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Self-annotation is the gold standard for collecting affective state labels in affective computing. Existing methods typically rely on full annotation, requiring users to continuously label affective states across entire sessions. While this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Jaeyoung Moon , Youjin Choi , Yucheon Park , David Melhart , Georgios N. Yannakakis , Kyung-Joong Kim

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

Pre-trained model representations have demonstrated state-of-the-art performance in speech recognition, natural language processing, and other applications. Speech models, such as Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-07 Vikramjit Mitra , Vasudha Kowtha , Hsiang-Yun Sherry Chien , Erdrin Azemi , Carlos Avendano

Speech Emotion Recognition models typically use single categorical labels, overlooking the inherent ambiguity of human emotions. Ambiguous Emotion Recognition addresses this by representing emotions as probability distributions, but…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-22 Wenda Zhang , Hongyu Jin , Siyi Wang , Zhiqiang Wei , Ting Dang

Movie story analysis requires understanding characters' emotions and mental states. Towards this goal, we formulate emotion understanding as predicting a diverse and multi-label set of emotions at the level of a movie scene and for each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Dhruv Srivastava , Aditya Kumar Singh , Makarand Tapaswi

Recent language models can generate interesting and grammatically correct text in story generation but often lack plot development and long-term coherence. This paper experiments with a latent vector planning approach based on a TD-VAE…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-15 David Wilmot , Frank Keller

Task-oriented conversational datasets often lack topic variability and linguistic diversity. However, with the advent of Large Language Models (LLMs) pretrained on extensive, multilingual and diverse text data, these limitations seem…

Psychological studies observe that emotions are rarely expressed in isolation and are typically influenced by the surrounding context. While recent studies effectively harness uni- and multimodal cues for emotion inference, hardly any study…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Soujanya Narayana , Ibrahim Radwan , Ramanathan Subramanian , Roland Goecke

The ability of an intelligent environment to connect and adapt to real internal sates, needs and behaviors' meaning of humans can be made possible by considering users' emotional states as contextual parameters. In this paper, we build on…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2009-12-10 Nevin Vunka Jungum , Eric Laurent

Multimodal emotion recognition is an important research topic in artificial intelligence, whose main goal is to integrate multimodal clues to identify human emotional states. Current works generally assume accurate labels for benchmark…

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

One of the problems with automated audio captioning (AAC) is the indeterminacy in word selection corresponding to the audio event/scene. Since one acoustic event/scene can be described with several words, it results in a combinatorial…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-11 Yuma Koizumi , Ryo Masumura , Kyosuke Nishida , Masahiro Yasuda , Shoichiro Saito

Sentiment Analysis is widely used to quantify sentiment in text, but its application to literary texts poses unique challenges due to figurative language, stylistic ambiguity, as well as sentiment evocation strategies. Traditional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Laurits Lyngbaek , Pascale Feldkamp , Yuri Bizzoni , Kristoffer Nielbo , Kenneth Enevoldsen

Automatic image captioning has recently approached human-level performance due to the latest advances in computer vision and natural language understanding. However, most of the current models can only generate plain factual descriptions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-31 Quanzeng You , Hailin Jin , Jiebo Luo

Automatic detection and tracking of emotional states has the potential for helping individuals with various mental health conditions. While previous studies have captured physiological signals using wearable devices in laboratory settings,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-12 Michal K. Grzeszczyk , Anna Lisowska , Arkadiusz Sitek , Aneta Lisowska

An automated metric to evaluate dialogue quality is vital for optimizing data driven dialogue management. The common approach of relying on explicit user feedback during a conversation is intrusive and sparse. Current models to estimate…

In this project, we have investigated the use of advanced machine learning methods, specifically fine-tuned large language models, for pre-annotating data for a lexical extension task, namely adding descriptive words (verbs) to an existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Jana Straková , Eva Fučíková , Jan Hajič , Zdeňka Urešová

Emotions widely affect human decision-making. This fact is taken into account by affective computing with the goal of tailoring decision support to the emotional states of individuals. However, the accurate recognition of emotions within…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Bernhard Kratzwald , Suzana Ilic , Mathias Kraus , Stefan Feuerriegel , Helmut Prendinger

Advances in neural variational inference have facilitated the learning of powerful directed graphical models with continuous latent variables, such as variational autoencoders. The hope is that such models will learn to represent rich,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Iulian V. Serban , Alexander G. Ororbia , Joelle Pineau , Aaron Courville

Understanding the nuances of speech emotion dataset curation and labeling is essential for assessing speech emotion recognition (SER) model potential in real-world applications. Most training and evaluation datasets contain acted or…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-17 Amrit Romana , Jaya Narain , Tien Dung Tran , Andrea Davis , Jason Fong , Ramya Rasipuram , Vikramjit Mitra