Emotion detection in dialogues is challenging as it often requires the
identification of thematic topics underlying a conversation, the relevant
commonsense knowledge, and the intricate transition patterns between the
affective states. In this paper, we propose a Topic-Driven Knowledge-Aware
Transformer to handle the challenges above. We firstly design a topic-augmented
language model (LM) with an additional layer specialized for topic detection.
The topic-augmented LM is then combined with commonsense statements derived
from a knowledge base based on the dialogue contextual information. Finally, a
transformer-based encoder-decoder architecture fuses the topical and
commonsense information, and performs the emotion label sequence prediction.
The model has been experimented on four datasets in dialogue emotion detection,
demonstrating its superiority empirically over the existing state-of-the-art
approaches. Quantitative and qualitative results show that the model can
discover topics which help in distinguishing emotion categories.

本文提出了一种名为 Topic-Driven Knowledge-Aware Transformer 的模型，包含一种话题增强语言模型、基于对话情境信息的常识语句和一种转换器，用于识别情感标签序列中的话题和情感状态。实验结果表明，该模型在对话情感检测方面表现优于现有的最先进方法。