Hierarchical Fusion for Online Multimodal Dialog Act Classification

Md Messal Monem Miah, Adarsh Pyarelal, Ruihong Huang

Abstract
We propose a framework for online multimodal dialog act (DA) classification based on raw audio and ASR-generated transcriptions of current and past utterances. Existing multimodal DA classification approaches are limited by ineffective audio modeling and late-stage fusion. We showcase significant improvements in multimodal DA classification by integrating modalities at a more granular level and incorporating recent advancements in large language and audio models for audio feature extraction. We further investigate the effectiveness of self-attention and cross-attention mechanisms in modeling utterances and dialogs for DA classification. We achieve a substantial increase of 3 percentage points in the F1 score relative to current state-of-the-art models on two prominent DA classification datasets, MRDA and EMOTyDA.
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2023.findings-emnlp.505
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Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023
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December
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2023
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Singapore
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Houda Bouamor, Juan Pino, Kalika Bali
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Findings
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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7532–7545
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https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-emnlp.505
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10.18653/v1/2023.findings-emnlp.505
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Md Messal Monem Miah, Adarsh Pyarelal, and Ruihong Huang. 2023. Hierarchical Fusion for Online Multimodal Dialog Act Classification. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023, pages 7532–7545, Singapore. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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