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Visual dialogue is a challenging task that needs to extract implicit information from both visual (image) and textual (dialogue history) contexts. Classical approaches pay more attention to the integration of the current question, vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-31 Xiaoze Jiang , Siyi Du , Zengchang Qin , Yajing Sun , Jing Yu

This article presents two studies conducted with an affective dialogue system in which text-based system-user communication was used to model, generate, and present different affective and social interaction scenarios. We specifically…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2014-06-09 Marcin Skowron , Stefan Rank , Aleksandra Świderska , Dennis Küster , Arvid Kappas

Automatic emotion recognition in conversation (ERC) is crucial for emotion-aware conversational artificial intelligence. This paper proposes a distribution-based framework that formulates ERC as a sequence-to-sequence problem for emotion…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Wen Wu , Chao Zhang , Philip C. Woodland

In emotion recognition in conversation (ERC), the emotion of the current utterance is predicted by considering the previous context, which can be utilized in many natural language processing tasks. Although multiple emotions can coexist in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Joosung Lee

Unlike empathetic dialogues, the system in emotional support conversations (ESC) is expected to not only convey empathy for comforting the help-seeker, but also proactively assist in exploring and addressing their problems during the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Yang Deng , Wenxuan Zhang , Yifei Yuan , Wai Lam

Understanding and predicting the emotional trajectory in multi-party multi-turn conversations is of great significance. Such information can be used, for example, to generate empathetic response in human-machine interaction or to inform…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Enas Altarawneh , Ameeta Agrawal , Michael Jenkin , Manos Papagelis

Multimodal emotion recognition in conversation (MERC) seeks to identify the speakers' emotions expressed in each utterance, offering significant potential across diverse fields. The challenge of MERC lies in balancing speaker modeling and…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Zijian Yi , Ziming Zhao , Zhishu Shen , Tiehua Zhang

Knowledge graphs can represent information about the real-world using entities and their relations in a structured and semantically rich manner and they enable a variety of downstream applications such as question-answering, recommendation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Hanieh Khorashadizadeh , Nandana Mihindukulasooriya , Sanju Tiwari , Jinghua Groppe , Sven Groppe

State-of-the-art neural dialogue systems excel at syntactic and semantic modelling of language, but often have a hard time establishing emotional alignment with the human interactant during a conversation. In this work, we bring Affect…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-17 Nabiha Asghar , Ivan Kobyzev , Jesse Hoey , Pascal Poupart , Muhammad Bilal Sheikh

How are emotions formed? Through extensive debate and the promulgation of diverse theories , the theory of constructed emotion has become prevalent in recent research on emotions. According to this theory, an emotion concept refers to a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-27 Kazuki Tsurumaki , Chie Hieida , Kazuki Miyazawa

In conflict, people use emotional expressions to shape their counterparts' thoughts, feelings, and actions. This paper explores whether automatic text emotion recognition offers insight into this influence in the context of dispute…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Sushrita Rakshit , James Hale , Kushal Chawla , Jeanne M. Brett , Jonathan Gratch

Despite the remarkable progress made in synthesizing emotional speech from text, it is still challenging to provide emotion information to existing speech segments. Previous methods mainly rely on parallel data, and few works have studied…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Xiaoqi Jia , Jianwei Tai , Hang Zhou , Yakai Li , Weijuan Zhang , Haichao Du , Qingjia Huang

Grounding dialogue on external knowledge and interpreting linguistic patterns in dialogue history context, such as ellipsis, anaphora, and co-references is critical for dialogue comprehension and generation. In this paper, we present a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Deeksha Varshney , Akshara Prabhakar , Asif Ekbal

To make machines better understand sentiments, research needs to move from polarity identification to understanding the reasons that underlie the expression of sentiment. Categorizing the goals or needs of humans is one way to explain the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Debjit Paul , Anette Frank

Data-driven, knowledge-grounded neural conversation models are capable of generating more informative responses. However, these models have not yet demonstrated that they can zero-shot adapt to updated, unseen knowledge graphs. This paper…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-03 Yi-Lin Tuan , Yun-Nung Chen , Hung-yi Lee

Empathy is central to human connection, yet people often struggle to express it effectively. In blinded evaluations, large language models (LLMs) generate responses that are often judged more empathic than human-written ones. Yet when a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Aakriti Kumar , Nalin Poungpeth , Diyi Yang , Bruce Lambert , Matthew Groh

Knowledge graph-based dialogue generation (KG-DG) is a challenging task requiring models to effectively incorporate external knowledge into conversational responses. While large language models (LLMs) have achieved impressive results across…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Hadi Sheikhi , Chenyang Huang , Osmar R. Zaïane

Knowledge graph is a popular format for representing knowledge, with many applications to semantic search engines, question-answering systems, and recommender systems. Real-world knowledge graphs are usually incomplete, so knowledge graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Hung Nghiep Tran , Atsuhiro Takasu

Aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA) is a fine-grained task of sentiment analysis. To better comprehend long complicated sentences and obtain accurate aspect-specific information, linguistic and commonsense knowledge are generally…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Qihuang Zhong , Liang Ding , Juhua Liu , Bo Du , Hua Jin , Dacheng Tao

The pre-trained conversational models still fail to capture the implicit commonsense (CS) knowledge hidden in the dialogue interaction, even though they were pre-trained with an enormous dataset. In order to build a dialogue agent with CS…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Ye Liu , Wolfgang Maier , Wolfgang Minker , Stefan Ultes