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While pre-trained language models excel at semantic understanding, they often struggle to capture nuanced affective information critical for affective recognition tasks. To address these limitations, we propose a novel framework for…

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Emotion Recognition in Conversation (ERC) aims to detect the emotions of individual utterances within a conversation. Generating efficient and modality-specific representations for each utterance remains a significant challenge. Previous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Jie Li , Shifei Ding , Lili Guo , Xuan Li

This study introduces a novel Supervised Info-enhanced Contrastive Learning framework for EEG based Emotion Recognition (SICLEER). SI-CLEER employs multi-granularity contrastive learning to create robust EEG contextual representations,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Xiang Li , Jian Song , Zhigang Zhao , Chunxiao Wang , Dawei Song , Bin Hu

Image emotion classification (IEC) is a longstanding research field that has received increasing attention with the rapid progress of deep learning. Although recent advances have leveraged the knowledge encoded in pre-trained visual models,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Zibo Zhou , Zhengjun Zhai , Huimin Chen , Wei Dai , Hansen Yang

In-context learning (ICL) achieves remarkable performance in various domains such as knowledge acquisition, commonsense reasoning, and semantic understanding. However, its performance significantly deteriorates for emotion detection tasks,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Zhaochun Ren , Zhou Yang , Chenglong Ye , Yufeng Wang , Haizhou Sun , Chao Chen , Xiaofei Zhu , Yunbing Wu , Xiangwen Liao

Emotion Recognition in Conversations (ERC) is a critical aspect of affective computing, and it has many practical applications in healthcare, education, chatbots, and social media platforms. Earlier approaches for ERC analysis involved…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Gokul S Krishnan , Sarala Padi , Craig S. Greenberg , Balaraman Ravindran , Dinesh Manoch , Ram D. Sriram

Emotion Recognition in Conversations (ERC) has gained increasing attention for developing empathetic machines. Recently, many approaches have been devoted to perceiving conversational context by deep learning models. However, these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Dou Hu , Lingwei Wei , Xiaoyong Huai

Conversational recommender systems (CRSs) are able to elicit user preferences through multi-turn dialogues. They typically incorporate external knowledge and pre-trained language models to capture the dialogue context. Most CRS approaches,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Xiaoyu Zhang , Ruobing Xie , Yougang Lyu , Xin Xin , Pengjie Ren , Mingfei Liang , Bo Zhang , Zhanhui Kang , Maarten de Rijke , Zhaochun Ren

Speaker embeddings carry valuable emotion-related information, which makes them a promising resource for enhancing speech emotion recognition (SER), especially with limited labeled data. Traditionally, it has been assumed that emotion…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-03 Ismail Rasim Ulgen , Zongyang Du , Carlos Busso , Berrak Sisman

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

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

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

Previous works on emotion recognition in conversation (ERC) follow a two-step paradigm, which can be summarized as first producing context-independent features via fine-tuning pretrained language models (PLMs) and then analyzing contextual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Xiangyu Qin , Zhiyu Wu , Jinshi Cui , Tingting Zhang , Yanran Li , Jian Luan , Bin Wang , Li Wang

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

Conversational Causal Emotion Entailment aims to detect causal utterances for a non-neutral targeted utterance from a conversation. In this work, we build conversations as graphs to overcome implicit contextual modelling of the original…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Jiangnan Li , Fandong Meng , Zheng Lin , Rui Liu , Peng Fu , Yanan Cao , Weiping Wang , Jie Zhou

Emotion recognition is an important research direction in artificial intelligence, helping machines understand and adapt to human emotional states. Multimodal electrophysiological(ME) signals, such as EEG, GSR, respiration(Resp), and…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Yunfei Guo , Tao Zhang , Wu Huang

Emotion recognition from multi-modal physiological and behavioral signals plays a pivotal role in affective computing, yet most existing models remain constrained to the prediction of singular emotions in controlled laboratory settings.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Ming Li , Yong-Jin Liu , Fang Liu , Huankun Sheng , Yeying Fan , Yixiang Wei , Minnan Luo , Weizhan Zhang , Wenping Wang

Understanding the process of emotion generation is crucial for analyzing the causes behind emotions. Causal Emotion Entailment (CEE), an emotion-understanding task, aims to identify the causal utterances in a conversation that stimulate the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Zhaopei Huang , Jinming Zhao , Qin Jin

With the extensive accumulation of conversational data on the Internet, emotion recognition in conversations (ERC) has received increasing attention. Previous efforts of this task mainly focus on leveraging contextual and speaker-specific…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Yinyi Wei , Shuaipeng Liu , Hailei Yan , Wei Ye , Tong Mo , Guanglu Wan

It is important for machines to interpret human emotions properly for better human-machine communications, as emotion is an essential part of human-to-human communications. One aspect of emotion is reflected in the language we use. How to…

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