Challenge: Emotion recognition in multi-party conversations is a challenging task that predicts the emotion for each utterance.
Approach: They propose to separate conversations into detached threads to capture emotional clues in conversational context . they propose to use mutual detachment networks to perform context and speaker-specific modeling within detached thread.
Outcome: The proposed model outperforms baseline models on two datasets.

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