Emotion Recognition in Conversation Based on a Dynamic Complementary Graph Convolutional Network

Emotion recognition in conversation (ERC) is a widely used technology in both affective dialogue bots and dialogue recommendation scenarios, where motivating a system to correctly recognize human emotions is crucial. Uncovering as much contextual information as possible with a limited amount of dialogue information is essential for eventually identifying the correct emotion of each sentence. The integration of contextual information using the existing approaches often results in inadequate access to information or information redundancy. Deeply integrating the different knowledge behind utterances is also difficult. Therefore, to address these problems, we propose a dynamic complementary graph convolutional network (DCGCN) for conversational emotion recognition. Our approach uses commonsense knowledge to complement the contextual information contained in utterances and enrich the extracted conversation information. We creatively propose the concept of utterance density to prevent redundancy and the loss of utterance information in context-dependent contextual information modeling cases. An utterance dependency structure is dynamically determined by the utterance density, and the contextual information is fully integrated into each sentence representation. We evaluate our proposed model in extensive experiments conducted on four public benchmark datasets that are commonly used for ERC. The results demonstrate the effectiveness of the DCGCN, which achieves competitive results in terms of well-known evaluation metrics. Our code is available at https://github.com/Tars-is-a-robot/Conversational-emotion-recognition.git .