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Empathetic conversational models have been shown to improve user satisfaction and task outcomes in numerous domains. In Psychology, persona has been shown to be highly correlated to personality, which in turn influences empathy. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Peixiang Zhong , Chen Zhang , Hao Wang , Yong Liu , Chunyan Miao

Emotion recognition in conversations is a challenging task that has recently gained popularity due to its potential applications. Until now, however, a large-scale multimodal multi-party emotional conversational database containing more…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Soujanya Poria , Devamanyu Hazarika , Navonil Majumder , Gautam Naik , Erik Cambria , Rada Mihalcea

We introduce GODEL (Grounded Open Dialogue Language Model), a large pre-trained language model for dialog. In contrast with earlier models such as DialoGPT, GODEL leverages a new phase of grounded pre-training designed to better support…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Baolin Peng , Michel Galley , Pengcheng He , Chris Brockett , Lars Liden , Elnaz Nouri , Zhou Yu , Bill Dolan , Jianfeng Gao

We present Empathic Prompting, a novel framework for multimodal human-AI interaction that enriches Large Language Model (LLM) conversations with implicit non-verbal context. The system integrates a commercial facial expression recognition…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Lorenzo Stacchio , Andrea Ubaldi , Alessandro Galdelli , Maurizio Mauri , Emanuele Frontoni , Andrea Gaggioli

State-of-the-art speech synthesis models try to get as close as possible to the human voice. Hence, modelling emotions is an essential part of Text-To-Speech (TTS) research. In our work, we selected FastSpeech2 as the starting point and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-04 Daria Diatlova , Vitaly Shutov

Prior efforts to create an autonomous computer system capable of predicting what a human being is thinking or feeling from facial expression data have been largely based on outdated, inaccurate models of how emotions work that rely on many…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-08-06 Trevor Buteau , Damian Lyons

To address the limitation in multimodal emotion recognition (MER) performance arising from inter-modal information fusion, we propose a novel MER framework based on multitask learning where fusion occurs after alignment, called Foal-Net.…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Qifei Li , Yingming Gao , Yuhua Wen , Cong Wang , Ya Li

Multi-modal conversation emotion recognition (MCER) aims to recognize and track the speaker's emotional state using text, speech, and visual information in the conversation scene. Analyzing and studying MCER issues is significant to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Yuntao Shou , Tao Meng , Wei Ai , Fangze Fu , Nan Yin , Keqin Li

Analyzing individual emotions during group conversation is crucial in developing intelligent agents capable of natural human-machine interaction. While reliable emotion recognition techniques depend on different modalities (text, audio,…

The increasing use of dialogue agents makes it extremely desirable for them to understand and acknowledge the implied emotions to respond like humans with empathy. Chatbots using traditional techniques analyze emotions based on the context…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Akhilesh Ravi , Amit Yadav , Jainish Chauhan , Jatin Dholakia , Naman Jain , Mayank Singh

Responsing with image has been recognized as an important capability for an intelligent conversational agent. Yet existing works only focus on exploring the multimodal dialogue models which depend on retrieval-based methods, but neglecting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Qingfeng Sun , Yujing Wang , Can Xu , Kai Zheng , Yaming Yang , Huang Hu , Fei Xu , Jessica Zhang , Xiubo Geng , Daxin Jiang

Existing English-teaching chatbots rarely incorporate empathy explicitly in their feedback, but empathetic feedback could help keep students engaged and reduce learner anxiety. Toward this end, we propose the task of negative emotion…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Li Siyan , Teresa Shao , Zhou Yu , Julia Hirschberg

This paper presents a novel open-domain dialogue generation model emphasizing the differentiation of speakers in multi-turn conversations. Differing from prior work that solely relies on the content of conversation history to generate a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Zihao Wang , Ming Jiang , Junli Wang

Empathy is a cognitive and emotional reaction to an observed situation of others. Empathy has recently attracted interest because it has numerous applications in psychology and AI, but it is unclear how different forms of empathy (e.g.,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Damilola Omitaomu , Shabnam Tafreshi , Tingting Liu , Sven Buechel , Chris Callison-Burch , Johannes Eichstaedt , Lyle Ungar , João Sedoc

To provide consistent emotional interaction with users, dialog systems should be capable to automatically select appropriate emotions for responses like humans. However, most existing works focus on rendering specified emotions in responses…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Wen Zhiyuan , Cao Jiannong , Yang Ruosong , Liu Shuaiqi , Shen Jiaxing

Why do we give the explanations we do? Recent work has suggested that we should think of explanation as a kind of cooperative social interaction, between a why-question-asker and an explainer. Here, we apply this perspective to consider the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Katherine M. Collins , Kartik Chandra , Adrian Weller , Jonathan Ragan-Kelley , Joshua B. Tenenbaum

Despite the increasing research interest in end-to-end learning systems for speech emotion recognition, conventional systems either suffer from the overfitting due in part to the limited training data, or do not explicitly consider the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-01 Zixing Zhang , Bingwen Wu , Bjoern Schuller

With the advancement of large language models, many dialogue systems are now capable of providing reasonable and informative responses to patients' medical conditions. However, when patients consult their doctor, they may experience…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Shang-Chi Tsai , Yun-Nung Chen

Several works have developed end-to-end pipelines for generating lip-synced talking faces with various real-world applications, such as teaching and language translation in videos. However, these prior works fail to create realistic-looking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Sahil Goyal , Shagun Uppal , Sarthak Bhagat , Yi Yu , Yifang Yin , Rajiv Ratn Shah

We aim to overcome the lack of diversity in responses of current dialogue systems and to develop a dialogue system that is engaging as a conversational partner. We propose a generator-evaluator model that evaluates multiple responses…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Ryoma Sakaeda , Daisuke Kawahara