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Current studies of bias in NLP rely mainly on identifying (unwanted or negative) bias towards a specific demographic group. While this has led to progress recognizing and mitigating negative bias, and having a clear notion of the targeted…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Venkata S Govindarajan , Katherine Atwell , Barea Sinno , Malihe Alikhani , David I. Beaver , Junyi Jessy Li

The majority of current systems for end-to-end dialog generation focus on response quality without an explicit control over the affective content of the responses. In this paper, we present an affect-driven dialog system, which generates…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Pierre Colombo , Wojciech Witon , Ashutosh Modi , James Kennedy , Mubbasir Kapadia

Each utterance in multi-turn empathetic dialogues has features such as emotion, keywords, and utterance-level meaning. Feature transitions between utterances occur naturally. However, existing approaches fail to perceive the transitions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Wongyu Kim , Youbin Ahn , Donghyun Kim , Kyong-Ho Lee

Emotion recognition in conversation (ERC) aims to analyze the speaker's state and identify their emotion in the conversation. Recent works in ERC focus on context modeling but ignore the representation of contextual emotional tendency. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Zaijing Li , Fengxiao Tang , Ming Zhao , Yusen Zhu

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

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

The task of emotion recognition in conversations (ERC) benefits from the availability of multiple modalities, as provided, for example, in the video-based Multimodal EmotionLines Dataset (MELD). However, only a few research approaches use…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-16 Hugo Carneiro , Cornelius Weber , Stefan Wermter

Emotional talking-head generation has emerged as a pivotal research area at the intersection of computer vision and multimodal artificial intelligence, with its core value lying in enhancing human-computer interaction through immersive and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Hanlei Shi , Leyuan Qu , Yu Liu , Di Gao , Yuhua Zheng , Taihao Li

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

Recognizing emotions in conversations is a challenging task due to the presence of contextual dependencies governed by self- and inter-personal influences. Recent approaches have focused on modeling these dependencies primarily via…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Devamanyu Hazarika , Soujanya Poria , Roger Zimmermann , Rada Mihalcea

We address the problem of recognizing emotion cause in conversations, define two novel sub-tasks of this problem, and provide a corresponding dialogue-level dataset, along with strong Transformer-based baselines. The dataset is available at…

Emotions play a critical role in our everyday lives by altering how we perceive, process and respond to our environment. Affective computing aims to instill in computers the ability to detect and act on the emotions of human actors. A core…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-31 Connor T. Heaton , David M. Schwartz

Emotion Recognition in Conversation (ERC) involves detecting the underlying emotion behind each utterance within a conversation. Effectively generating representations for utterances remains a significant challenge in this task. Recent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Fangxu Yu , Junjie Guo , Zhen Wu , Xinyu Dai

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

Emotion recognition in multi-speaker conversations faces significant challenges due to speaker ambiguity and severe class imbalance. We propose a novel framework that addresses these issues through three key innovations: (1) a speaker…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Xiao Li , Kotaro Funakoshi , Manabu Okumura

Datasets with induced emotion labels are scarce but of utmost importance for many NLP tasks. We present a new, automated method for collecting texts along with their induced reaction labels. The method exploits the online use of reaction…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Boaz Shmueli , Soumya Ray , Lun-Wei Ku

Emotion Recognition in Conversations (ERC) is essential for building empathetic human-machine systems. Existing studies on ERC primarily focus on summarizing the context information in a conversation, however, ignoring the differentiated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Yuzhao Mao , Qi Sun , Guang Liu , Xiaojie Wang , Weiguo Gao , Xuan Li , Jianping Shen

Reasoning on Temporal Knowledge Graphs (TKGs) is essential for predicting future events and time-aware facts. While existing methods are effective at capturing relational dynamics, their performance is limited by a closed-world assumption,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Ze Zhao , Yuhui He , Lyuwen Wu , Gu Tang , Bin Lu , Xiaoying Gan , Luoyi Fu , Xinbing Wang , Chenghu Zhou

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

Emotions that somebody develops based on an argument do not only depend on the argument itself - they are also influenced by a subjective evaluation of the argument's potential impact on the self. For instance, an argument to ban plastic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Lynn Greschner , Sabine Weber , Roman Klinger