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A Multimodal LSTM for Predicting Listener Empathic Responses Over Time
Zhi-Xuan Tan, Arushi Goel, Thanh-Son Nguyen, Desmond C. Ong
People naturally understand the emotions of-and often also empathize with-those around them. In this paper, we predict the emotional valence of an empathic listener over time as they listen to a speaker narrating a life story. We use the dataset provided by the OMG-Empathy Prediction Challenge, a workshop held in conjunction with IEEE FG 2019. We present a multimodal LSTM model with feature-level fusion and local attention that predicts empathic responses from audio, text, and visual features. Our best-performing model, which used only the audio and text features, achieved a concordance correlation coefficient (CCC) of 0.29 and 0.32 on the Validation set for the Generalized and Personalized track respectively, and achieved a CCC of 0.14 and 0.14 on the held-out Test set. We discuss the difficulties faced and the lessons learnt tackling this challenge.
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