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Due to the complex nature of human emotions and the diversity of emotion representation methods in humans, emotion recognition is a challenging field. In this research, three input modalities, namely text, audio (speech), and video, are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Minoo Shayaninasab , Bagher Babaali

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

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

Emotional Recognition in Conversation (ERC) is valuable for diagnosing health conditions such as autism and depression, and for understanding the emotions of individuals who struggle to express their feelings. Current ERC methods primarily…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Zijian Kang , Yueyang Li , Shengyu Gong , Weiming Zeng , Hongjie Yan , Lingbin Bian , Zhiguo Zhang , Wai Ting Siok , Nizhuan Wang

Emotion Recognition in Conversation (ERC) plays an important role in driving the development of human-machine interaction. Emotions can exist in multiple modalities, and multimodal ERC mainly faces two problems: (1) the noise problem in the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Shihao Zou , Xianying Huang , Xudong Shen

Emotion recognition is a crucial task for human conversation understanding. It becomes more challenging with the notion of multimodal data, e.g., language, voice, and facial expressions. As a typical solution, the global- and the local…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Cam-Van Thi Nguyen , Anh-Tuan Mai , The-Son Le , Hai-Dang Kieu , Duc-Trong Le

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

Speech emotion recognition (SER) is an important part of human-computer interaction, receiving extensive attention from both industry and academia. However, the current research field of SER has long suffered from the following problems: 1)…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Ziyang Ma , Mingjie Chen , Hezhao Zhang , Zhisheng Zheng , Wenxi Chen , Xiquan Li , Jiaxin Ye , Xie Chen , Thomas Hain

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

Emotion Recognition in Conversations (ERC) presents unique challenges, requiring models to capture the temporal flow of multi-turn dialogues and to effectively integrate cues from multiple modalities. We propose Mixture of Speech-Text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Soumya Dutta , Smruthi Balaji , Sriram Ganapathy

The recognition of emotion and dialogue acts enriches conversational analysis and help to build natural dialogue systems. Emotion interpretation makes us understand feelings and dialogue acts reflect the intentions and performative…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Chandrakant Bothe , Cornelius Weber , Sven Magg , Stefan Wermter

Emotion Recognition in Conversation (ERC) aims to detect the emotions of individual utterances within a conversation. Generating efficient and modality-specific representations for each utterance remains a significant challenge. Previous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Jie Li , Shifei Ding , Lili Guo , Xuan Li

The performance of speech emotion recognition (SER) is limited by the insufficient emotion information in unimodal systems and the feature alignment difficulties in multimodal systems. Recently, multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Yiqing Yang , Man-Wai Mak

Emotion Cause Extraction in Conversations (ECEC) aims to extract the utterances which contain the emotional cause in conversations. Most prior research focuses on modelling conversational contexts with sequential encoding, ignoring the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Dexin Kong , Nan Yu , Yun Yuan , Guohong Fu , Chen Gong

Emotion recognition in conversations (ERC), the task of recognizing the emotion of each utterance in a conversation, is crucial for building empathetic machines. Existing studies focus mainly on capturing context- and speaker-sensitive…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Hui Ma , Jian Wang , Hongfei Lin , Bo Zhang , Yijia Zhang , Bo Xu

Emotion recognition in conversations is an important step in various virtual chat bots which require opinion-based feedback, like in social media threads, online support and many more applications. Current Emotion recognition in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Vaibhav Bhat , Anita Yadav , Sonal Yadav , Dhivya Chandrasekaran , Vijay Mago

Multimodal emotion recognition in conversation (ERC) has garnered growing attention from research communities in various fields. In this paper, we propose a Cross-modal Fusion Network with Emotion-Shift Awareness (CFN-ESA) for ERC. Extant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Jiang Li , Xiaoping Wang , Yingjian Liu , Zhigang Zeng

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

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

Emotion Recognition in Conversation (ERC) has attracted widespread attention in the natural language processing field due to its enormous potential for practical applications. Existing ERC methods face challenges in achieving generalization…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Shanglin Lei , Xiaoping Wang , Guanting Dong , Jiang Li , Yingjian Liu