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ICON: Interactive Conversational Memory Network for Multimodal Emotion Detection

1 Oct 2018EMNLP 2018 10archive 2025-07-28

Devamanyu Hazarika, Soujanya Poria, Rada Mihalcea, Erik Cambria, Roger Zimmermann

Emotion recognition in conversations is crucial for building empathetic machines. Present works in this domain do not explicitly consider the inter-personal influences that thrive in the emotional dynamics of dialogues. To this end, we propose Interactive COnversational memory Network (ICON), a multimodal emotion detection framework that extracts multimodal features from conversational videos and hierarchically models the self- and inter-speaker emotional influences into global memories. Such memories generate contextual summaries which aid in predicting the emotional orientation of utterance-videos. Our model outperforms state-of-the-art networks on multiple classification and regression tasks in two benchmark datasets.

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Emotion RecognitionEmotion Recognition in ConversationGeneral ClassificationMultimodal Emotion Recognitionregression

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Emotion Recognition in Conversation IEMOCAP ICON Weighted-F1 58.6 #56 of 59 Archive leaderboard report

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Memory Network

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