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Speech Language Models (SLMs) have made significant progress in spoken language understanding. Yet it remains unclear whether they can fully perceive non lexical vocal cues alongside spoken words, and respond with empathy that aligns with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Li Zhou , Lutong Yu , You Lyu , Yihang Lin , Zefeng Zhao , Junyi Ao , Yuhao Zhang , Benyou Wang , Haizhou Li

Establishing standardized metrics for Social Robot Navigation (SRN) algorithms for assessing the quality and social compliance of robot behavior around humans is essential for SRN research. Currently, commonly used evaluation metrics lack…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Raphael Wenzel , Malte Probst

Establishing evaluation schemes for spoken dialogue systems is important, but it can also be challenging. While subjective evaluations are commonly used in user experiments, objective evaluations are necessary for research comparison and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Koji Inoue , Divesh Lala , Keiko Ochi , Tatsuya Kawahara , Gabriel Skantze

Speech is the most common way humans express their feelings, and sentiment analysis is the use of tools such as natural language processing and computational algorithms to identify the polarity of these feelings. Even though this field has…

Long-term memory is important for chatbots and dialogue systems (DS) to create consistent and human-like conversations, evidenced by numerous developed memory-augmented DS (MADS). To evaluate the effectiveness of such MADS, existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Junqing He , Liang Zhu , Rui Wang , Xi Wang , Reza Haffari , Jiaxing Zhang

The immense number of parameters and deep neural networks make large language models (LLMs) rival the complexity of human brains, which also makes them opaque ``black box'' systems that are challenging to evaluate and interpret. AI…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Yibai Li , Xiaolin Lin , Zhenghui Sha , Zhiye Jin , Xiaobing Li

Empathy is a cognitive and emotional reaction to an observed situation of others. Empathy has recently attracted interest because it has numerous applications in psychology and AI, but it is unclear how different forms of empathy (e.g.,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Damilola Omitaomu , Shabnam Tafreshi , Tingting Liu , Sven Buechel , Chris Callison-Burch , Johannes Eichstaedt , Lyle Ungar , João Sedoc

For machine agents to successfully interact with humans in real-world settings, they will need to develop an understanding of human mental life. Intuitive psychology, the ability to reason about hidden mental variables that drive observable…

Conversational AI chatbots are transforming industries by streamlining customer service, automating transactions, and enhancing user engagement. However, evaluating these systems remains a challenge, particularly in financial services,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Shailja Gupta , Rajesh Ranjan , Surya Narayan Singh

Advancements in dialogue systems powered by large language models (LLMs) have outpaced the development of reliable evaluation metrics, particularly for diverse and creative responses. We present a benchmark for evaluating the robustness of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Justin Vasselli , Adam Nohejl , Taro Watanabe

We present novel automatic metrics for machine translation evaluation that use discourse structure and convolution kernels to compare the discourse tree of an automatic translation with that of the human reference. We experiment with five…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Shafiq Joty , Francisco Guzman , Lluis Marquez , Preslav Nakov

Conversational AI systems are becoming famous in day to day lives. In this paper, we are trying to address the following key question: To identify whether design, as well as development efforts for search oriented conversational AI are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-09-15 Mahipal Jadeja , Neelanshi Varia

In this paper, we analyze the performance of an agent developed according to a well-accepted appraisal theory of human emotion with respect to how it modulates play in the context of a social dilemma. We ask if the agent will be capable of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Moojan Ghafurian , Neil Budnarain , Jesse Hoey

Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT have shown remarkable abilities in producing human-like text. However, it is unclear how accurately these models internalize concepts that shape human thought and behavior. Here, we developed a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Hiro Taiyo Hamada , Ippei Fujisawa , Genji Kawakita , Yuki Yamada

Human ratings are one of the most prevalent methods to evaluate the performance of natural language processing algorithms. Similarly, it is common to measure the quality of sentences generated by a natural language generation model using…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Jakob Nyberg , Ramesh Manuvinakurike , Maike Paetzel-Prüsmann

Conversational AI is increasingly deployed in emotionally charged and ethically sensitive interactions. Previous research has primarily concentrated on emotional benchmarks or static safety checks, overlooking how alignment unfolds in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Jiawen Deng , Wentao Zhang , Ziyun Jiao , Fuji Ren

Conversational tones -- the manners and attitudes in which speakers communicate -- are essential to effective communication. Amidst the increasing popularization of Large Language Models (LLMs) over recent years, it becomes necessary to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Dun-Ming Huang , Pol Van Rijn , Ilia Sucholutsky , Raja Marjieh , Nori Jacoby

Emotion dynamics is a framework for measuring how an individual's emotions change over time. It is a powerful tool for understanding how we behave and interact with the world. In this paper, we introduce a framework to track emotion…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Will E. Hipson , Saif M. Mohammad

As AI chatbots increasingly incorporate empathy, understanding user-centered perceptions of chatbot empathy and its impact on conversation quality remains essential yet under-explored. This study examines how chatbot identity and perceived…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Tingting Liu , Salvatore Giorgi , Ankit Aich , Allison Lahnala , Brenda Curtis , Lyle Ungar , João Sedoc

Despite the recent advances in open-domain dialogue systems, building a reliable evaluation metric is still a challenging problem. Recent studies proposed learnable metrics based on classification models trained to distinguish the correct…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-26 ChaeHun Park , Seungil Chad Lee , Daniel Rim , Jaegul Choo