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The rising demand for mental health care has fueled interest in AI-driven counseling systems. While large language models (LLMs) offer significant potential, current approaches face challenges, including limited understanding of clients'…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Zhiyang Qi , Keiko Takamizo , Mariko Ukiyo , Michimasa Inaba

Emotional talking head synthesis aims to generate talking portrait videos with vivid expressions. Existing methods still exhibit limitations in control flexibility, motion naturalness, and expression quality. Moreover, currently available…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Yiguo Jiang , Xiaodong Cun , Yong Zhang , Yudian Zheng , Fan Tang , Chi-Man Pun

Task-oriented dialogue systems help users accomplish tasks such as booking a movie ticket and ordering food via conversation. Generative models parameterized by a deep neural network are widely used for next turn response generation in such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Prasanna Parthasarathi , Arvind Neelakantan , Sharan Narang

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

Recently, utilizing deep neural networks to build the opendomain dialogue models has become a hot topic. However, the responses generated by these models suffer from many problems such as responses not being contextualized and tend to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Mengjuan Liu , Chenyang Liu , Yunfan Yang , Jiang Liu , Mohan Jing

In a rapidly evolving digital landscape autonomous tools and robots are becoming commonplace. Recognizing the significance of this development, this paper explores the integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) like Generative pre-trained…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Younes Lakhnati , Max Pascher , Jens Gerken

This paper proposes an effective emotional text-to-speech (TTS) system with a pre-trained language model (LM)-based emotion prediction method. Unlike conventional systems that require auxiliary inputs such as manually defined emotion…

Empathy is crucial in enabling natural interactions within spoken dialogue systems, allowing machines to recognize and respond appropriately to paralinguistic cues such as age, gender, and emotion. Recent advancements in end-to-end speech…

Messages in human conversations inherently convey emotions. The task of detecting emotions in textual conversations leads to a wide range of applications such as opinion mining in social networks. However, enabling machines to analyze…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Peixiang Zhong , Di Wang , Chunyan Miao

For a computer to naturally interact with a human, it needs to be human-like. In this paper, we propose a neural response generation model with multi-task learning of generation and classification, focusing on emotion. Our model based on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Tatsuya Ide , Daisuke Kawahara

Multimodal conversational agents are highly desirable because they offer natural and human-like interaction. However, there is a lack of comprehensive end-to-end solutions to support collaborative development and benchmarking. While…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Qiang Sun , Yuanyi Luo , Sirui Li , Wenxiao Zhang , Wei Liu

Current approaches to empathetic response generation typically encode the entire dialogue history directly and put the output into a decoder to generate friendly feedback. These methods focus on modelling contextual information but neglect…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Guoqing Lv , Jiang Li , Xiaoping Wang , Zhigang Zeng

Current Emotion Recognition in Conversation (ERC) research follows a closed-domain assumption. However, there is no clear consensus on emotion classification in psychology, which presents a challenge for models when it comes to recognizing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Kun Peng , Cong Cao , Hao Peng , Guanlin Wu , Zhifeng Hao , Lei Jiang , Yanbing Liu , Philip S. Yu

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

Neural generative models have been become increasingly popular when building conversational agents. They offer flexibility, can be easily adapted to new domains, and require minimal domain engineering. A common criticism of these systems is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-29 Chinnadhurai Sankar , Sandeep Subramanian , Christopher Pal , Sarath Chandar , Yoshua Bengio

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

Deep learning (DL) models based on the transformer architecture have revolutionized many DL applications such as large language models (LLMs), vision transformers, audio generation, and time series prediction. Much of this progress has been…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Quentin Anthony , Benjamin Michalowicz , Jacob Hatef , Lang Xu , Mustafa Abduljabbar , Aamir Shafi , Hari Subramoni , Dhabaleswar Panda

The recent release of GPT-4o showcased the potential of end-to-end multimodal models, not just in terms of low latency but also in their ability to understand and generate expressive speech with rich emotions. While the details are unknown…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Chen Wang , Minpeng Liao , Zhongqiang Huang , Junhong Wu , Chengqing Zong , Jiajun Zhang

The dynamics of human-AI communication have been reshaped by language models such as ChatGPT. However, extant research has primarily focused on dyadic communication, leaving much to be explored regarding the dynamics of human-AI…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Sion Yoon , Tae Eun Kim , Yoo Jung Oh

Empathetic response generation aims to comprehend the user emotion and then respond to it appropriately. Most existing works merely focus on what the emotion is and ignore how the emotion is evoked, thus weakening the capacity of the model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Jiashuo Wang , Wenjie LI , Peiqin Lin , Feiteng Mu