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Fuzzy Fingerprinting Transformer Language-Models for Emotion Recognition in Conversations

8 Sep 2023arXiv:2309.04292archive 2025-07-28

Patrícia Pereira, Rui Ribeiro, Helena Moniz, Luisa Coheur, Joao Paulo Carvalho

Fuzzy Fingerprints have been successfully used as an interpretable text classification technique, but, like most other techniques, have been largely surpassed in performance by Large Pre-trained Language Models, such as BERT or RoBERTa. These models deliver state-of-the-art results in several Natural Language Processing tasks, namely Emotion Recognition in Conversations (ERC), but suffer from the lack of interpretability and explainability. In this paper, we propose to combine the two approaches to perform ERC, as a means to obtain simpler and more interpretable Large Language Models-based classifiers. We propose to feed the utterances and their previous conversational turns to a pre-trained RoBERTa, obtaining contextual embedding utterance representations, that are then supplied to an adapted Fuzzy Fingerprint classification module. We validate our approach on the widely used DailyDialog ERC benchmark dataset, in which we obtain state-of-the-art level results using a much lighter model.

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Emotion RecognitionEmotion Recognition in ConversationText Classificationtext-classification

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Emotion Recognition in Conversation DailyDialog CD-ERC+FFP Macro F1 51.89 #21 of 22 Archive leaderboard report

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AdamAttentionAttention DropoutBERTDense ConnectionsDropoutLayer NormalizationLinear LayerLinear Warmup With Linear DecayMulti-Head AttentionResidual ConnectionRoBERTaSoftmaxWeight DecayWordPiece

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