An emotional journey : detecting emotion trajectories in Dutch customer service dialogues

Publication type
C1
Publication status
Published
Authors
Labat, S., Hadifar, A., Demeester, T., & Hoste, V.
Series
Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (W-NUT 2022)
Pagination
106-112
Publisher
Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) (Gyeongju, Republic of Korea)
Conference
The Eighth Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (W-NUT 2022) (Gyeongju, Republic of Korea)
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Abstract

The ability to track fine-grained emotions in customer service dialogues has many real-world applications, but has not been studied extensively. This paper measures the potential of prediction models on that task, based on a real-world dataset of Dutch Twitter conversations in the domain of customer service. We find that modeling emotion trajectories has a small, but measurable benefit compared to predictions based on isolated turns. The models used in our study are shown to generalize well to different companies and economic sectors.