generation-or-judgement-a-paradigm-perspective-on-llm-based-emotion-cause-pair-extraction-in-conversation-6db210b0·1 events·first seen Aliases: Generation or Judgement? A Paradigm Perspective on LLM-Based Emotion-Cause Pair Extraction in Conversation
A new arXiv paper investigates how task formulation affects LLM performance on emotion-cause pair extraction in conversation (ECPEC), finding that pair-level judgement consistently outperforms dialogue-level generation across 18 controlled comparisons. The authors show LLMs can recognize 92.7–98.1% of emotion-cause relations when queried explicitly but struggle to discover complete pair sets autonomously. They introduce an auxiliary retriever targeting ambiguous boundary cases, achieving F1 improvements of 0.50–1.46 points across three datasets at only 1.49x inference cost. The findings have broader implications for how task decomposition and candidate scoping affect LLM utilization in structured extraction tasks.