MELD: A Multimodal Multi-Party Dataset for Emotion Recognition in Conversations
Soujanya Poria, Devamanyu Hazarika, Navonil Majumder, Gautam Naik, Erik Cambria, Rada Mihalcea
Abstract
Emotion recognition in conversations is a challenging task that has recently gained popularity due to its potential applications. Until now, however, a large-scale multimodal multi-party emotional conversational database containing more than two speakers per dialogue was missing. Thus, we propose the Multimodal EmotionLines Dataset (MELD), an extension and enhancement of EmotionLines. MELD contains about 13,000 utterances from 1,433 dialogues from the TV-series Friends. Each utterance is annotated with emotion and sentiment labels, and encompasses audio, visual and textual modalities. We propose several strong multimodal baselines and show the importance of contextual and multimodal information for emotion recognition in conversations. The full dataset is available for use at http://affective-meld.github.io.- Anthology ID:
- P19-1050
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
- Month:
- July
- Year:
- 2019
- Address:
- Florence, Italy
- Editors:
- Anna Korhonen, David Traum, Lluís Màrquez
- Venue:
- ACL
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 527–536
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/P19-1050
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/P19-1050
- Cite (ACL):
- Soujanya Poria, Devamanyu Hazarika, Navonil Majumder, Gautam Naik, Erik Cambria, and Rada Mihalcea. 2019. MELD: A Multimodal Multi-Party Dataset for Emotion Recognition in Conversations. In Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 527–536, Florence, Italy. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- MELD: A Multimodal Multi-Party Dataset for Emotion Recognition in Conversations (Poria et al., ACL 2019)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/proper-vol2-ingestion/P19-1050.pdf
- Code
- declare-lab/MELD + additional community code
- Data
- MELD, EmotionLines, IEMOCAP, SEMAINE