HCPRA: A Hierarchical Cognition-Perception-Reasoning Agent Framework for Emotion-Cause Pair Extraction in Conversations.

@inproceedings{wang-2026-hcpra, author = {Botao Wang and Lianwei Wu and Shuhan Guo and Kang Wang and Qingyan Wang and Tingran Zhang and Jiapeng Liu and Hikmat Ullah Khan}, editor = {Hannah Bast and Alistair Moffat and Falk Scholer and Marc Najork and Min Zhang and Hannah Bast and Marc Najork and Min Zhang}, title = {{HCPRA: A Hierarchical Cognition-Perception-Reasoning Agent Framework for Emotion-Cause Pair Extraction in Conversations}}, booktitle = {{Proceedings of the 49th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2026, MelbourneVICAustralia, July 20-24, 2026}}, pages = {1892--1902}, publisher = {ACM}, year = {2026}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3805712.3809665}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3805712.3809665} }