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Empathy is a crucial factor in open-domain conversations, which naturally shows one's caring and understanding to others. Though several methods have been proposed to generate empathetic responses, existing works often lead to monotonous…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Guanqun Bi , Lei Shen , Yanan Cao , Meng Chen , Yuqiang Xie , Zheng Lin , Xiaodong He

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated surprising performance on many tasks, including writing supportive messages that display empathy. Here, we had these models generate empathic messages in response to posts describing common…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Yoon Kyung Lee , Jina Suh , Hongli Zhan , Junyi Jessy Li , Desmond C. Ong

Large language models (LLMs) have been widely applied in various fields due to their excellent capability for memorizing knowledge and chain of thought (CoT). When these language models are applied in the field of psychological counseling,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Yirong Chen , Xiaofen Xing , Jingkai Lin , Huimin Zheng , Zhenyu Wang , Qi Liu , Xiangmin Xu

The task of empathetic response generation aims to understand what feelings a speaker expresses on his/her experiences and then reply to the speaker appropriately. To solve the task, it is essential to model the content-emotion duality of a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Peiqin Lin , Jiashuo Wang , Hinrich Schütze , Wenjie Li

The majority of existing methods for empathetic response generation rely on the emotion of the context to generate empathetic responses. However, empathy is much more than generating responses with an appropriate emotion. It also often…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-06 Navonil Majumder , Deepanway Ghosal , Devamanyu Hazarika , Alexander Gelbukh , Rada Mihalcea , Soujanya Poria

Apart from the coherence and fluency of responses, an empathetic chatbot emphasizes more on people's feelings. By considering altruistic behaviors between human interaction, empathetic chatbots enable people to get a better interactive and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Jiun-Hao Jhan , Chao-Peng Liu , Shyh-Kang Jeng , Hung-Yi Lee

Empathetic response generation is a desirable aspect of conversational agents, crucial for facilitating engaging and emotionally intelligent multi-turn conversations between humans and machines. Leveraging large language models for this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Ondrej Sotolar , Vojtech Formanek , Alok Debnath , Allison Lahnala , Charles Welch , Lucie FLek

Expressing empathy is important in everyday conversations, and exploring how empathy arises is crucial in automatic response generation. Most previous approaches consider only a single factor that affects empathy. However, in practice,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Yangbin Chen , Chunfeng Liang

Empathetic response generation, aiming to understand the user's situation and feelings and respond empathically, is crucial in building human-like dialogue systems. Traditional approaches typically employ maximum likelihood estimation as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Hui Ma , Bo Zhang , Bo Xu , Jian Wang , Hongfei Lin , Xiao Sun

The majority of current systems for end-to-end dialog generation focus on response quality without an explicit control over the affective content of the responses. In this paper, we present an affect-driven dialog system, which generates…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Pierre Colombo , Wojciech Witon , Ashutosh Modi , James Kennedy , Mubbasir Kapadia

Empathetic response from the therapist is key to the success of clinical psychotherapy, especially motivational interviewing. Previous work on computational modelling of empathy in motivational interviewing has focused on offline,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Zixiu Wu , Rim Helaoui , Vivek Kumar , Diego Reforgiato Recupero , Daniele Riboni

Empathy is critical for effective and satisfactory conversational communication. Prior efforts to measure conversational empathy mostly focus on expressed communicative intents -- that is, the way empathy is expressed. Yet, these works…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Zhichao Xu , Jiepu Jiang

A recent trend in the domain of open-domain conversational agents is enabling them to converse empathetically to emotional prompts. Current approaches either follow an end-to-end approach or condition the responses on similar emotion labels…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Anuradha Welivita , Pearl Pu

Empathetic response generation is designed to comprehend the emotions of others and select the most appropriate strategies to assist them in resolving emotional challenges. Empathy can be categorized into cognitive empathy and affective…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Yuxuan Hu , Minghuan Tan , Chenwei Zhang , Zixuan Li , Xiaodan Liang , Min Yang , Chengming Li , Xiping Hu

Empathetic dialogue is crucial for natural human-computer interaction, allowing the dialogue system to respond in a more personalized and emotionally aware manner, improving user satisfaction and engagement. The emergence of large language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Jingran Xie , Shun Lei , Yue Yu , Yang Xiang , Hui Wang , Xixin Wu , Zhiyong Wu

Empathetic response generation is increasingly significant in AI, necessitating nuanced emotional and cognitive understanding coupled with articulate response expression. Current large language models (LLMs) excel in response expression;…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Zhou Yang , Zhaochun Ren , Wang Yufeng , Shizhong Peng , Haizhou Sun , Xiaofei Zhu , Xiangwen Liao

Empathetic response generation aims to comprehend the cognitive and emotional states in dialogue utterances and generate proper responses. Psychological theories posit that comprehending emotional and cognitive states necessitates…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Zhou Yang , Zhaochun Ren , Yufeng Wang , Chao Chen , Haizhou Sun , Xiaofei Zhu , Xiangwen Liao

Multi-lingual speech recognition aims to distinguish linguistic expressions in different languages and integrate acoustic processing simultaneously. In contrast, current multi-lingual speech recognition research follows a language-aware…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-28 Yoohwan Kwon , Soo-Whan Chung

In this paper, we introduce EmpBot: an end-to-end empathetic chatbot. Empathetic conversational agents should not only understand what is being discussed, but also acknowledge the implied feelings of the conversation partner and respond…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Emmanouil Zaranis , Georgios Paraskevopoulos , Athanasios Katsamanis , Alexandros Potamianos

Previous research has shown that humans are more receptive towards language models that that exhibit empathetic behavior. While empathy is essential for developing helpful dialogue agents, very few large corpora containing empathetic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Run Chen , Jun Shin , Julia Hirschberg