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Emotion recognition in conversation (ERC) aims to detect the emotion for each utterance in a given conversation. The newly proposed ERC models have leveraged pre-trained language models (PLMs) with the paradigm of pre-training and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Jingjie Yi , Deqing Yang , Siyu Yuan , Caiyan Cao , Zhiyao Zhang , Yanghua Xiao

Emotion recognition is a topic of significant interest in assistive robotics due to the need to equip robots with the ability to comprehend human behavior, facilitating their effective interaction in our society. Consequently, efficient and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Rutherford Agbeshi Patamia , Paulo E. Santos , Kingsley Nketia Acheampong , Favour Ekong , Kwabena Sarpong , She Kun

The Visual-Dialog Based Emotion Explanation Generation Challenge focuses on generating emotion explanations through visual-dialog interactions in art discussions. Our approach combines state-of-the-art multi-modal models, including Language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Yixiao Yuan , Yingzhe Peng

We propose ChatGPT-EDSS, an empathetic dialogue speech synthesis (EDSS) method using ChatGPT for extracting dialogue context. ChatGPT is a chatbot that can deeply understand the content and purpose of an input prompt and appropriately…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Yuki Saito , Shinnosuke Takamichi , Eiji Iimori , Kentaro Tachibana , Hiroshi Saruwatari

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

Emotion Recognition in Conversation (ERC) is essential for effective human-machine interaction, aiming to identify speakers' emotional states in multi-turn dialogues. Early text-based methods struggle with complex scenarios like sarcasm…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Linan ZHU , Zihao Zhai , Xiao Han , Yuqian Fu , Xiangfan Chen , Xiangjie Kong , Guojiang Shen

Emotion Recognition in Conversation~(ERC) across modalities is of vital importance for a variety of applications, including intelligent healthcare, artificial intelligence for conversation, and opinion mining over chat history. The crux of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Xingwei Liang , You Zou , Ruifeng Xu

Serious Illness Conversations (SICs), discussions about values and care preferences for patients with life-threatening illness, rarely occur in Emergency Departments (EDs), despite evidence that early conversations improve care alignment…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Menglin Zhao , Zhuorui Yong , Ruijia Guan , Kai-Wei Chang , Adrian Haimovich , Kei Ouchi , Timothy Bickmore , Zhan Zhang , Bingsheng Yao , Dakuo Wang , Smit Desai

Emotion recognition in conversation (ERC) has been attracting attention by methods for modeling multi-turn contexts. The multi-turn input to a pretraining model implicitly assumes that the current turn and other turns are distinguished…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Junya Ono , Hiromi Wakaki

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

Advancements in audio foundation models (FMs) have fueled interest in end-to-end (E2E) spoken dialogue systems, but different web interfaces for each system makes it challenging to compare and contrast them effectively. Motivated by this,…

Conversational Causal Emotion Entailment aims to detect causal utterances for a non-neutral targeted utterance from a conversation. In this work, we build conversations as graphs to overcome implicit contextual modelling of the original…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Jiangnan Li , Fandong Meng , Zheng Lin , Rui Liu , Peng Fu , Yanan Cao , Weiping Wang , Jie Zhou

Emotional support conversation aims at reducing the emotional distress of the help-seeker, which is a new and challenging task. It requires the system to explore the cause of help-seeker's emotional distress and understand their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Wei Peng , Yue Hu , Luxi Xing , Yuqiang Xie , Yajing Sun , Yunpeng Li

Due to privacy concerns, open dialogue datasets for mental health are primarily generated through human or AI synthesis methods. However, the inherent implicit nature of psychological processes, particularly those of clients, poses…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Lixiu Wu , Yuanrong Tang , Qisen Pan , Xianyang Zhan , Yucheng Han , Lanxi Xiao , Tianhong Wang , Chen Zhong , Jiangtao Gong

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

Empathy is a crucial factor in open-domain conversations, which naturally shows one's caring and understanding to others. Though several methods have been proposed to generate empathetic responses, existing works often lead to monotonous…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Guanqun Bi , Lei Shen , Yanan Cao , Meng Chen , Yuqiang Xie , Zheng Lin , Xiaodong He

In human communication, both verbal and non-verbal cues play a crucial role in conveying emotions, intentions, and meaning beyond words alone. These non-linguistic information, such as facial expressions, eye contact, voice tone, and pitch,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Se Jin Park , Yeonju Kim , Hyeongseop Rha , Bella Godiva , Yong Man Ro

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated promising potential in providing empathetic support during interactions. However, their responses often become verbose or overly formulaic, failing to adequately address the diverse emotional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Jing Ye , Lu Xiang , Yaping Zhang , Chengqing Zong

While emotional text-to-speech (TTS) has made significant progress, most existing research remains limited to utterance-level emotional expression and fails to support word-level control. Achieving word-level expressive control poses…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-13 Tianrui Wang , Haoyu Wang , Meng Ge , Cheng Gong , Chunyu Qiang , Ziyang Ma , Zikang Huang , Guanrou Yang , Xiaobao Wang , Eng Siong Chng , Xie Chen , Longbiao Wang , Jianwu Dang

The field of emotion recognition of conversation (ERC) has been focusing on separating sentence feature encoding and context modeling, lacking exploration in generative paradigms based on unified designs. In this study, we propose a novel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Shanglin Lei , Guanting Dong , Xiaoping Wang , Keheng Wang , Runqi Qiao , Sirui Wang