Multimodal Relational Tensor Network for Sentiment and Emotion Classification

Saurav Sahay, Shachi H Kumar, Rui Xia, Jonathan Huang, Lama Nachman


Abstract
Understanding Affect from video segments has brought researchers from the language, audio and video domains together. Most of the current multimodal research in this area deals with various techniques to fuse the modalities, and mostly treat the segments of a video independently. Motivated by the work of (Zadeh et al., 2017) and (Poria et al., 2017), we present our architecture, Relational Tensor Network, where we use the inter-modal interactions within a segment (intra-segment) and also consider the sequence of segments in a video to model the inter-segment inter-modal interactions. We also generate rich representations of text and audio modalities by leveraging richer audio and linguistic context alongwith fusing fine-grained knowledge based polarity scores from text. We present the results of our model on CMU-MOSEI dataset and show that our model outperforms many baselines and state of the art methods for sentiment classification and emotion recognition.
Anthology ID:
W18-3303
Volume:
Proceedings of Grand Challenge and Workshop on Human Multimodal Language (Challenge-HML)
Month:
July
Year:
2018
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Melbourne, Australia
Editors:
Amir Zadeh, Paul Pu Liang, Louis-Philippe Morency, Soujanya Poria, Erik Cambria, Stefan Scherer
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ACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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20–27
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/W18-3303
DOI:
10.18653/v1/W18-3303
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Saurav Sahay, Shachi H Kumar, Rui Xia, Jonathan Huang, and Lama Nachman. 2018. Multimodal Relational Tensor Network for Sentiment and Emotion Classification. In Proceedings of Grand Challenge and Workshop on Human Multimodal Language (Challenge-HML), pages 20–27, Melbourne, Australia. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Multimodal Relational Tensor Network for Sentiment and Emotion Classification (Sahay et al., ACL 2018)
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