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A key challenge for Emotion Recognition in Conversations (ERC) is to distinguish semantically similar emotions. Some works utilise Supervised Contrastive Learning (SCL) which uses categorical emotion labels as supervision signals and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Kailai Yang , Tianlin Zhang , Hassan Alhuzali , Sophia Ananiadou

Deep learning models perform best with abundant, high-quality labels, yet such conditions are rarely achievable in EEG-based emotion recognition. Electroencephalogram (EEG) signals are easily corrupted by artifacts and individual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Hyo-Jeong Jang , Hye-Bin Shin , Kang Yin

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) 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

Creating agents that can both appropriately respond to conversations and understand complex human linguistic tendencies and social cues has been a long standing challenge in the NLP community. A recent pillar of research revolves around…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Eriq Augustine , Pegah Jandaghi , Alon Albalak , Connor Pryor , Charles Dickens , William Wang , Lise Getoor

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

Emotion cause identification aims at identifying the potential causes that lead to a certain emotion expression in text. Several techniques including rule based methods and traditional machine learning methods have been proposed to address…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Zixiang Ding , Huihui He , Mengran Zhang , Rui Xia

Emotion Recognition in Conversations (ERC) is an important and active research area. Recent work has shown the benefits of using multiple modalities (e.g., text, audio, and video) for the ERC task. In a conversation, participants tend to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Harsh Agarwal , Keshav Bansal , Abhinav Joshi , Ashutosh Modi

Emotion Recognition in Conversations (ERC) is hard because discriminative evidence is sparse, localized, and often asynchronous across modalities. We center ERC on emotion hotspots and present a unified model that detects per-utterance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Yu Liu , Hanlei Shi , Haoxun Li , Yuqing Sun , Yuxuan Ding , Linlin Gong , Leyuan Qu , Taihao Li

Speech emotion recognition is an important component of any human centered system. But speech characteristics produced and perceived by a person can be influenced by a multitude of reasons, both desirable such as emotion, and undesirable…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Mimansa Jaiswal , Emily Mower Provost

Emotion recognition in conversation (ERC), the task of discerning human emotions for each utterance within a conversation, has garnered significant attention in human-computer interaction systems. Previous ERC studies focus on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Yumeng Fu , Junjie Wu , Zhongjie Wang , Meishan Zhang , Lili Shan , Yulin Wu , Bingquan Li

When recognizing emotions from speech, we encounter two common problems: how to optimally capture emotion-relevant information from the speech signal and how to best quantify or categorize the noisy subjective emotion labels.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-04 Sofoklis Kakouros , Themos Stafylakis , Ladislav Mosner , Lukas Burget

Speech emotion recognition (SER) has traditionally relied on categorical or dimensional labels. However, this technique is limited in representing both the diversity and interpretability of emotions. To overcome this limitation, we focus on…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-19 Ryotaro Nagase , Ryoichi Takashima , Yoichi Yamashita

Speech emotion recognition is the task of recognizing the speaker's emotional state given a recording of their utterance. While most of the current approaches focus on inferring emotion from isolated utterances, we argue that this is not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Raghavendra Pappagari , Piotr Żelasko , Jesús Villalba , Laureano Moro-Velazquez , Najim Dehak

Acoustically expressed emotions can make communication with a robot more efficient. Detecting emotions like anger could provide a clue for the robot indicating unsafe/undesired situations. Recently, several deep neural network-based models…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-04-12 Egor Lakomkin , Mohammad Ali Zamani , Cornelius Weber , Sven Magg , Stefan Wermter

Emotion recognition is a critical component of affective computing. Training accurate machine learning models for emotion recognition typically requires a large amount of labeled data. Due to the subtleness and complexity of emotions,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Yifan Xu , Xue Jiang , Dongrui Wu

Over the past two decades, speech emotion recognition (SER) has received growing attention. To train SER systems, researchers collect emotional speech databases annotated by crowdsourced or in-house raters who select emotions from…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-08 Huang-Cheng Chou , Chi-Chun Lee

Human emotion is expressed in many communication modalities and media formats and so their computational study is equally diversified into natural language processing, audio signal analysis, computer vision, etc. Similarly, the large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Sven Buechel , Udo Hahn

Spontaneous speech emotion data usually contain perceptual grades where graders assign emotion score after listening to the speech files. Such perceptual grades introduce uncertainty in labels due to grader opinion variation. Grader…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Vikramjit Mitra , Amrit Romana , Dung T. Tran , Erdrin Azemi

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