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Emotional support is a crucial skill for many real-world scenarios, including caring for the elderly, mental health support, and customer service chats. This paper presents a novel task of empathetic dialog generation with positive emotion…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Shihang Wang , Xinchao Xu , Wenquan Wu , Zheng-Yu Niu , Hua Wu , Haifeng Wang

Empathy is critical to successful mental health support. Empathy measurement has predominantly occurred in synchronous, face-to-face settings, and may not translate to asynchronous, text-based contexts. Because millions of people use…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Ashish Sharma , Adam S. Miner , David C. Atkins , Tim Althoff

Target-guided response generation enables dialogue systems to smoothly transition a conversation from a dialogue context toward a target sentence. Such control is useful for designing dialogue systems that direct a conversation toward…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Prakhar Gupta , Harsh Jhamtani , Jeffrey P. Bigham

Recently, there has been a heightened interest in building chatbots based on Large Language Models (LLMs) to emulate human-like qualities in multi-turn conversations. Despite having access to commonsense knowledge to better understand the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Lanrui Wang , Jiangnan Li , Chenxu Yang , Zheng Lin , Hongyin Tang , Huan Liu , Yanan Cao , Jingang Wang , Weiping Wang

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

Generating emotionally appropriate responses in conversations with large language models presents a significant challenge due to the complexities of human emotions and cognitive processes, which remain largely underexplored in their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-21 June M. Liu , He Cao , Renliang Sun , Rui Wang , Yu Li , Jiaxing Zhang

In this work, we introduce the Keep Emotional and Essential Memory (KEEM) dataset, a novel generation-based dataset designed to enhance memory updates in long-term conversational systems. Unlike existing approaches that rely on simple…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Jeonghyun Kang , Hongjin Kim , Harksoo Kim

Empathetic dialogue is an indispensable part of building harmonious social relationships and contributes to the development of a helpful AI. Previous approaches are mainly based on fine small-scale language models. With the advent of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Yushan Qian , Wei-Nan Zhang , Ting 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

The crisis of mental health issues is escalating. Effective counseling serves as a critical lifeline for individuals suffering from conditions like PTSD, stress, etc. Therapists forge a crucial therapeutic bond with clients, steering them…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Aseem Srivastava , Gauri Naik , Alison Cerezo , Tanmoy Chakraborty , Md. Shad Akhtar

Empathetic response generation is increasingly significant in AI, necessitating nuanced emotional and cognitive understanding coupled with articulate response expression. Current large language models (LLMs) excel in response expression;…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Zhou Yang , Zhaochun Ren , Wang Yufeng , Shizhong Peng , Haizhou Sun , Xiaofei Zhu , Xiangwen Liao

The study illustrates a first step towards an ongoing work aimed at developing a dataset of dialogues potentially useful for customer service conversation management between humans and AI chatbots. The approach exploits ChatGPT 3.5 to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Alfredo Cuzzocrea , Giovanni Pilato , Pablo Garcia Bringas

In the early stages of the design process, designers explore opportunities by discovering unmet needs and developing innovative concepts as potential solutions. From a human-centered design perspective, designers must develop empathy with…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Qihao Zhu , Jianxi Luo

Empathy is a critical factor in fostering positive user experiences in conversational AI. While models can display empathy, it is often generic rather than tailored to specific tasks and contexts. In this work, we introduce a novel…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Erfan Shayegani , Jina Suh , Andy Wilson , Nagu Rangan , Javier Hernandez

Multimodal empathetic response generation (MERG) aims to generate emotionally engaging and empathetic responses based on users' multimodal contexts. Existing approaches usually rely on an implicit one-pass generation paradigm from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Liping Wang , Cheng Ye , Weidong Chen , Peipei Song , Bo Hu , Zhendong Mao

In this paper, we address the task of utterance level emotion recognition in conversations using commonsense knowledge. We propose COSMIC, a new framework that incorporates different elements of commonsense such as mental states, events,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Deepanway Ghosal , Navonil Majumder , Alexander Gelbukh , Rada Mihalcea , Soujanya Poria

This paper introduces AFEC, an automatically curated knowledge graph based on people's day-to-day casual conversations. The knowledge captured in this graph bears potential for conversational systems to understand how people offer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Yubo Xie , Junze Li , Pearl Pu

Building a socially intelligent agent involves many challenges, one of which is to teach the agent to speak guided by its value like a human. However, value-driven chatbots are still understudied in the area of dialogue systems. Most…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Liang Qiu , Yizhou Zhao , Jinchao Li , Pan Lu , Baolin Peng , Jianfeng Gao , Song-Chun Zhu

Open-domain conversational agents or chatbots are becoming increasingly popular in the natural language processing community. One of the challenges is enabling them to converse in an empathetic manner. Current neural response generation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Anuradha Welivita , Pearl Pu

This paper provides preliminary results on exploring the task of performing turn-level data augmentation for dialogue system based on different types of commonsense relationships, and the automatic evaluation of the generated synthetic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Marcos Estecha-Garitagoitia , Chen Zhang , Mario Rodríguez-Cantelar , Luis Fernando D'Haro