Building a Dialogue Corpus Annotated with Expressed and Experienced Emotions

Tatsuya Ide, Daisuke Kawahara


Abstract
In communication, a human would recognize the emotion of an interlocutor and respond with an appropriate emotion, such as empathy and comfort. Toward developing a dialogue system with such a human-like ability, we propose a method to build a dialogue corpus annotated with two kinds of emotions. We collect dialogues from Twitter and annotate each utterance with the emotion that a speaker put into the utterance (expressed emotion) and the emotion that a listener felt after listening to the utterance (experienced emotion). We built a dialogue corpus in Japanese using this method, and its statistical analysis revealed the differences between expressed and experienced emotions. We conducted experiments on recognition of the two kinds of emotions. The experimental results indicated the difficulty in recognizing experienced emotions and the effectiveness of multi-task learning of the two kinds of emotions. We hope that the constructed corpus will facilitate the study on emotion recognition in a dialogue and emotion-aware dialogue response generation.
Anthology ID:
2022.acl-srw.3
Volume:
Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Student Research Workshop
Month:
May
Year:
2022
Address:
Dublin, Ireland
Editors:
Samuel Louvan, Andrea Madotto, Brielen Madureira
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ACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
21–30
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2022.acl-srw.3
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2022.acl-srw.3
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Cite (ACL):
Tatsuya Ide and Daisuke Kawahara. 2022. Building a Dialogue Corpus Annotated with Expressed and Experienced Emotions. In Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Student Research Workshop, pages 21–30, Dublin, Ireland. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Building a Dialogue Corpus Annotated with Expressed and Experienced Emotions (Ide & Kawahara, ACL 2022)
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https://aclanthology.org/2022.acl-srw.3.pdf
Code
 nlp-waseda/expr-exper-emo
Data
DailyDialogEmoBankEmotionLinesStory Commonsense