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Previous research on empathetic dialogue systems has mostly focused on generating responses given certain emotions. However, being empathetic not only requires the ability of generating emotional responses, but more importantly, requires…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Zhaojiang Lin , Andrea Madotto , Jamin Shin , Peng Xu , Pascale Fung

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

Emotions play a central role in human communication, shaping trust, engagement, and social interaction. As artificial intelligence systems powered by large language models become increasingly integrated into everyday life, enabling them to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-11 Soumya Dutta

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

Affective computing stands at the forefront of artificial intelligence (AI), seeking to imbue machines with the ability to comprehend and respond to human emotions. Central to this field is emotion recognition, which endeavors to identify…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Fei Ma , Yucheng Yuan , Yifan Xie , Hongwei Ren , Ivan Liu , Ying He , Fuji Ren , Fei Richard Yu , Shiguang Ni

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

The ability to modulate vocal sounds and generate speech is one of the features which set humans apart from other living beings. The human voice can be characterized by several attributes such as pitch, timbre, loudness, and vocal tone. It…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-30 Poorna Banerjee Dasgupta

Emotion detection in dialogues is challenging as it often requires the identification of thematic topics underlying a conversation, the relevant commonsense knowledge, and the intricate transition patterns between the affective states. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Lixing Zhu , Gabriele Pergola , Lin Gui , Deyu Zhou , Yulan He

In this paper, we have defined a novel task of affective feedback synthesis that deals with generating feedback for input text & corresponding image in a similar way as humans respond towards the multimodal data. A feedback synthesis system…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Puneet Kumar , Gaurav Bhat , Omkar Ingle , Daksh Goyal , Balasubramanian Raman

Empathetic response generation endows agents with the capability to comprehend dialogue contexts and react to expressed emotions. Previous works predominantly focus on leveraging the speaker's emotional labels, but ignore the importance of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Xinhao Chen , Chong Yang , Man Lan , Li Cai , Yang Chen , Tu Hu , Xinlin Zhuang , Aimin Zhou

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

Empathy indicates an individual's ability to understand others. Over the past few years, empathy has drawn attention from various disciplines, including but not limited to Affective Computing, Cognitive Science, and Psychology. Detecting…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Md Rakibul Hasan , Md Zakir Hossain , Shreya Ghosh , Aneesh Krishna , Tom Gedeon

The emotion recognition in conversation (ERC) task aims to predict the emotion label of an utterance in a conversation. Since the dependencies between speakers are complex and dynamic, which consist of intra- and inter-speaker dependencies,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Yinan Bao , Qianwen Ma , Lingwei Wei , Wei Zhou , Songlin Hu

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

In empathetic conversations, humans express their empathy to others with empathetic intents. However, most existing empathetic conversational methods suffer from a lack of empathetic intents, which leads to monotonous empathy. To address…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Mao Yan Chen , Siheng Li , Yujiu Yang

The development of agents with emotional intelligence is becoming increasingly vital due to their significant role in human-computer interaction and the growing integration of computer systems across various sectors of society. Affective…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Raziyeh Zall , Alireza Kheyrkhah , Erik Cambria , Zahra Naseri , M. Reza Kangavari

Empathetic response from the therapist is key to the success of clinical psychotherapy, especially motivational interviewing. Previous work on computational modelling of empathy in motivational interviewing has focused on offline,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Zixiu Wu , Rim Helaoui , Vivek Kumar , Diego Reforgiato Recupero , Daniele Riboni

Emotion significantly impacts our daily behaviors and interactions. While recent generative AI models, such as large language models, have shown impressive performance in various tasks, it remains unclear whether they truly comprehend…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Cheng Li , Jindong Wang , Yixuan Zhang , Kaijie Zhu , Xinyi Wang , Wenxin Hou , Jianxun Lian , Fang Luo , Qiang Yang , Xing Xie

This paper presents an end-to-end pipeline for generating character-specific, emotion-aware speech from comics. The proposed system takes full comic volumes as input and produces speech aligned with each character's dialogue and emotional…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Zhiwen Qian , Jinhua Liang , Huan Zhang

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