通过保留标注者分歧信息,用贝叶斯方法发现情绪转换规律。
Bayesian Spectral Emotion Transition Discovery from Multi-Annotator Disagreement

- 构建多标注软标签的贝叶斯后验模型,量化情绪转换的不确定性
- 识别出厌恶到愤怒等高频率情绪传播模式,以及快乐到愤怒等低频模式
- 适合研究情绪动态的心理学与对话系统开发者
情绪在对话中动态演变,理解其转换结构对心理健康筛查和对话系统至关重要。现有研究常通过多数投票将多标注判断压缩为单一硬标签,丢失了用于分析逐轮转换的不确定性信号。本文提出贝叶斯谱情绪转换发现(BSETD),一种两阶段框架,从多标注软标签中挖掘情绪转换结构。第一阶段通过软标签外积构建分层狄利克雷-多项式后验,使每个K×K转移矩阵单元获得可信区间及受本杰明-霍希伯格(BH)控制的错误发现率(FDR)。第二阶段对称化图拉普拉斯矩阵进行谱分解,分离低频(惯性)与高频(传染)成分。在EmotionLines数据集上,BSETD同时揭示两种不同情感空间特征:普鲁契克邻近转换中,厌恶→愤怒(log2提升+0.94)和愤怒→厌恶(+0.86)显著高发;而罗素维度反转转换中,快乐→愤怒(-0.90)和愤怒→快乐(-0.89)则显著不足。五源跨语料库验证显示,英文内部成对皮尔逊相关系数为0.91–0.98,中文M3ED为0.79–0.85,人类硬标签与同一语句集上大语言模型虚拟软标签的相关性达0.979,表明保留标注者不确定性的流程可连接计算情绪动力学与既有心理学理论。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Emotions evolve through the dynamics of conversation, and understanding their transition structure is foundational to applications ranging from mental-health screening to dialogue systems. However, existing studies typically compress multi-rater judgments into a single hard label by majority voting, discarding the uncertainty signal needed to understand turn-to-turn transitions. In this article, we propose Bayesian Spectral Emotion Transition Discovery (BSETD), a two-stage framework that discovers emotion-transition structure from multi-rater soft labels. In the first stage, a hierarchical Dirichlet-Multinomial posterior is constructed through the outer product of soft labels, equipping each cell of the K x K transition matrix with a credible interval and Benjamini-Hochberg (BH) false discovery rate (FDR)-controlled significance. In the second stage, the symmetrized graph Laplacian is spectrally decomposed to separate a low-frequency (inertia) component from a high-frequency (contagion) component. On EmotionLines, BSETD simultaneously recovers the signatures of two distinct affective spaces: the Plutchik-adjacent transitions disgust to anger (log2 lift +0.94) and anger to disgust (+0.86) are over-represented, while the Russell-valence-reversed transitions joy to anger (-0.90) and anger to joy (-0.89) are under-represented. A five-source cross-corpus validation yields pairwise Pearson correlations in 0.91-0.98 within English, 0.79-0.85 against Chinese M3ED, and 0.979 between the human hard labels and the LLM virtual soft labels on the same utterance set, demonstrating that a pipeline preserving annotator uncertainty bridges the computational study of emotion dynamics with established psychological theory.
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