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DialogueCRN: Contextual Reasoning Networks for Emotion Recognition in Conversations

3 Jun 2021ACL 2021 5arXiv:2106.01978archive 2025-07-28

Dou Hu, Lingwei Wei, Xiaoyong Huai

Emotion Recognition in Conversations (ERC) has gained increasing attention for developing empathetic machines. Recently, many approaches have been devoted to perceiving conversational context by deep learning models. However, these approaches are insufficient in understanding the context due to lacking the ability to extract and integrate emotional clues. In this work, we propose novel Contextual Reasoning Networks (DialogueCRN) to fully understand the conversational context from a cognitive perspective. Inspired by the Cognitive Theory of Emotion, we design multi-turn reasoning modules to extract and integrate emotional clues. The reasoning module iteratively performs an intuitive retrieving process and a conscious reasoning process, which imitates human unique cognitive thinking. Extensive experiments on three public benchmark datasets demonstrate the effectiveness and superiority of the proposed model.

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Emotion RecognitionEmotion Recognition in Conversation

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Emotion Recognition in Conversation CMU-MOSEI-Sentiment DialogueCRN Accuracy 37.88 #6 of 7 Archive leaderboard report
Emotion Recognition in Conversation CMU-MOSEI-Sentiment DialogueCRN Weighted F1 26.55 #6 of 7 Archive leaderboard report
Emotion Recognition in Conversation EmoryNLP DialogueCRN+RoBERTa Micro-F1 41.04 #16 of 28 Archive leaderboard report
Emotion Recognition in Conversation EmoryNLP DialogueCRN+RoBERTa Weighted-F1 38.79 #16 of 28 Archive leaderboard report
Emotion Recognition in Conversation IEMOCAP DialogueCRN+RoBERTa Accuracy 67.39 #31 of 59 Archive leaderboard report
Emotion Recognition in Conversation IEMOCAP DialogueCRN+RoBERTa Weighted-F1 67.53 #31 of 59 Archive leaderboard report
Emotion Recognition in Conversation IEMOCAP DialogueCRN Accuracy 66.05 #37 of 59 Archive leaderboard report
Emotion Recognition in Conversation IEMOCAP DialogueCRN Weighted-F1 66.33 #37 of 59 Archive leaderboard report
Emotion Recognition in Conversation IEMOCAP-4 DialogueCRN Accuracy 81.34 #5 of 8 Archive leaderboard report
Emotion Recognition in Conversation IEMOCAP-4 DialogueCRN Weighted F1 81.28 #5 of 8 Archive leaderboard report
Emotion Recognition in Conversation MELD DialogueCRN+RoBERTa Accuracy 66.93 #27 of 68 Archive leaderboard report
Emotion Recognition in Conversation MELD DialogueCRN+RoBERTa Weighted-F1 65.77 #27 of 68 Archive leaderboard report
Emotion Recognition in Conversation MELD DialogueCRN Accuracy 60.73 #60 of 68 Archive leaderboard report
Emotion Recognition in Conversation MELD DialogueCRN Weighted-F1 58.39 #60 of 68 Archive leaderboard report

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