Summary of Emotion and Intent Joint Understanding in Multimodal Conversation: a Benchmarking Dataset, by Rui Liu et al.
Emotion and Intent Joint Understanding in Multimodal Conversation: A Benchmarking Dataset
by Rui Liu, Haolin Zuo, Zheng Lian, Xiaofen Xing, Björn W. Schuller, Haizhou Li
First submitted to arxiv on: 3 Jul 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper proposes a novel dataset, MC-EIU, for multimodal conversation (MC) that combines emotion and intent joint understanding. The goal is to decode the semantic information in a conversational history while inferring emotions and intents simultaneously for the current utterance. This technology has many applications in human-computer interfaces. However, existing datasets lack annotation, modality, language diversity, and accessibility. To address this gap, MC-EIU features 7 emotion categories, 9 intent categories, 3 modalities (textual, acoustic, and visual), and two languages (English and Mandarin). The dataset is open-source for free access, making it a valuable resource for researchers. The paper also presents an Emotion and Intent Interaction (EI^2) network as a reference system to model the correlation between emotion and intent in MC. Comparative experiments and ablation studies demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed EI^2 method on the MC-EIU dataset. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper creates a special kind of database that helps computers understand emotions and goals in conversations. This is important because it can be used for many things like talking to machines, robots, or virtual assistants. Right now, there isn’t a good way to do this, so scientists made their own dataset with different emotions, goals, and ways of communicating (like writing, speaking, or showing pictures). They also developed a special computer program that helps computers understand these conversations better. |
