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Empathy is a vital factor that contributes to mutual understanding, and joint problem-solving. In recent years, a growing number of studies have recognized the benefits of empathy and started to incorporate empathy in conversational…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Aravind Sesagiri Raamkumar , Yinping Yang

Modern social platforms are characterized by the presence of rich user-behavior data associated with the publication, sharing and consumption of textual content. Users interact with content and with each other in a complex and dynamic…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-02-08 Adit Krishnan , Ashish Sharma , Hari Sundaram

Proactive dialogue system is able to lead the conversation to a goal topic and has advantaged potential in bargain, persuasion and negotiation. Current corpus-based learning manner limits its practical application in real-world scenarios.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-18 Wenqiang Lei , Yao Zhang , Feifan Song , Hongru Liang , Jiaxin Mao , Jiancheng Lv , Zhenglu Yang , Tat-Seng Chua

Worldwide, a large number of people interact with each other by means of online chatting. There has been a significant rise in the number of platforms, both social and professional, such as WhatsApp, Facebook,and Twitter, which allow people…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2017-12-29 Shubhankar Gupta , Nitin

In Twitter, there is a rising trend in abusive behavior which often leads to incivility. This trend is affecting users mentally and as a result they tend to leave Twitter and other such social networking sites thus depleting the active user…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Suman Kalyan Maity , Aishik Chakraborty , Pawan Goyal , Animesh Mukherjee

Generative AI chatbots have proven surprisingly effective at persuading people to change their beliefs and attitudes in lab settings. However, the practical implications of these findings are not yet clear. In this work, we explore the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Jeremy Foote , Deepak Kumar , Bedadyuti Jha , Ryan Funkhouser , Loizos Bitsikokos , Hitesh Goel , Hsuen-Chi Chiu

Collaborative human-AI annotation is a promising approach for various tasks with large-scale and complex data. Tools and methods to support effective human-AI collaboration for data annotation are an important direction for research. In…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Jinkyung Katie Park , Rahul Dev Ellezhuthil , Pamela Wisniewski , Vivek Singh

Customer service chatbots are increasingly expected to serve not merely as reactive support tools for users, but as strategic interfaces for harvesting high-value information and business intelligence. In response, we make three main…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Chen Huang , Zitan Jiang , Changyi Zou , Wenqiang Lei , See-Kiong Ng

In recent years, online communities have formed around suicide and self-harm prevention. While these communities offer support in moment of crisis, they can also normalize harmful behavior, discourage professional treatment, and instigate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-20 Luca Soldaini , Timothy Walsh , Arman Cohan , Julien Han , Nazli Goharian

Mental health forums are online communities where people express their issues and seek help from moderators and other users. In such forums, there are often posts with severe content indicating that the user is in acute distress and there…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-02-23 Arman Cohan , Sydney Young , Andrew Yates , Nazli Goharian

The concept of a Human-AI team has gained increasing attention in recent years. For effective collaboration between humans and AI teammates, proactivity is crucial for close coordination and effective communication. However, the design of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Matthias Kraus , Ron Riekenbrauck , Wolfgang Minker

The next step for intelligent dialog agents is to escape their role as silent bystanders and become proactive. Well-defined proactive behavior may improve human-machine cooperation, as the agent takes a more active role during interaction…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-23 Matthias Kraus , Nicolas Wagner , Ron Riekenbrauck , Wolfgang Minker

One of the long-standing aspirations in conversational AI is to allow them to autonomously take initiatives in conversations, i.e., being proactive. This is especially challenging for multi-party conversations. Prior NLP research focused…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Xingyu Bruce Liu , Shitao Fang , Weiyan Shi , Chien-Sheng Wu , Takeo Igarashi , Xiang Anthony Chen

Accurately estimating how users respond to moderation interventions is paramount for developing effective and user-centred moderation strategies. However, this requires a clear understanding of which user characteristics are associated with…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Benedetta Tessa , Alejandro Moreo , Stefano Cresci , Tiziano Fagni , Fabrizio Sebastiani

Growing amount of comments make online discussions difficult to moderate by human moderators only. Antisocial behavior is a common occurrence that often discourages other users from participating in discussion. We propose a neural network…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-20 Andrej Švec , Matúš Pikuliak , Marián Šimko , Mária Bieliková

A target-guided proactive dialogue system aims to steer conversations proactively toward pre-defined targets, such as designated keywords or specific topics. During guided conversations, dynamically modeling conversational scenarios and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Maodong Li , Yancui Li , Fang Kong

The pervasiveness of online toxicity, including hate speech and trolling, disrupts digital interactions and online well-being. Previous research has mainly focused on post-hoc moderation, overlooking the real-time emotional dynamics of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Akriti Verma , Shama Islam , Valeh Moghaddam , Adnan Anwar

In recent years, online social networks have allowed worldwide users to meet and discuss. As guarantors of these communities, the administrators of these platforms must prevent users from adopting inappropriate behaviors. This verification…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-06-17 Noé Cecillon , Vincent Labatut , Richard Dufour , Georges Linarès

Toxic interactions in Open Source Software (OSS) communities reduce contributor engagement and threaten project sustainability. Preventing such toxicity before it emerges requires a clear understanding of how harmful conversations unfold.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Mia Mohammad Imran , Robert Zita , Rahat Rizvi Rahman , Preetha Chatterjee , Kostadin Damevski

Online discussions are often characterized by strong behavioral asymmetries: a relatively small fraction of users actively produces content, while the majority primarily consumes and redistributes it. Here we propose a community-detection…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Stefano Guarino , Ayoub Mounim , Guido Caldarelli , Fabio Saracco