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Dialogue systems for mental health care aim to provide appropriate support to individuals experiencing mental distress. While extensive research has been conducted to deliver adequate emotional support, existing studies cannot identify…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Seungyeon Seo , Gary Geunbae Lee

Emotional Support Conversation requires not only affective expression but also grounded instrumental support to provide trustworthy guidance. However, existing ESC systems and benchmarks largely focus on affective support in text-only…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Xingyu Sui , Yanyan Zhao , Yulin Hu , Jiahe Guo , Weixiang Zhao , Bing Qin

The construction of open-domain dialogue systems requires high-quality dialogue datasets. The dialogue data admits a wide variety of responses for a given dialogue history, especially responses with different semantics. However, collecting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Jiao Ou , Jinchao Zhang , Yang Feng , Jie Zhou

The training of task-oriented dialogue systems is often confronted with the lack of annotated data. In contrast to previous work which augments training data through expensive crowd-sourcing efforts, we propose four different automatic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-06 Jun Quan , Deyi Xiong

While there exist strong benchmark datasets for grammatical error correction (GEC), high-quality annotated spoken datasets for Spoken GEC (SGEC) are still under-resourced. In this paper, we propose a fully automated method to generate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Penny Karanasou , Mengjie Qian , Stefano Bannò , Mark J. F. Gales , Kate M. Knill

Emotion Support Conversation (ESC) is an emerging and challenging task with the goal of reducing the emotional distress of people. Previous attempts fail to maintain smooth transitions between utterances in ESC because they ignore to grasp…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Weixiang Zhao , Yanyan Zhao , Shilong Wang , Bing Qin

Emotional Support Conversation (ESC) aims to assist individuals experiencing distress by generating empathetic and supportive dialogue. While prior work typically assumes that each supporter turn corresponds to a single strategy, real-world…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Jie Zhu , Huaixia Dou , Junhui Li , Lifan Guo , Feng Chen , Jinsong Su , Chi Zhang , Fang Kong

Understanding the reason for emotional support response is crucial for establishing connections between users and emotional support dialogue systems. Previous works mostly focus on generating better responses but ignore interpretability,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Tenggan Zhang , Xinjie Zhang , Jinming Zhao , Li Zhou , Qin Jin

How do we communicate with others to achieve our goals? We use our prior experience or advice from others, or construct a candidate utterance by predicting how it will be received. However, our experiences are limited and biased, and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Ryan Liu , Howard Yen , Raja Marjieh , Thomas L. Griffiths , Ranjay Krishna

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

Emotional Support Conversation (ESC) plays a critical role in mental health assistance by providing accessible psychological support in real-world applications. Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown strong empathetic abilities in ESC…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Lin Zhong , Renjin Zhu , Shujuan Ma , Jinhao Cui , Lingzhi Wang , Hao Chen , Qing Liao

Recent advancements in conversational systems have significantly enhanced human-machine interactions across various domains. However, training these systems is challenging due to the scarcity of specialized dialogue data. Traditionally,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Heydar Soudani , Roxana Petcu , Evangelos Kanoulas , Faegheh Hasibi

Current state-of-the-art neural dialogue models learn from human conversations following the data-driven paradigm. As such, a reliable training corpus is the crux of building a robust and well-behaved dialogue model. However, due to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-12 Hengyi Cai , Hongshen Chen , Yonghao Song , Cheng Zhang , Xiaofang Zhao , Dawei Yin

Task-oriented dialogue systems have been plagued by the difficulties of obtaining large-scale and high-quality annotated conversations. Furthermore, most of the publicly available datasets only include written conversations, which are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Xin Tian , Xinxian Huang , Dongfeng He , Yingzhan Lin , Siqi Bao , Huang He , Liankai Huang , Qiang Ju , Xiyuan Zhang , Jian Xie , Shuqi Sun , Fan Wang , Hua Wu , Haifeng Wang

There is growing interest in the automated extraction of relevant information from clinical dialogues. However, it is difficult to collect and construct large annotated resources for clinical dialogue tasks. Recent developments in natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Zhengyuan Liu , Pavitra Krishnaswamy , Nancy F. Chen

Large models, encompassing large language and diffusion models, have shown exceptional promise in approximating human-level intelligence, garnering significant interest from both academic and industrial spheres. However, the training of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Yue Zhou , Chenlu Guo , Xu Wang , Yi Chang , Yuan Wu

Most prior work on task-oriented dialogue systems are restricted to limited coverage of domain APIs. However, users oftentimes have requests that are out of the scope of these APIs. This work focuses on responding to these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Di Jin , Seokhwan Kim , Dilek Hakkani-Tur

As sharing images in an instant message is a crucial factor, there has been active research on learning an image-text multi-modal dialogue models. However, training a well-generalized multi-modal dialogue model remains challenging due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Young-Jun Lee , Byungsoo Ko , Han-Gyu Kim , Jonghwan Hyeon , Ho-Jin Choi

This paper proposes a framework to address the issue of data scarcity in Document-Grounded Dialogue Systems(DGDS). Our model leverages high-resource languages to enhance the capability of dialogue generation in low-resource languages.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Qi Gou , Zehua Xia , Wenzhe Du

Retrieval-based conversational systems learn to rank response candidates for a given dialogue context by computing the similarity between their vector representations. However, training on a single textual form of the multi-turn context…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Lahari Poddar , Peiyao Wang , Julia Reinspach