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With the advent of generative AI and large language models, embodied conversational agents are becoming synonymous with online interactions. These agents possess vast amounts of knowledge but suffer from exhibiting limited emotional…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Abhishek Kulkarni , Alexander Barquero , Pavitra Lahari , Aryaan Shaikh , Sarah Brown

Trainable chatbots that exhibit fluent and human-like conversations remain a big challenge in artificial intelligence. Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) is promising for addressing this challenge, but its successful application remains an…

Conversational agents, such as chatbots and virtual assistants, have become essential in software development, boosting productivity, collaboration, and automating various tasks. This paper examines the role of adaptive AI-powered…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Omar Elsisi , Glaucia Melo

Deep learning has been widely adopted in automatic emotion recognition and has lead to significant progress in the field. However, due to insufficient annotated emotion datasets, pre-trained models are limited in their generalization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Dung Nguyen , Sridha Sridharan , Duc Thanh Nguyen , Simon Denman , David Dean , Clinton Fookes

Customer service chatbots are conversational systems designed to provide information to customers about products/services offered by different companies. Particularly, intent recognition is one of the core components in the natural language…

In human conversation, empathic dialogue requires nuanced temporal cues indicating whether the conversational partner is paying attention. This type of "active listening" is overlooked in the design of Conversational Agents (CAs), which use…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Zhihan Jiang , Qianhui Chen , Chu Zhang , Yanheng Li , Ray LC

The consistency of a response to a given post at semantic-level and emotional-level is essential for a dialogue system to deliver human-like interactions. However, this challenge is not well addressed in the literature, since most of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Wei Wei , Jiayi Liu , Xianling Mao , Guibing Guo , Feida Zhu , Pan Zhou , Yuchong Hu

We introduce the concept of "empathic grounding" in conversational agents as an extension of Clark's conceptualization of grounding in conversation in which the grounding criterion includes listener empathy for the speaker's affective…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Mehdi Arjmand , Farnaz Nouraei , Ian Steenstra , Timothy Bickmore

We propose ChatGPT-EDSS, an empathetic dialogue speech synthesis (EDSS) method using ChatGPT for extracting dialogue context. ChatGPT is a chatbot that can deeply understand the content and purpose of an input prompt and appropriately…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Yuki Saito , Shinnosuke Takamichi , Eiji Iimori , Kentaro Tachibana , Hiroshi Saruwatari

We present a review of personality in neural conversational agents (CAs), also called chatbots. First, we define Personality, Persona, and Profile. We explain all personality schemes which have been used in CAs, and list models under the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Richard Sutcliffe

Speech emotions play a crucial role in human-computer interaction, shaping engagement and context-aware communication. Despite recent advances in spoken dialogue systems, a holistic system for evaluating emotional reasoning is still…

Demand for image editing has been increasing as users' desire for expression is also increasing. However, for most users, image editing tools are not easy to use since the tools require certain expertise in photo effects and have complex…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Hyounghun Kim , Doo Soon Kim , Seunghyun Yoon , Franck Dernoncourt , Trung Bui , Mohit Bansal

Conversational agents (CAs) have the great potential in mitigating the clinicians' burden in screening for neurocognitive disorders among older adults. It is important, therefore, to develop CAs that can be engaging, to elicit…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Zijian Ding , Jiawen Kang , Tinky Oi Ting HO , Ka Ho Wong , Helene H. Fung , Helen Meng , Xiaojuan Ma

Human conversations naturally evolve around different topics and fluently move between them. In research on dialog systems, the ability to actively and smoothly transition to new topics is often ignored. In this paper we introduce TIAGE, a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Huiyuan Xie , Zhenghao Liu , Chenyan Xiong , Zhiyuan Liu , Ann Copestake

In the realm of human-AI dialogue, the facilitation of empathetic responses is important. Validation is one of the key communication techniques in psychology, which entails recognizing, understanding, and acknowledging others' emotional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Zi Haur Pang , Yahui Fu , Divesh Lala , Keiko Ochi , Koji Inoue , Tatsuya Kawahara

Emerging reports of the harms caused to children and adults by AI sycophancy and by parasocial ties with chatbots point to an urgent need for safeguards against such risks. Yet, preventing such dynamics is challenging: parasocial cues often…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Emma Rath , Stuart Armstrong , Rebecca Gorman

In this paper, we proposed a transfer learning-based English language learning chatbot, whose output generated by GPT-2 can be explained by corresponding ontology graph rooted by fine-tuning dataset. We design three levels for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Nuobei Shi , Qin Zeng , Raymond Lee

Chatbot is a technology that is used to mimic human behavior using natural language. There are different types of Chatbot that can be used as conversational agent in various business domains in order to increase the customer service and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Nazakat Ali

In this paper, we present CAIO, a Cognitive and Affective Interaction-Oriented architecture for social human-robot interactions (HRI), allowing robots to reason on mental states (including emotions), and to act physically, emotionally and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-10-26 Damien Pellier , Carole Adam , Wafa Johal , Humbert Fiorino , Sylvie Pesty

Spoken language understanding, which extracts intents and/or semantic concepts in utterances, is conventionally formulated as a post-processing of automatic speech recognition. It is usually trained with oracle transcripts, but needs to…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Viet-Trung Dang , Tianyu Zhao , Sei Ueno , Hirofumi Inaguma , Tatsuya Kawahara