Knowing What and Why: Causal emotion entailment for emotion recognition in conversations

Hao Liu, Runguo Wei, Geng Tu, Jiali Lin, Dazhi Jiang, Erik Cambria

Abstract: Highlights•Introduced causal emotion entailment tasks into the emotional recognition task.•Proposed Bidirectional Reasoning Network for cognitive-inspired emotion understanding.•Combined method with various emotion recognition models to verify its effectiveness.