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Existing Causal-Why Video Question Answering (VideoQA) models often struggle with higher-order reasoning, relying on opaque, monolithic pipelines that entangle video understanding, causal inference, and answer generation. These black-box…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Paritosh Parmar , Eric Peh , Basura Fernando

Emotion-Cause Pair Extraction (ECPE) is a complex yet popular area in Natural Language Processing due to its importance and potential applications in various domains. In this report , we aim to present our work in ECPE in the domain of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Arpit Mittal , Jeel Tejaskumar Vaishnav , Aishwarya Kaliki , Nathan Johns , Wyatt Pease

Conversational Speech Synthesis (CSS) aims to accurately express an utterance with the appropriate prosody and emotional inflection within a conversational setting. While recognising the significance of CSS task, the prior studies have not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Rui Liu , Yifan Hu , Yi Ren , Xiang Yin , Haizhou Li

Conversational Causal Emotion Entailment (C2E2) is a task that aims at recognizing the causes corresponding to a target emotion in a conversation. The order of utterances in the conversation affects the causal inference. However, most…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Xiaojie Gu , Renze Lou , Lin Sun , Shangxin Li

Emotional Support Conversation (ESC) plays a vital role in alleviating psychological stress and providing emotional value through dialogue. While recent studies have largely focused on data augmentation and synthetic corpus construction,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Jie Zhu , Yuanchen Zhou , Shuo Jiang , Junhui Li , Lifan Guo , Feng Chen , Chi Zhang , Fang Kong

This paper presents an emotion-regularized conditional variational autoencoder (Emo-CVAE) model for generating emotional conversation responses. In conventional CVAE-based emotional response generation, emotion labels are simply used as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Yu-Ping Ruan , Zhen-Hua Ling

The emotion recognition in conversation (ERC) task aims to predict the emotion label of an utterance in a conversation. Since the dependencies between speakers are complex and dynamic, which consist of intra- and inter-speaker dependencies,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Yinan Bao , Qianwen Ma , Lingwei Wei , Wei Zhou , Songlin Hu

The task of Emotion-Cause Pair Extraction (ECPE) aims to extract all potential clause-pairs of emotions and their corresponding causes in a document. Unlike the more well-studied task of Emotion Cause Extraction (ECE), ECPE does not require…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-04 Aaditya Singh , Shreeshail Hingane , Saim Wani , Ashutosh Modi

In this multi-task learning study on simultaneous analysis of emotions and their underlying causes in conversational contexts, deep neural network methods were employed to effectively process and train large labeled datasets. However, these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-19 J. K. Lee , T. M. Chung

Conversational Speech Synthesis (CSS) aims to align synthesized speech with the emotional and stylistic context of user-agent interactions to achieve empathy. Current generative CSS models face interpretability limitations due to…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Yifan Hu , Rui Liu , Yi Ren , Xiang Yin , Haizhou Li

Emotional language generation is one of the keys to human-like artificial intelligence. Humans use different type of emotions depending on the situation of the conversation. Emotions also play an important role in mediating the engagement…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Sashank Santhanam , Samira Shaikh

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 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

Emotion significantly impacts our daily behaviors and interactions. While recent generative AI models, such as large language models, have shown impressive performance in various tasks, it remains unclear whether they truly comprehend…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Cheng Li , Jindong Wang , Yixuan Zhang , Kaijie Zhu , Xinyi Wang , Wenxin Hou , Jianxun Lian , Fang Luo , Qiang Yang , Xing Xie

Empathy, which is widely used in psychological counselling, is a key trait of everyday human conversations. Equipped with commonsense knowledge, current approaches to empathetic response generation focus on capturing implicit emotion within…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Lanrui Wang , Jiangnan Li , Zheng Lin , Fandong Meng , Chenxu Yang , Weiping Wang , Jie Zhou

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 Conversation (ERC) is a crucial task for understanding human emotions and enabling natural human-computer interaction. Although Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently shown great potential in this field, their…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Xinran Li , Yu Liu , Jiaqi Qiao , Xiujuan Xu

Emotional Support Conversation aims at reducing the seeker's emotional distress through supportive response. Existing approaches have two limitations: (1) They ignore the emotion causes of the distress, which is important for fine-grained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Wei Chen , Hengxu Lin , Qun Zhang , Xiaojin Zhang , Xiang Bai , Xuanjing Huang , Zhongyu Wei

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

The purpose of emotion-cause pair extraction is to extract the pair of emotion clauses and cause clauses. On the one hand, the existing methods do not take fully into account the relationship between the emotion extraction of two auxiliary…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Mingrui Fu , Weijiang Li