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For emotion recognition in conversation (ERC), the modeling of conversational dependency plays a crucial role. Existing methods often directly connect multimodal information and then build a graph neural network based on a fixed number of past and future utterances. The former leads to the lack of interaction between modalities, and the latter is less consistent with the logic of the conversation. Therefore, in order to better build conversational dependency, we propose a Dependency Graph Neural Network (DGNN) for ERC. First, we present a cross-modal fusion transformer for modeling dependency between different modalities of the same utterance. Then, we design a directed graph neural network model based on the adaptive window for modeling dependency between different utterances. The results of the extensive experiments on two benchmark datasets demonstrate the superiority of the proposed model.
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This research was supported by “Pioneer” and “Leading Goose” R &D Program of Zhejiang (Grant No. 2023C03203, 2023C03180, 2022C03174).
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Zhang, Z. et al. (2024). DGNN: Dependency Graph Neural Network for Multimodal Emotion Recognition in Conversation. In: Luo, B., Cheng, L., Wu, ZG., Li, H., Li, C. (eds) Neural Information Processing. ICONIP 2023. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1963. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-8138-0_8
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