Exposing Weaknesses in Emotion Recognition in Conversations
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arXiv:2609.05806v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Emotion Recognition in Conversations (ERC) aims to identify speakers' emotions in multi-turn dialogue. Accurate emotion recognition can support a wide range of applications, including empathetic conversational agents, mental health support, and educational technologies. While many recent approaches rely on task-specific fine-tuning, such models may exploit dataset-specific cues. A central yet rarely questioned assumption in ERC is that each utterance can be assigned a single unambiguous emotion label. To investigate this assumption, we study ERC
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2609.05806v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Emotion Recognition in Conversations (ERC) aims to identify speakers' emotions in multi-turn dialogue.
- Accurate emotion recognition can support a wide range of applications, including empathetic conversational agents, mental health support, and educational technologies.
- While many recent approaches rely on task-specific fine-tuning, such models may exploit dataset-specific cues.
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