and non-verbal communication. Complex human behavior can be understood by studying physical features from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Liam Schoneveld , Alice Othmani , Hazem Abdelkawy

Personality is a fundamental construct in psychology, reflecting an individual's behavior, thinking, and emotional patterns. Previous researches have made some progress in personality detection, primarily by utilizing the whole text to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Zheng Li , Dawei Zhu , Qilong Ma , Weimin Xiong , Sujian Li

Emotion detection is a critical technology extensively employed in diverse fields. While the incorporation of commonsense knowledge has proven beneficial for existing emotion detection methods, dialogue-based emotion detection encounters…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Yuting Su , Yichen Wei , Weizhi Nie , Sicheng Zhao , Anan Liu

Human behavior refers to the way humans act and interact. Understanding human behavior is a cornerstone of observational practice, especially in psychotherapy. An important cue of behavior analysis is the dynamical changes of emotions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-10 Haoqi Li , Brian Baucom , Panayiotis Georgiou

This paper investigates the causality in the decision making of movie recommendations through the users' affective profiles. We advocate a method of assigning emotional tags to a movie by the auto-detection of the affective features in the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-02-12 John Kalung Leung , Igor Griva , William G. Kennedy

We investigate hierarchical emotion distribution (ED) for achieving multi-level quantitative control of emotion rendering in text-to-speech synthesis (TTS). We introduce a novel multi-step hierarchical ED prediction module that quantifies…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Sho Inoue , Kun Zhou , Shuai Wang , Haizhou Li

Emotion plays an important role in human cognition and performance. Motivated by this, we investigate whether analogous emotional signals can shape the behavior of large language models (LLMs) and agents. Existing emotion-aware studies…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Moran Sun , Tianlin Li , Yuwei Zheng , Zhenhong Zhou , Aishan Liu , Xianglong Liu , Yang Liu

Conversational agents (CAs) are increasingly embedded in daily life, yet their ability to navigate user emotions efficiently is still evolving. This study investigates how users with varying traits -- gender, personality, and cultural…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Yuchong Zhang , Yong Ma , Di Fu , Stephanie Zubicueta Portales , Morten Fjeld , Danica Kragic

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

Empathy is a vital factor that contributes to mutual understanding, and joint problem-solving. In recent years, a growing number of studies have recognized the benefits of empathy and started to incorporate empathy in conversational…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Aravind Sesagiri Raamkumar , Yinping Yang

Emotional voice conversion (EVC) traditionally targets the transformation of spoken utterances from one emotional state to another, with previous research mainly focusing on discrete emotion categories. This paper departs from the norm by…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-19 Kun Zhou , Berrak Sisman , Carlos Busso , Bin Ma , Haizhou Li

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

End-to-end learning framework is useful for building dialog systems for its simplicity in training and efficiency in model updating. However, current end-to-end approaches only consider user semantic inputs in learning and under-utilize…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-04 Weiyan Shi , Zhou Yu

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

Recent advances in neurosciences and psychology have provided evidence that affective phenomena pervade intelligence at many levels, being inseparable from the cognitionaction loop. Perception, attention, memory, learning, decisionmaking,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2008-09-30 Luis Paulo Reis , Daria Barteneva , Nuno Lau