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Speaker recognition performance in emotional talking environments is not as high as it is in neutral talking environments. This work focuses on proposing, implementing, and evaluating a new approach to enhance the performance in emotional…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-06-30 Ismail Shahin

Identifying the direction of emotional influence in a dyadic dialogue is of increasing interest in the psychological sciences with applications in psychotherapy, analysis of political interactions, or interpersonal conflict behavior. Facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Maha Shadaydeh , Lea Mueller , Dana Schneider , Martin Thuemmel , Thomas Kessler , Joachim Denzler

Speech emotion recognition (SER), particularly for naturally expressed emotions, remains a challenging computational task. Key challenges include the inherent subjectivity in emotion annotation and the imbalanced distribution of emotion…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Tiantian Feng , Thanathai Lertpetchpun , Dani Byrd , Shrikanth Narayanan

By varying prompts to a large language model, we can elicit the full range of human behaviors in a variety of different scenarios in classic economic games. By analyzing which prompts elicit which behaviors, we can categorize and compare…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Yutong Xie , Qiaozhu Mei , Walter Yuan , Matthew O. Jackson

In speech emotion recognition (SER), using predefined features without considering their practical importance may lead to high dimensional datasets, including redundant and irrelevant information. Consequently, high-dimensional learning…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Alaa Nfissi , Wassim Bouachir , Nizar Bouguila , Brian Mishara

Emotional support is a crucial skill for many real-world scenarios, including caring for the elderly, mental health support, and customer service chats. This paper presents a novel task of empathetic dialog generation with positive emotion…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Shihang Wang , Xinchao Xu , Wenquan Wu , Zheng-Yu Niu , Hua Wu , Haifeng Wang

Large language models (LLMs) have been widely applied to emotional support conversation (ESC). However, complex multi-turn support remains challenging.This is because existing alignment schemes rely on sparse outcome-level signals, thus…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Chenghui Zou , Ning Wang , Tiesunlong Shen , Luwei Xiao , Chuan Ma , Xiangpeng Li , Rui Mao , Erik Cambria

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…

Different from the emotion recognition in individual utterances, we propose a multimodal learning framework using relation and dependencies among the utterances for conversational emotion analysis. The attention mechanism is applied to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Zheng Lian , Jianhua Tao , Bin Liu , Jian Huang

Accurately detecting emotions in conversation is a necessary yet challenging task due to the complexity of emotions and dynamics in dialogues. The emotional state of a speaker can be influenced by many different factors, such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Jiachen Luo , Huy Phan , Joshua Reiss

The purpose of emotion recognition in conversation (ERC) is to identify the emotion category of an utterance based on contextual information. Previous ERC methods relied on simple connections for cross-modal fusion and ignored the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Haoxiang Shi , Xulong Zhang , Ning Cheng , Yong Zhang , Jun Yu , Jing Xiao , Jianzong Wang

Emotional Support Conversation (ESC) aims to assist individuals experiencing distress by generating empathetic and supportive dialogue. While prior work typically assumes that each supporter turn corresponds to a single strategy, real-world…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Jie Zhu , Huaixia Dou , Junhui Li , Lifan Guo , Feng Chen , Jinsong Su , Chi Zhang , Fang Kong

The ability to understand emotions is an essential component of human-like artificial intelligence, as emotions greatly influence human cognition, decision making, and social interactions. In addition to emotion recognition in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Fanfan Wang , Heqing Ma , Jianfei Yu , Rui Xia , Erik Cambria

Recent advances in Talking Head Generation (THG) have achieved impressive lip synchronization and visual quality through diffusion models; yet existing methods struggle to generate emotionally expressive portraits while preserving speaker…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Weipeng Tan , Chuming Lin , Chengming Xu , FeiFan Xu , Xiaobin Hu , Xiaozhong Ji , Junwei Zhu , Chengjie Wang , Yanwei Fu

The recent wave of audio foundation models (FMs) could provide new capabilities for conversational modeling. However, there have been limited efforts to evaluate these audio FMs comprehensively on their ability to have natural and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Siddhant Arora , Zhiyun Lu , Chung-Cheng Chiu , Ruoming Pang , Shinji Watanabe

In the era of advanced artificial intelligence and human-computer interaction, identifying emotions in spoken language is paramount. This research explores the integration of deep learning techniques in speech emotion recognition, offering…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Hanan Hamza , Fiza Gafoor , Fathima Sithara , Gayathri Anil , V. S. Anoop

Messages in human conversations inherently convey emotions. The task of detecting emotions in textual conversations leads to a wide range of applications such as opinion mining in social networks. However, enabling machines to analyze…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Peixiang Zhong , Di Wang , Chunyan Miao

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) has attracted much attention in recent years for its necessity in widespread applications. Existing ERC methods mostly model the self and inter-speaker context separately, posing a major issue for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Chen Liang , Chong Yang , Jing Xu , Juyang Huang , Yongliang Wang , Yang Dong

How do cognitive agents decide what is the relevant information to learn and how goals are selected to gain this knowledge? Cognitive agents need to be motivated to perform any action. We discuss that emotions arise when differences between…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Guido Schillaci , Alejandra Ciria , Bruno Lara