Challenge: Existing studies in Emotion Recognition in Conversations (ERC) focus on capturing context-sensitive and speaker-sensitive dependencies, ignoring the unintended dataset biases of data.
Approach: They propose a training-free debiasing framework that extracts biases from the model by generating counterfactual utterances and contexts and mitigates them using simple yet empirically robust element-wise subtraction operations.
Outcome: Experiments on three public datasets show that the proposed framework improves generalization ability and fairness across different ERC models.

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