Emotion Prediction in Conversation Based on Relationship Extraction
Yingjian Liu, Xiaoping Wang, Lei Shanglin · 2023
With the development of human-computer interaction systems, emotion recognition in conversation (ERC) has attracted increasing interest in recent years. Motivated by recent studies which have proven that generating emotional conversation responses can effectively improve the performance of the ERC model. However, accurate emotional response is complicated due to the limited number of dialogue samples. Therefore, we propose a simple and effective framework for emotion prediction in conversation based on relationship extraction (DiaRP), consisting of two curricula: (1) Dialogue Relationship Capture (DRC); and (2) Next Emotion Prediction (NEP). In DRC, we capture the current emotional self-dependence and interpersonal dependence according to the influence of self and others on the current moment emotion in the conversation. We integrate self-dependence and interpersonal dependence for NEP to predict their emotional state without current utterance. We also measure the similarity between recognized emotion distribution and predicted emotion distribution by the KL divergence. With the proposed model-agnostic DiaRP strategy, we observe a significant performance improvement over a wide range of existing ERC models and achieve new state-of-the-art results on three public ERC datasets.