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Emotion Cause Triplet Extraction in Multimodal Conversations (MECTEC) has recently gained significant attention in social media analysis, aiming to extract emotion utterances, cause utterances, and emotion categories simultaneously.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Qiao Liang , Ying Shen , Tiantian Chen , Lin Zhang

In this paper, we address the task of utterance level emotion recognition in conversations using commonsense knowledge. We propose COSMIC, a new framework that incorporates different elements of commonsense such as mental states, events,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Deepanway Ghosal , Navonil Majumder , Alexander Gelbukh , Rada Mihalcea , Soujanya Poria

The emotion cause extraction (ECE) task aims at discovering the potential causes behind a certain emotion expression in a document. Techniques including rule-based methods, traditional machine learning methods and deep neural networks have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Rui Xia , Mengran Zhang , Zixiang Ding

Emotion Recognition in Conversations (ERC) is a key step towards successful human-machine interaction. While the field has seen tremendous advancement in the last few years, new applications and implementation scenarios present novel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Patrícia Pereira , Helena Moniz , Joao Paulo Carvalho

Empathetic conversation is psychologically supposed to be the result of conscious alignment and interaction between the cognition and affection of empathy. However, existing empathetic dialogue models usually consider only the affective…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Jinfeng Zhou , Chujie Zheng , Bo Wang , Zheng Zhang , Minlie Huang

Emotion Recognition in Conversation (ERC) is critical for enabling natural human-machine interactions. However, existing methods predominantly employ categorical or dimensional emotion annotations, which often fail to adequately represent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yoshiki Tanaka , Ryuichi Uehara , Koji Inoue , Michimasa Inaba

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

Understanding the reason for emotional support response is crucial for establishing connections between users and emotional support dialogue systems. Previous works mostly focus on generating better responses but ignore interpretability,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Tenggan Zhang , Xinjie Zhang , Jinming Zhao , Li Zhou , Qin Jin

Emotional support is a crucial ability for many conversation scenarios, including social interactions, mental health support, and customer service chats. Following reasonable procedures and using various support skills can help to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Siyang Liu , Chujie Zheng , Orianna Demasi , Sahand Sabour , Yu Li , Zhou Yu , Yong Jiang , Minlie Huang

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

Emotion recognition in conversation (ERC) aims to detect the emotion for each utterance in a given conversation. The newly proposed ERC models have leveraged pre-trained language models (PLMs) with the paradigm of pre-training and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Jingjie Yi , Deqing Yang , Siyu Yuan , Caiyan Cao , Zhiyao Zhang , Yanghua Xiao

Emotion Support Conversation (ESC) is an emerging and challenging task with the goal of reducing the emotional distress of people. Previous attempts fail to maintain smooth transitions between utterances in ESC because they ignore to grasp…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Weixiang Zhao , Yanyan Zhao , Shilong Wang , Bing Qin

Stylized image captioning systems aim to generate a caption not only semantically related to a given image but also consistent with a given style description. One of the biggest challenges with this task is the lack of sufficient paired…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Guodun Li , Yuchen Zhai , Zehao Lin , Yin Zhang

Relation extraction (RE) has recently moved from the sentence-level to document-level, which requires aggregating document information and using entities and mentions for reasoning. Existing works put entity nodes and mention nodes with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Hongfei Liu , Zhao Kang , Lizong Zhang , Ling Tian , Fujun Hua

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

Emotional Support Conversation (ESC) aims to provide empathetic and effective emotional assistance through dialogue, addressing the growing demand for mental health support. This paper presents our solution for the NLPCC 2025 Task 8 ESC…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Shiquan Wang , Ruiyu Fang , Zhongjiang He , Shuangyong Song , Yongxiang Li

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

Empathetic dialogue is a human-like behavior that requires the perception of both affective factors (e.g., emotion status) and cognitive factors (e.g., cause of the emotion). Besides concerning emotion status in early work, the latest…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Yushan Qian , Bo Wang , Ting-En Lin , Yinhe Zheng , Ying Zhu , Dongming Zhao , Yuexian Hou , Yuchuan Wu , Yongbin Li

Causal explanation analysis (CEA) can assist us to understand the reasons behind daily events, which has been found very helpful for understanding the coherence of messages. In this paper, we focus on Causal Explanation Detection, an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-25 Xinyu Zuo , Yubo Chen , Kang Liu , Jun Zhao

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