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In this work, we tackle the challenge of embedding realistic human personality traits into LLMs. Previous approaches have primarily focused on prompt-based methods that describe the behavior associated with the desired personality traits,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Wenkai Li , Jiarui Liu , Andy Liu , Xuhui Zhou , Mona Diab , Maarten Sap

Text-based personality prediction by computational models is an emerging field with the potential to significantly improve on key weaknesses of survey-based personality assessment. We investigate 3848 profiles from Twitter with self-labeled…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Partha Kadambi

Emotion is intrinsic to humans and consequently emotion understanding is a key part of human-like artificial intelligence (AI). Emotion recognition in conversation (ERC) is becoming increasingly popular as a new research frontier in natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-09 Soujanya Poria , Navonil Majumder , Rada Mihalcea , Eduard Hovy

Current works in the generation of personalized dialogue primarily contribute to the agent presenting a consistent personality and driving a more informative response. However, we found that the generated responses from most previous models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Itsugun Cho , Dongyang Wang , Ryota Takahashi , Hiroaki Saito

Recent advances in text-to-image models have opened new frontiers in human-centric generation. However, these models cannot be directly employed to generate images with consistent newly coined identities. In this work, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Qinghe Wang , Baolu Li , Xiaomin Li , Bing Cao , Liqian Ma , Huchuan Lu , Xu Jia

Humans share a wide variety of images related to their personal experiences within conversations via instant messaging tools. However, existing works focus on (1) image-sharing behavior in singular sessions, leading to limited long-term…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Young-Jun Lee , Dokyong Lee , Junyoung Youn , Kyeongjin Oh , Byungsoo Ko , Jonghwan Hyeon , Ho-Jin Choi

Endowing dialogue systems with personas is essential to deliver more human-like conversations. However, this problem is still far from well explored due to the difficulties of both embodying personalities in natural languages and the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-13 Yinhe Zheng , Rongsheng Zhang , Xiaoxi Mao , Minlie Huang

Job interviews play a critical role in shaping one's career, yet practicing interview skills can be challenging, especially without access to human coaches or peers for feedback. Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) present…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Taufiq Daryanto , Xiaohan Ding , Lance T. Wilhelm , Sophia Stil , Kirk McInnis Knutsen , Eugenia H. Rho

Personality detection from text is commonly performed by analysing users' social media posts. However, existing methods heavily rely on large-scale annotated datasets, making it challenging to obtain high-quality personality labels.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Lingzhi Shen , Xiaohao Cai , Yunfei Long , Imran Razzak , Guanming Chen , Shoaib Jameel

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

The integration of conversational agents into our daily lives has become increasingly common, yet many of these agents cannot engage in deep interactions with humans. Despite this, there is a noticeable shortage of datasets that capture…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Mohammed Althubyani , Zhijin Meng , Shengyuan Xie , Cha Seung , Imran Razzak , Eduardo B. Sandoval , Baki Kocaballi , Francisco Cruz

Multi-agent systems (MAS) have recently emerged as promising socio-collaborative companions for emotional and cognitive support. However, these systems frequently suffer from persona collapse--where agents revert to generic, homogenized…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Yiyang Wang , Yiqiao Jin , Alex Cabral , Josiah Hester

As large language model (LLM)-enhanced chatbots become increasingly expressive and socially responsive, many users begin forming companionship-like bonds with them. This study investigates how using AI companions relates to psychological…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Yutong Zhang , Dora Zhao , Jeffrey T. Hancock , Robert Kraut , Diyi Yang

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

Personalizing dialogue agents is important for dialogue systems to generate more specific, consistent, and engaging responses. However, most current dialogue personalization approaches rely on explicit persona descriptions during inference,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Wangchunshu Zhou , Qifei Li , Chenle Li

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has demonstrated significant capabilities in various fields, and in areas such as human-computer interaction (HCI), embodied intelligence, and the design and animation of virtual digital humans, both…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Yingjie Zhou , Zicheng Zhang , Jiezhang Cao , Jun Jia , Yanwei Jiang , Farong Wen , Xiaohong Liu , Xiongkuo Min , Guangtao Zhai

Despite notable progress, speech emotion recognition (SER) remains challenging due to the intricate and ambiguous nature of speech emotion, particularly in wild world. While current studies primarily focus on recognition and generalization…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Yu Pan , Yuguang Yang , Yuheng Huang , Jixun Yao , Jingjing Yin , Yanni Hu , Heng Lu , Lei Ma , Jianjun Zhao

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…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-04 Yayue Deng , Guoqiang Hu , Haiyang Sun , Xiangyu Zhang , Haoyang Zhang , Fei Tian , Xuerui Yang , Gang Yu , Eng Siong Chng

The integration of dialogue agents into the sales domain requires a deep understanding of how these systems interact with users possessing diverse personas. This study explores the influence of user personas, defined using the Myers-Briggs…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Sijia Cheng , Wen-Yu Chang , Yun-Nung Chen

Testing conversational AI systems at scale across diverse domains necessitates realistic and diverse user interactions capturing a wide array of behavioral patterns. We present a novel multi-agent framework for realistic, explainable human…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Hareeshwar Karthikeyan