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Explicitly modeling emotions in dialogue generation has important applications, such as building empathetic personal companions. In this study, we consider the task of expressing a specific emotion for dialogue generation. Previous…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Chengzhang Dong , Chenyang Huang , Osmar Zaïane , Lili Mou

Emotions play a critical role in our everyday lives by altering how we perceive, process and respond to our environment. Affective computing aims to instill in computers the ability to detect and act on the emotions of human actors. A core…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-31 Connor T. Heaton , David M. Schwartz

Advancements in emotion aware language processing increasingly shape vital NLP applications ranging from conversational AI and affective computing to computational psychology and creative content generation. Existing emotion datasets either…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Vishal Gandhi , Sagar Gandhi

Recent research shows that greater numbers of people are turning to Large Language Models (LLMs) for emotional support, and that people rate LLM responses as more empathic than human-written responses. We suggest a reason for this success:…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Emma Gueorguieva , Hongli Zhan , Jina Suh , Javier Hernandez , Tatiana Lau , Junyi Jessy Li , Desmond C. Ong

Human emotional expression is inherently dynamic, complex, and fluid, characterized by smooth transitions in intensity throughout verbal communication. However, the modeling of such intensity fluctuations has been largely overlooked by…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Jingyi Xu , Hieu Le , Zhixin Shu , Yang Wang , Yi-Hsuan Tsai , Dimitris Samaras

Negotiation is a complex social interaction that encapsulates emotional encounters in human decision-making. Virtual agents that can negotiate with humans are useful in pedagogy and conversational AI. To advance the development of such…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-07-29 Kushal Chawla , Rene Clever , Jaysa Ramirez , Gale Lucas , Jonathan Gratch

Speech emotions play a crucial role in human-computer interaction, shaping engagement and context-aware communication. Despite recent advances in spoken dialogue systems, a holistic system for evaluating emotional reasoning is still…

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

As chatbots are becoming increasingly popular, we often wonder what users perceive as natural and socially accepted manners of interacting with them. Some researchers maintain that humans should avoid engaging in emotional conversations…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Ekaterina Svikhnushina , Pearl Pu

With the rapid development of artificial intelligence, conversational bots have became prevalent in mainstream E-commerce platforms, which can provide convenient customer service timely. To satisfy the user, the conversational bots need to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Zhenyu Zhang , Tao Guo , Meng Chen

Recently, emotional talking face generation has received considerable attention. However, existing methods only adopt one-hot coding, image, or audio as emotion conditions, thus lacking flexible control in practical applications and failing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Chao Xu , Junwei Zhu , Jiangning Zhang , Yue Han , Wenqing Chu , Ying Tai , Chengjie Wang , Zhifeng Xie , Yong Liu

We introduce Affective Visual Dialog, an emotion explanation and reasoning task as a testbed for research on understanding the formation of emotions in visually grounded conversations. The task involves three skills: (1) Dialog-based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Kilichbek Haydarov , Xiaoqian Shen , Avinash Madasu , Mahmoud Salem , Li-Jia Li , Gamaleldin Elsayed , Mohamed Elhoseiny

Understanding the process of emotion generation is crucial for analyzing the causes behind emotions. Causal Emotion Entailment (CEE), an emotion-understanding task, aims to identify the causal utterances in a conversation that stimulate the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Zhaopei Huang , Jinming Zhao , Qin Jin

In this paper, a novel Generation-Evaluation framework is developed for multi-turn conversations with the objective of letting both participants know more about each other. For the sake of rational knowledge utilization and coherent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Siqi Bao , Huang He , Fan Wang , Rongzhong Lian , Hua Wu

Empathetic dialogue requires not only recognizing a user's emotional state but also making strategy-aware, context-sensitive decisions throughout response generation. However, the lack of a comprehensive empathy strategy framework, explicit…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Hongru Ji , Yuyin Fan , Meng Zhao , Xianghua Li , Lianwei Wu , Chao Gao

Modern day conversational agents are trained to emulate the manner in which humans communicate. To emotionally bond with the user, these virtual agents need to be aware of the affective state of the user. Transformers are the recent state…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Raman Goel , Seba Susan , Sachin Vashisht , Armaan Dhanda

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

Emotion dynamics modeling is a significant task in emotion recognition in conversation. It aims to predict conversational emotions when building empathetic dialogue systems. Existing studies mainly develop models based on Recurrent Neural…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Haiqin Yang , Jianping Shen

Recent approaches for empathetic response generation mainly focus on emotional resonance and user understanding, without considering the system's personality. Consistent personality is evident in real human expression and is important for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Yahui Fu , Chenhui Chu , Tatsuya Kawahara

Since the late 1990s when speech companies began providing their customer-service software in the market, people have gotten used to speaking to machines. As people interact more often with voice and gesture controlled machines, they expect…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-05-16 Pascale Fung , Dario Bertero , Yan Wan , Anik Dey , Ricky Ho Yin Chan , Farhad Bin Siddique , Yang Yang , Chien-Sheng Wu , Ruixi Lin