SEC: Context-Aware Metric Learning for Efficient Emotion Recognition in Conversation

Barbara Gendron, GaelGuibon GaelGuibon


Abstract
The advent of deep learning models has made a considerable contribution to the achievement of Emotion Recognition in Conversation (ERC). However, this task still remains an important challenge due to the plurality and subjectivity of human emotions. Previous work on ERC provides predictive models using mostly graph-based conversation representations. In this work, we propose a way to model the conversational context that we incorporate into a metric learning training strategy, with a two-step process. This allows us to perform ERC in a flexible classification scenario and end up with a lightweight yet efficient model. Using metric learning through a Siamese Network architecture, we achieve 57.71 in macro F1 score for emotion classification in conversation on DailyDialog dataset, which outperforms the related work. This state-of-the-art result is promising in terms of the use of metric learning for emotion recognition, yet perfectible compared to the micro F1 score obtained.
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2024.wassa-1.2
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Proceedings of the 14th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment, & Social Media Analysis
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August
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2024
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Bangkok, Thailand
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Orphée De Clercq, Valentin Barriere, Jeremy Barnes, Roman Klinger, João Sedoc, Shabnam Tafreshi
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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11–22
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Barbara Gendron and GaelGuibon GaelGuibon. 2024. SEC: Context-Aware Metric Learning for Efficient Emotion Recognition in Conversation. In Proceedings of the 14th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment, & Social Media Analysis, pages 11–22, Bangkok, Thailand. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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