Heuristic personality recognition based on fusing multiple conversations and utterance-level affection

Abstract

Personality Recognition in Conversations (PRC) is a task of significant interest and practical value. Existing studies on the PRC task utilize conversation inadequately and neglect affective information. Considering the way of information processing of these studies is not yet close enough to the concept of personality, we propose the SAH-GCN model for the PRC task in this study. This model initially processes the original conversation input to extract the central speaker feature. Leveraging Contrastive Learning, it continuously adjusts the embedding of each utterance by incorporating affective information to cope with the semantic similarity. Subsequently, the model employs Graph Convolutional Networks to simulate the conversation dynamics, ensuring comprehensive interaction between the central speaker feature and other relevant features. Lastly, it heuristically fuses central speaker features from multiple conversations involving the same speaker into one comprehensive feature, facilitating personality recognition. We conduct experiments using the recently released CPED dataset, which is the personality dataset encompassing affection labels and conversation details. Our results demonstrate that SAH-GCN achieves superior accuracy (+1.88%) compared to prior works on the PRC task. Further analysis verifies the efficacy of our scheme that fuses multiple conversations and incorporates affective information for personality recognition.