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Emotion recognition in conversations is a challenging task that has recently gained popularity due to its potential applications. Until now, however, a large-scale multimodal multi-party emotional conversational database containing more…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Soujanya Poria , Devamanyu Hazarika , Navonil Majumder , Gautam Naik , Erik Cambria , Rada Mihalcea

In human-computer interaction, it is crucial for agents to respond to human by understanding their emotions. Unraveling the causes of emotions is more challenging. A new task named Multimodal Emotion-Cause Pair Extraction in Conversations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Shen Zhang , Haojie Zhang , Jing Zhang , Xudong Zhang , Yimeng Zhuang , Jinting Wu

Efficiently capturing consistent and complementary semantic features in a multimodal conversation context is crucial for Multimodal Emotion Recognition in Conversation (MERC). Existing methods mainly use graph structures to model dialogue…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Tao Meng , Fuchen Zhang , Yuntao Shou , Wei Ai , Nan Yin , Keqin Li

Emotion Recognition in Conversations (ERC) has considerable prospects for developing empathetic machines. For multimodal ERC, it is vital to understand context and fuse modality information in conversations. Recent graph-based fusion…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Dou Hu , Xiaolong Hou , Lingwei Wei , Lianxin Jiang , Yang Mo

Human communication is multimodal in nature; it is through multiple modalities such as language, voice, and facial expressions, that opinions and emotions are expressed. Data in this domain exhibits complex multi-relational and temporal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Jianing Yang , Yongxin Wang , Ruitao Yi , Yuying Zhu , Azaan Rehman , Amir Zadeh , Soujanya Poria , Louis-Philippe Morency

Multimodal machine translation and textual chat translation have received considerable attention in recent years. Although the conversation in its natural form is usually multimodal, there still lacks work on multimodal machine translation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Yunlong Liang , Fandong Meng , Jinan Xu , Yufeng Chen , Jie Zhou

The Emotion-Cause Pair Extraction (ECPE) task aims to extract emotions and causes as pairs from documents. We observe that the relative distance distribution of emotions and causes is extremely imbalanced in the typical ECPE dataset.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Yinan Bao , Qianwen Ma , Lingwei Wei , Wei Zhou , Songlin Hu

Empathetic response generation aims to comprehend the user emotion and then respond to it appropriately. Most existing works merely focus on what the emotion is and ignore how the emotion is evoked, thus weakening the capacity of the model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Jiashuo Wang , Wenjie LI , Peiqin Lin , Feiteng Mu

Understanding emotions in natural language is inherently a multi-dimensional reasoning problem, where multiple affective signals interact through context, interpersonal relations, and situational cues. However, most existing emotion…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Hemanth Kotaprolu , Kishan Maharaj , Raey Zhao , Abhijit Mishra , Pushpak Bhattacharyya

Emotion-Cause Pair Extraction in Conversations (ECPEC) aims to identify the set of causal relations between emotion utterances and their triggering causes within a dialogue. Most existing approaches formulate ECPEC as an independent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Tianxiang Ma , Weijie Feng , Xinyu Wang , Zhiyong Cheng

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

Although large language models (LLMs) excel in text comprehension and generation, their performance on the Emotion-Cause Pair Extraction (ECPE) task, which requires reasoning ability, is often underperform smaller language model. The main…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Shiyi Mu , Yongkang Liu , Shi Feng , Xiaocui Yang , Daling Wang , Yifei Zhang

Multi-modal conversation emotion recognition (MCER) aims to recognize and track the speaker's emotional state using text, speech, and visual information in the conversation scene. Analyzing and studying MCER issues is significant to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Yuntao Shou , Tao Meng , Wei Ai , Fangze Fu , Nan Yin , Keqin Li

Conversational Speech Synthesis (CSS) aims to generate speech with natural prosody by understanding the multimodal dialogue history (MDH). The latest work predicts the accurate prosody expression of the target utterance by modeling the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Zhenqi Jia , Rui Liu , Berrak Sisman , Haizhou Li

Sarcasm Explanation in Dialogue (SED) is a new yet challenging task, which aims to generate a natural language explanation for the given sarcastic dialogue that involves multiple modalities (\ie utterance, video, and audio). Although…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Kun Ouyang , Liqiang Jing , Xuemeng Song , Meng Liu , Yupeng Hu , Liqiang Nie

We present M3ER, a learning-based method for emotion recognition from multiple input modalities. Our approach combines cues from multiple co-occurring modalities (such as face, text, and speech) and also is more robust than other methods to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-25 Trisha Mittal , Uttaran Bhattacharya , Rohan Chandra , Aniket Bera , Dinesh Manocha

Emotion detection is a critical technology extensively employed in diverse fields. While the incorporation of commonsense knowledge has proven beneficial for existing emotion detection methods, dialogue-based emotion detection encounters…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Yuting Su , Yichen Wei , Weizhi Nie , Sicheng Zhao , Anan Liu

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

Video causal reasoning aims to achieve a high-level understanding of videos from a causal perspective. However, it exhibits limitations in its scope, primarily executed in a question-answering paradigm and focusing on brief video segments…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Tieyuan Chen , Huabin Liu , Yi Wang , Yihang Chen , Tianyao He , Chaofan Gan , Huanyu He , Weiyao Lin

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