Ms. XUE Jieying (3rd-year doctoral program student in Nguyen Lab, Computing Science Research Area) received ENNS Student Award in 33rd International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN2024).

ICANN is the annual flagship conference of the European Neural Network Society (ENNS), and the 2024 conference was held in Switzerland (Lugano) from September 17-20.
The ICANN 2024 featured three conference tracks, namely AI and Machine Learning, Bio-Inspired Computing, and the Applications Track, making it a unique forum to bring together researchers across a wide range of disciplines related to Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks.

*Reference: ICANN 2024
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■Date Awarded
September 20，2024

■Title
BiosERC: Integrating Biography Speakers Supported by LLMs for ERC Tasks

■Authors
Jieying Xue, Minh-Phuong Nguyen, Blake Matheny & Le-Minh Nguyen

■Abstract
In the Emotion Recognition in Conversation task, recent investigations have utilized attention mechanisms exploring relationships among utterances from intra- and inter-speakers for modeling emotional interaction between them. However, attributes such as speaker personality traits remain unexplored and present challenges in terms of their applicability to other tasks or compatibility with diverse model architectures. Therefore, this work introduces a novel framework named BiosERC, which investigates speaker characteristics in a conversation. By employing Large Language Models (LLMs), we extract the "biographical information" of the speaker within a conversation as supplementary knowledge injected into the model to classify emotional labels for each utterance. Our proposed method achieved state-of-the-art (SOTA) results on three famous benchmark datasets: IEMOCAP, MELD, and EmoryNLP, demonstrating the effectiveness and generalization of our model and showcasing its potential for adaptation to various conversation analysis tasks. Our source code is available at https://github.com/yingjie 7/BiosERC

■Comment
I am deeply honored to receive this award. It not only recognizes our work but also gives me the opportunity to engage in face-to-face academic exchanges with colleagues in Switzerland, which has greatly enhanced my presentation skills. I am sincerely grateful to JAIST and Professor Nguyen Minh Le for their generous financial support.

December 4, 2024