Abstract
Capturing emotions within a conversation plays an essential role in modern dialogue systems. However, the weak correlation between emotions and semantics brings many challenges to emotion recognition in conversation (ERC). Even semantically similar utterances, the emotion may vary drastically depending on contexts or speakers. In this paper, we propose a Supervised Prototypical Contrastive Learning (SPCL) loss for the ERC task. Leveraging the Prototypical Network, the SPCL targets at solving the imbalanced classification problem through contrastive learning and does not require a large batch size. Meanwhile, we design a difficulty measure function based on the distance between classes and introduce curriculum learning to alleviate the impact of extreme samples. We achieve state-of-the-art results on three widely used benchmarks. Further, we conduct analytical experiments to demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed SPCL and curriculum learning strategy.- Anthology ID:
- 2022.emnlp-main.347
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
- Month:
- December
- Year:
- 2022
- Address:
- Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
- Venue:
- EMNLP
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 5197–5206
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2022.emnlp-main.347
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/2022.emnlp-main.347
- Cite (ACL):
- Xiaohui Song, Longtao Huang, Hui Xue, and Songlin Hu. 2022. Supervised Prototypical Contrastive Learning for Emotion Recognition in Conversation. In Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 5197–5206, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Supervised Prototypical Contrastive Learning for Emotion Recognition in Conversation (Song et al., EMNLP 2022)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/remove-xml-comments/2022.emnlp-main.347.pdf