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In this work, we propose a method for neural dialogue response generation that allows not only generating semantically reasonable responses according to the dialogue history, but also explicitly controlling the sentiment of the response via…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Xiang Kong , Bohan Li , Graham Neubig , Eduard Hovy , Yiming Yang

Empathetic response generation aims to generate empathetic responses by understanding the speaker's emotional feelings from the language of dialogue. Recent methods capture emotional words in the language of communicators and construct them…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Zhou Yang , Zhaochun Ren , Yufeng Wang , Xiaofei Zhu , Zhihao Chen , Tiecheng Cai , Yunbing Wu , Yisong Su , Sibo Ju , Xiangwen Liao

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

Recent years have witnessed great progress on building emotional chatbots. Tremendous methods have been proposed for chatbots to generate responses with given emotions. However, the emotion changes of the user during the conversation has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-19 Hao Jiang , Yutao Zhu , Xinyu Zhang , Zhicheng Dou , Pan Du , Te Pi , Yantao Jia

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

Recent approaches to empathetic response generation try to incorporate commonsense knowledge or reasoning about the causes of emotions to better understand the user's experiences and feelings. However, these approaches mainly focus on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Yahui Fu , Koji Inoue , Chenhui Chu , Tatsuya Kawahara

Empathy is an important characteristic to be considered when building a more intelligent and humanized dialogue agent. However, existing methods did not fully comprehend empathy as a complex process involving three aspects: cognition,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Pan Gao , Donghong Han , Rui Zhou , Xuejiao Zhang , Zikun Wang

Open-domain conversational agents or chatbots are becoming increasingly popular in the natural language processing community. One of the challenges is enabling them to converse in an empathetic manner. Current neural response generation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Anuradha Welivita , Pearl Pu

Enabling empathetic behavior in Arabic dialogue agents is an important aspect of building human-like conversational models. While Arabic Natural Language Processing has seen significant advances in Natural Language Understanding (NLU) with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Tarek Naous , Wissam Antoun , Reem A. Mahmoud , Hazem Hajj

Perception and expression of emotion are key factors to the success of dialogue systems or conversational agents. However, this problem has not been studied in large-scale conversation generation so far. In this paper, we propose Emotional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-04 Hao Zhou , Minlie Huang , Tianyang Zhang , Xiaoyan Zhu , Bing Liu

Empathetic speech dialogue requires not only understanding linguistic content but also perceiving rich paralinguistic information such as prosody, tone, and emotional intensity for affective understandings. Existing speech-to-speech large…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-26 Zhuoyue Gao , Xiaohui Wang , Xiaocui Yang , Wen Zhang , Daling Wang , Shi Feng , Yifei Zhang

In this paper, drawing intuition from the Turing test, we propose using adversarial training for open-domain dialogue generation: the system is trained to produce sequences that are indistinguishable from human-generated dialogue…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Jiwei Li , Will Monroe , Tianlin Shi , Sébastien Jean , Alan Ritter , Dan Jurafsky

The successful emotional conversation system depends on sufficient perception and appropriate expression of emotions. In a real-life conversation, humans firstly instinctively perceive emotions from multi-source information, including the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Yunlong Liang , Fandong Meng , Ying Zhang , Jinan Xu , Yufeng Chen , Jie Zhou

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

The recent application of RNN encoder-decoder models has resulted in substantial progress in fully data-driven dialogue systems, but evaluation remains a challenge. An adversarial loss could be a way to directly evaluate the extent to which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-01-31 Anjuli Kannan , Oriol Vinyals

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 2021-04-12 Wei Wei , Jiayi Liu , Xianling Mao , Guibin Guo , Feida Zhu , Pan Zhou , Yuchong Hu , Shanshan Feng

Measuring empathy in conversation can be challenging, as empathy is a complex and multifaceted psychological construct that involves both cognitive and emotional components. Human evaluations can be subjective, leading to inconsistent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Bushra Amjad , Muhammad Zeeshan , Mirza Omer Beg

Empathetic conversation is psychologically supposed to be the result of conscious alignment and interaction between the cognition and affection of empathy. However, existing empathetic dialogue models usually consider only the affective…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Jinfeng Zhou , Chujie Zheng , Bo Wang , Zheng Zhang , Minlie Huang

Generating personalized responses is one of the major challenges in natural human-robot interaction. Current researches in this field mainly focus on generating responses consistent with the robot's pre-assigned persona, while ignoring the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Bin Li , Hanjun Deng

This paper describes EmoRAG, a system designed to detect perceived emotions in text for SemEval-2025 Task 11, Subtask A: Multi-label Emotion Detection. We focus on predicting the perceived emotions of the speaker from a given text snippet,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Lev Morozov , Aleksandr Mogilevskii , Alexander Shirnin