TED: Turn Emphasis with Dialogue Feature Attention for Emotion Recognition in Conversation

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Main Authors: Ono, Junya, Wakaki, Hiromi
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author Ono, Junya
Wakaki, Hiromi
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Wakaki, Hiromi
contents Emotion recognition in conversation (ERC) has been attracting attention by methods for modeling multi-turn contexts. The multi-turn input to a pretraining model implicitly assumes that the current turn and other turns are distinguished during the training process by inserting special tokens into the input sequence. This paper proposes a priority-based attention method to distinguish each turn explicitly by adding dialogue features into the attention mechanism, called Turn Emphasis with Dialogue (TED). It has a priority for each turn according to turn position and speaker information as dialogue features. It takes multi-head self-attention between turn-based vectors for multi-turn input and adjusts attention scores with the dialogue features. We evaluate TED on four typical benchmarks. The experimental results demonstrate that TED has high overall performance in all datasets and achieves state-of-the-art performance on IEMOCAP with numerous turns.
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spellingShingle TED: Turn Emphasis with Dialogue Feature Attention for Emotion Recognition in Conversation
Ono, Junya
Wakaki, Hiromi
Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Emotion recognition in conversation (ERC) has been attracting attention by methods for modeling multi-turn contexts. The multi-turn input to a pretraining model implicitly assumes that the current turn and other turns are distinguished during the training process by inserting special tokens into the input sequence. This paper proposes a priority-based attention method to distinguish each turn explicitly by adding dialogue features into the attention mechanism, called Turn Emphasis with Dialogue (TED). It has a priority for each turn according to turn position and speaker information as dialogue features. It takes multi-head self-attention between turn-based vectors for multi-turn input and adjusts attention scores with the dialogue features. We evaluate TED on four typical benchmarks. The experimental results demonstrate that TED has high overall performance in all datasets and achieves state-of-the-art performance on IEMOCAP with numerous turns.
title TED: Turn Emphasis with Dialogue Feature Attention for Emotion Recognition in Conversation
topic Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.01123