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Large language models (LLMs) excel at general language tasks but often struggle with event-based questions-especially those requiring causal or temporal reasoning. We introduce TAG-EQA (Text-And-Graph for Event Question Answering), a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Maithili Kadam , Francis Ferraro

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

Perception and expression of emotion are key factors to the success of dialogue systems or conversational agents. However, this problem has not been studied in large-scale conversation generation so far. In this paper, we propose Emotional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-04 Hao Zhou , Minlie Huang , Tianyang Zhang , Xiaoyan Zhu , Bing Liu

Empathetic dialog generation aims at generating coherent responses following previous dialog turns and, more importantly, showing a sense of caring and a desire to help. Existing models either rely on pre-defined emotion labels to guide the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Yubo Xie , Pearl Pu

Many studies on dialog emotion analysis focus on utterance-level emotion only. These models hence are not optimized for dialog-level emotion detection, i.e. to predict the emotion category of a dialog as a whole. More importantly, these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Yequan Wang , Xuying Meng , Yiyi Liu , Aixin Sun , Yao Wang , Yinhe Zheng , Minlie Huang

Recognizing emotions in conversations is a challenging task due to the presence of contextual dependencies governed by self- and inter-personal influences. Recent approaches have focused on modeling these dependencies primarily via…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Devamanyu Hazarika , Soujanya Poria , Roger Zimmermann , Rada Mihalcea

Most existing works in visual question answering (VQA) are dedicated to improving the accuracy of predicted answers, while disregarding the explanations. We argue that the explanation for an answer is of the same or even more importance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Qing Li , Qingyi Tao , Shafiq Joty , Jianfei Cai , Jiebo Luo

We introduce EXIT, an extractive context compression framework that enhances both the effectiveness and efficiency of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) in question answering (QA). Current RAG systems often struggle when retrieval models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Taeho Hwang , Sukmin Cho , Soyeong Jeong , Hoyun Song , SeungYoon Han , Jong C. Park

Emotion Recognition in Conversations (ERC) facilitates a deeper understanding of the emotions conveyed by speakers in each utterance within a conversation. Recently, Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have demonstrated their strengths in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Cuong Tran Van , Thanh V. T. Tran , Van Nguyen , Truong Son Hy

Many tasks in natural language processing require the extraction of relationship information for a given condition, such as event argument extraction, relation extraction, and task-oriented semantic parsing. Recent works usually propose…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-29 I-Hung Hsu , Kuan-Hao Huang , Shuning Zhang , Wenxin Cheng , Premkumar Natarajan , Kai-Wei Chang , Nanyun Peng

In this technical report, we present our solution for the EgoPlan Challenge in ICML 2024. To address the real-world egocentric task planning problem, we introduce a novel planning framework which comprises three stages: long-term memory…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Letian Shi , Qi Lv , Xiang Deng , Liqiang Nie

Emotion-Cause analysis has attracted the attention of researchers in recent years. However, most existing datasets are limited in size and number of emotion categories. They often focus on extracting parts of the document that contain the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Mia Huong Nguyen , Yasith Samaradivakara , Prasanth Sasikumar , Chitralekha Gupta , Suranga Nanayakkara

Detecting fake news in large datasets is challenging due to its diversity and complexity, with traditional approaches often focusing on textual features while underutilizing semantic and emotional elements. Current methods also rely heavily…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Xiaoman Xu , Xiangrun Li , Taihang Wang , Ye Jiang

Explicitly modeling emotions in dialogue generation has important applications, such as building empathetic personal companions. In this study, we consider the task of expressing a specific emotion for dialogue generation. Previous…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Chengzhang Dong , Chenyang Huang , Osmar Zaïane , Lili Mou

Implicit event argument extraction (EAE) aims to identify arguments that could scatter over the document. Most previous work focuses on learning the direct relations between arguments and the given trigger, while the implicit relations with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Jiaju Lin , Qin Chen , Jie Zhou , Jian Jin , Liang He

Recently, knowledge-enhanced methods leveraging auxiliary knowledge graphs have emerged in relation extraction, surpassing traditional text-based approaches. However, to our best knowledge, there is currently no public dataset available…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Yucong Lin , Hongming Xiao , Jiani Liu , Zichao Lin , Keming Lu , Feifei Wang , Wei Wei

Each utterance in multi-turn empathetic dialogues has features such as emotion, keywords, and utterance-level meaning. Feature transitions between utterances occur naturally. However, existing approaches fail to perceive the transitions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Wongyu Kim , Youbin Ahn , Donghyun Kim , Kyong-Ho Lee

Capturing interactions among event arguments is an essential step towards robust event argument extraction (EAE). However, existing efforts in this direction suffer from two limitations: 1) The argument role type information of contextual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Xiangyu Xi , Wei Ye , Shikun Zhang , Quanxiu Wang , Huixing Jiang , Wei Wu

Emotional Video Captioning (EVC) is an emerging task, which aims to describe factual content with the intrinsic emotions expressed in videos. Existing works perceive global emotional cues and then combine with video content to generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Weidong Chen , Cheng Ye , Zhendong Mao , Peipei Song , Xinyan Liu , Lei Zhang , Xiaojun Chang , Yongdong Zhang

Empathetic speech dialogue requires not only understanding linguistic content but also perceiving rich paralinguistic information such as prosody, tone, and emotional intensity for affective understandings. Existing speech-to-speech large…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-26 Zhuoyue Gao , Xiaohui Wang , Xiaocui Yang , Wen Zhang , Daling Wang , Shi Feng , Yifei Zhang