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arXiv CS.AI·Jun 11·5 min read
Causal Emotion Recognition in Conversation: Context Saturation and Discourse-Marker Evidence
TL;DR
Emotion recognition in conversations often lacks context, leading to misinterpretations. A new method was developed using discourse markers to enhance causal emotion recognition.
✦ Why It Matters
Engineers can enhance AI systems by integrating discourse markers for improved emotion recognition in conversational interfaces.
Key Takeaways
- Utilize recent conversational history for better emotion detection.
- Consider hierarchical representations for utterance-only contexts.
- Avoid reliance on external affective lexicons in ERC models.
- Analyze discourse markers to understand emotional context.
How It Works
The study employs controlled ablation experiments to assess the impact of various modeling choices on emotion recognition performance. By analyzing the influence of conversational context, it demonstrates that the most significant improvements in accuracy come from the most recent dialogue turns, highlighting the importance of temporal context in understanding emotions.