DialogueGCN: A Graph Convolutional Neural Network for Emotion Recognition in Conversation
Deepanway Ghosal, Navonil Majumder, Soujanya Poria, Niyati Chhaya, Alexander Gelbukh
Abstract
Emotion recognition in conversation (ERC) has received much attention, lately, from researchers due to its potential widespread applications in diverse areas, such as health-care, education, and human resources. In this paper, we present Dialogue Graph Convolutional Network (DialogueGCN), a graph neural network based approach to ERC. We leverage self and inter-speaker dependency of the interlocutors to model conversational context for emotion recognition. Through the graph network, DialogueGCN addresses context propagation issues present in the current RNN-based methods. We empirically show that this method alleviates such issues, while outperforming the current state of the art on a number of benchmark emotion classification datasets.- Anthology ID:
- D19-1015
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP)
- Month:
- November
- Year:
- 2019
- Address:
- Hong Kong, China
- Editors:
- Kentaro Inui, Jing Jiang, Vincent Ng, Xiaojun Wan
- Venues:
- EMNLP | IJCNLP
- SIG:
- SIGDAT
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 154–164
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/D19-1015
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/D19-1015
- Cite (ACL):
- Deepanway Ghosal, Navonil Majumder, Soujanya Poria, Niyati Chhaya, and Alexander Gelbukh. 2019. DialogueGCN: A Graph Convolutional Neural Network for Emotion Recognition in Conversation. In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP), pages 154–164, Hong Kong, China. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- DialogueGCN: A Graph Convolutional Neural Network for Emotion Recognition in Conversation (Ghosal et al., EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/proper-vol2-ingestion/D19-1015.pdf
- Code
- SenticNet/conv-emotion + additional community code
- Data
- CPED, IEMOCAP, MELD, SEMAINE