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This paper presents our pioneering effort for emotion recognition in conversation (ERC) with pre-trained language models. Unlike regular documents, conversational utterances appear alternately from different parties and are usually…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Weizhou Shen , Junqing Chen , Xiaojun Quan , Zhixian Xie

The successful emotional conversation system depends on sufficient perception and appropriate expression of emotions. In a real-life conversation, humans firstly instinctively perceive emotions from multi-source information, including the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Yunlong Liang , Fandong Meng , Ying Zhang , Jinan Xu , Yufeng Chen , Jie Zhou

Emotion Recognition in Conversation (ERC) is essential for effective human-machine interaction, aiming to identify speakers' emotional states in multi-turn dialogues. Early text-based methods struggle with complex scenarios like sarcasm…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Linan ZHU , Zihao Zhai , Xiao Han , Yuqian Fu , Xiangfan Chen , Xiangjie Kong , Guojiang Shen

The Emotion Cause Extraction (ECE)} task aims to identify clauses which contain emotion-evoking information for a particular emotion expressed in text. We observe that a widely-used ECE dataset exhibits a bias that the majority of annotated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Hanqi Yan , Lin Gui , Gabriele Pergola , Yulan He

In this paper, we address the task of utterance level emotion recognition in conversations using commonsense knowledge. We propose COSMIC, a new framework that incorporates different elements of commonsense such as mental states, events,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Deepanway Ghosal , Navonil Majumder , Alexander Gelbukh , Rada Mihalcea , Soujanya Poria

Despite strong recent progress in Emotion Recognition in Conversation (ERC), two gaps remain: we lack clear understanding of which modeling choices materially affect performance, and we have limited linguistic analysis linking recognition…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Cheonkam Jeong , Adeline Nyamathi

Recent years have witnessed great progress on building emotional chatbots. Tremendous methods have been proposed for chatbots to generate responses with given emotions. However, the emotion changes of the user during the conversation has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-19 Hao Jiang , Yutao Zhu , Xinyu Zhang , Zhicheng Dou , Pan Du , Te Pi , Yantao Jia

Emojis are a succinct form of language which can express concrete meanings, emotions, and intentions. Emojis also carry signals that can be used to better understand communicative intent. They have become a ubiquitous part of our daily…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Weicheng Ma , Ruibo Liu , Lili Wang , Soroush Vosoughi

Emotional state of a speaker is found to have significant effect in speech production, which can deviate speech from that arising from neutral state. This makes identifying speakers with different emotions a challenging task as generally…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-09 Biswajit Dev Sarma , Rohan Kumar Das

Emotion dynamics modeling is a significant task in emotion recognition in conversation. It aims to predict conversational emotions when building empathetic dialogue systems. Existing studies mainly develop models based on Recurrent Neural…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Haiqin Yang , Jianping Shen

Recent progress in audio-language modeling, such as automated audio captioning, has benefited from training on synthetic data generated with the aid of large-language models. However, such approaches for environmental sound captioning have…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Mithun Manivannan , Vignesh Nethrapalli , Mark Cartwright

There are two paradigms of emotion representation, categorical labeling and dimensional description in continuous space. Therefore, the emotion recognition task can be treated as a classification or regression. The main aim of this study is…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Meysam Shamsi , Marie Tahon

Achieving empathy is a crucial step toward humanized dialogue systems. Current approaches for empathetic dialogue generation mainly perceive an emotional label to generate an empathetic response conditioned on it, which simply treat…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Fengyi Fu , Lei Zhang , Quan Wang , Zhendong Mao

In our everyday lives and social interactions we often try to perceive the emotional states of people. There has been a lot of research in providing machines with a similar capacity of recognizing emotions. From a computer vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Ronak Kosti , Jose M. Alvarez , Adria Recasens , Agata Lapedriza

Sentiment and emotion understanding are essential to applications such as human-computer interaction and depression detection. While Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) demonstrate robust general capabilities, they face considerable…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Ao Li , Longwei Xu , Chen Ling , Jinghui Zhang , Pengwei Wang

Automatic emotion recognition plays a key role in computer-human interaction as it has the potential to enrich the next-generation artificial intelligence with emotional intelligence. It finds applications in customer and/or representative…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Sarala Padi , Seyed Omid Sadjadi , Dinesh Manocha , Ram D. Sriram

Emotion recognition has the potential to play a pivotal role in enhancing human-computer interaction by enabling systems to accurately interpret and respond to human affect. Yet, capturing emotions in face-to-face contexts remains…

Non-speech emotion recognition has a wide range of applications including healthcare, crime control and rescue, and entertainment, to name a few. Providing these applications using edge computing has great potential, however, recent studies…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Ibrahim Malik , Siddique Latif , Sanaullah Manzoor , Muhammad Usama , Junaid Qadir , Raja Jurdak

Emotions are one of the important components of the human being, thus they are a valuable part of daily activities such as interaction with people, decision making and learning. For this reason, it is important to detect, recognize and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Ricardo Vasquez , Diego Riofrío-Luzcando , Joe Carrion-Jumbo , Cesar Guevara

The increasing use of dialogue agents makes it extremely desirable for them to understand and acknowledge the implied emotions to respond like humans with empathy. Chatbots using traditional techniques analyze emotions based on the context…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Akhilesh Ravi , Amit Yadav , Jainish Chauhan , Jatin Dholakia , Naman Jain , Mayank Singh