Dynamic Causal Disentanglement Model for Dialogue Emotion Detection
Yuting Su Yichen Wei Weizhi Nie Sicheng Zhao Anan Liu
Emotion detection is a critical technology extensively employed in diverse
fields. While the incorporation of commonsense knowledge has proven beneficial
for existing emotion detection methods, dialogue-based emotion detection
encounters numerous difficulties and challenges due to human agency and the
variability of dialogue content.In dialogues, human emotions tend to accumulate
in bursts. However, they are often implicitly expressed. This implies that many
genuine emotions remain concealed within a plethora of unrelated words and
dialogues.In this paper, we propose a Dynamic Causal Disentanglement Model
based on hidden variable separation, which is founded on the separation of
hidden variables. This model effectively decomposes the content of dialogues
and investigates the temporal accumulation of emotions, thereby enabling more
precise emotion recognition. First, we introduce a novel Causal Directed
Acyclic Graph (DAG) to establish the correlation between hidden emotional
information and other observed elements. Subsequently, our approach utilizes
pre-extracted personal attributes and utterance topics as guiding factors for
the distribution of hidden variables, aiming to separate irrelevant ones.
Specifically, we propose a dynamic temporal disentanglement model to infer the
propagation of utterances and hidden variables, enabling the accumulation of
emotion-related information throughout the conversation. To guide this
disentanglement process, we leverage the ChatGPT-4.0 and LSTM networks to
extract utterance topics and personal attributes as observed
information.Finally, we test our approach on two popular datasets in dialogue
emotion detection and relevant experimental results verified the model's
superiority.