Speaker-Guided Encoder-Decoder Framework for Emotion Recognition in Conversation

Speaker-Guided Encoder-Decoder Framework for Emotion Recognition in Conversation

Yinan Bao, Qianwen Ma, Lingwei Wei, Wei Zhou, Songlin Hu

Proceedings of the Thirty-First International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Main Track. Pages 4051-4057. https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2022/562

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, the modeling of speaker-specific information is a vital role in ERC. Although existing researchers have proposed various methods of speaker interaction modeling, they cannot explore dynamic intra- and inter-speaker dependencies jointly, leading to the insufficient comprehension of context and further hindering emotion prediction. To this end, we design a novel speaker modeling scheme that explores intra- and inter-speaker dependencies jointly in a dynamic manner. Besides, we propose a Speaker-Guided Encoder-Decoder (SGED) framework for ERC, which fully exploits speaker information for the decoding of emotion. We use different existing methods as the conversational context encoder of our framework, showing the high scalability and flexibility of the proposed framework. Experimental results demonstrate the superiority and effectiveness of SGED.
Keywords:
Natural Language Processing: Sentiment Analysis and Text Mining
Natural Language Processing: Text Classification
Natural Language Processing: Applications