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Multimodal conversation, a crucial form of human communication, carries rich emotional content, making the exploration of the causes of emotions within it a research endeavor of significant importance. However, existing research on the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Lin Wang , Xiaocui Yang , Shi Feng , Daling Wang , Yifei Zhang , Zhitao Zhang

Spoken Dialogue Models (SDMs) have advanced rapidly, yet their ability to sustain genuinely interactive multi-turn conversations remains underexplored, as most benchmarks focus on single-turn exchanges. We introduce Multi-Bench, the first…

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Emotion recognition in conversations is essential for ensuring advanced human-machine interactions. However, creating robust and accurate emotion recognition systems in real life is challenging, mainly due to the scarcity of emotion…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Théo Deschamps-Berger , Lori Lamel , Laurence Devillers

Conversational agents have made significant progress since ELIZA, expanding their role across various domains, including healthcare, education, and customer service. As these agents become increasingly integrated into daily human…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Paulo Ricardo Knob , Leonardo Scholler , Juliano Rigatti , Soraia Raupp Musse

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

The development of conversational agents to interact with patients and deliver clinical advice has attracted the interest of many researchers, particularly in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. The training of an end-to-end neural based dialog…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Deeksha Varshney , Aizan Zafar , Niranshu Kumar Behra , Asif Ekbal

The study of multimodal interaction in therapy can yield a comprehensive understanding of therapist and patient behavior that can be used to develop a multimodal virtual agent supporting therapy. This investigation aims to uncover how…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Lucie Galland , Catherine Pelachaud , Florian Pecune

Next generation task-oriented dialog systems need to understand conversational contexts with their perceived surroundings, to effectively help users in the real-world multimodal environment. Existing task-oriented dialog datasets aimed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Satwik Kottur , Seungwhan Moon , Alborz Geramifard , Babak Damavandi

In human-computer interaction, it is crucial for agents to respond to human by understanding their emotions. Unraveling the causes of emotions is more challenging. A new task named Multimodal Emotion-Cause Pair Extraction in Conversations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Shen Zhang , Haojie Zhang , Jing Zhang , Xudong Zhang , Yimeng Zhuang , Jinting Wu

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

Automated dialogue systems are important applications of artificial intelligence, and traditional systems struggle to understand user emotions and provide empathetic feedback. This study integrates emotional intelligence technology into…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Jin Wang , JinFei Wang , Shuying Dai , Jiqiang Yu , Keqin Li

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

With the advent of generative AI and large language models, embodied conversational agents are becoming synonymous with online interactions. These agents possess vast amounts of knowledge but suffer from exhibiting limited emotional…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Abhishek Kulkarni , Alexander Barquero , Pavitra Lahari , Aryaan Shaikh , Sarah Brown

Recent advances in conversational AI have demonstrated impressive capabilities in single-turn responses, yet multi-turn dialogues remain challenging for even the most sophisticated language models. Current dialogue datasets are limited in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Alkis Koudounas , Moreno La Quatra , Elena Baralis

Social chatbots have gained immense popularity, and their appeal lies not just in their capacity to respond to the diverse requests from users, but also in the ability to develop an emotional connection with users. To further develop and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Avinash Madasu , Mauajama Firdaus , Asif Eqbal

Human conversation involves language, speech, and visual cues, with each medium providing complementary information. For instance, speech conveys a vibe or tone not fully captured by text alone. While multimodal LLMs focus on generating…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Taesoo Kim , Yongsik Jo , Hyunmin Song , Taehwan Kim

Emotion cause analysis has received considerable attention in recent years. Previous studies primarily focused on emotion cause extraction from texts in news articles or microblogs. It is also interesting to discover emotions and their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Fanfan Wang , Zixiang Ding , Rui Xia , Zhaoyu Li , Jianfei Yu

This paper presents a web-based demonstration of Emotion Twenty Questions (EMO20Q), a dialog game whose purpose is to study how people describe emotions. EMO20Q can also be used to develop artificially intelligent dialog agents that can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Abe Kazemzadeh , Adedamola Sanusi , Huihui , Nie

Generating vivid and emotional 3D co-speech gestures is crucial for virtual avatar animation in human-machine interaction applications. While the existing methods enable generating the gestures to follow a single emotion label, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Xingqun Qi , Jiahao Pan , Peng Li , Ruibin Yuan , Xiaowei Chi , Mengfei Li , Wenhan Luo , Wei Xue , Shanghang Zhang , Qifeng Liu , Yike Guo

Emotional support is a core capability in human-AI interaction, with applications including psychological counseling, role play, and companionship. However, existing evaluations of large language models (LLMs) often rely on short, static…

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