UniMEEC: Towards Unified Multimodal Emotion Recognition and Emotion Cause (2024.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Existing studies treat emotion recognition and emotion cause extraction as two individual problems, ignoring their natural causality. |
| Approach: | They propose a Unified Multimodal Emotion recognition and Emotion-Cause analysis framework to explore the causality between emotion and emotion cause. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework reformulates MERC and MECPE tasks as mask prediction problems and unifies them with a causal prompt template. |
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