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DialogueRNN: An Attentive RNN for Emotion Detection in Conversations

1 Nov 2018arXiv:1811.00405archive 2025-07-28

Navonil Majumder, Soujanya Poria, Devamanyu Hazarika, Rada Mihalcea, Alexander Gelbukh, Erik Cambria

Emotion detection in conversations is a necessary step for a number of applications, including opinion mining over chat history, social media threads, debates, argumentation mining, understanding consumer feedback in live conversations, etc. Currently, systems do not treat the parties in the conversation individually by adapting to the speaker of each utterance. In this paper, we describe a new method based on recurrent neural networks that keeps track of the individual party states throughout the conversation and uses this information for emotion classification. Our model outperforms the state of the art by a significant margin on two different datasets.

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Emotion ClassificationEmotion Recognition in ConversationGeneral ClassificationMultimodal Emotion Recognition

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Emotion Recognition in Conversation CPED DialogueRNN Accuracy of Sentiment 48.57 #8 of 11 Archive leaderboard report
Emotion Recognition in Conversation CPED DialogueRNN Macro-F1 of Sentiment 44.11 #8 of 11 Archive leaderboard report
Emotion Recognition in Conversation IEMOCAP DialogueRNN Accuracy 63.5 #51 of 59 Archive leaderboard report
Emotion Recognition in Conversation IEMOCAP DialogueRNN Weighted-F1 63.5 #51 of 59 Archive leaderboard report
Emotion Recognition in Conversation MELD DialogueRNN Accuracy 59.54 #65 of 68 Archive leaderboard report
Emotion Recognition in Conversation MELD DialogueRNN Weighted-F1 57.03 #65 of 68 Archive leaderboard report
Emotion Recognition in Conversation SEMAINE DialogueRNN MAE (Arousal) 0.165 #3 of 3 Archive leaderboard report
Emotion Recognition in Conversation SEMAINE DialogueRNN MAE (Expectancy) 0.175 #3 of 3 Archive leaderboard report
Emotion Recognition in Conversation SEMAINE DialogueRNN MAE (Power) 7.9 #3 of 3 Archive leaderboard report
Emotion Recognition in Conversation SEMAINE DialogueRNN MAE (Valence) 0.168 #3 of 3 Archive leaderboard report

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