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Emotion recognition has the potential to play a pivotal role in enhancing human-computer interaction by enabling systems to accurately interpret and respond to human affect. Yet, capturing emotions in face-to-face contexts remains…

In this work, we propose a method for neural dialogue response generation that allows not only generating semantically reasonable responses according to the dialogue history, but also explicitly controlling the sentiment of the response via…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Xiang Kong , Bohan Li , Graham Neubig , Eduard Hovy , Yiming Yang

Emotion Recognition in Conversations (ERC) has been gaining increasing importance as conversational agents become more and more common. Recognizing emotions is key for effective communication, being a crucial component in the development of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Patrícia Pereira , Helena Moniz , Isabel Dias , Joao Paulo Carvalho

The consistency of a response to a given post at semantic-level and emotional-level is essential for a dialogue system to deliver human-like interactions. However, this challenge is not well addressed in the literature, since most of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-12 Wei Wei , Jiayi Liu , Xianling Mao , Guibin Guo , Feida Zhu , Pan Zhou , Yuchong Hu , Shanshan Feng

With the rapid development of artificial intelligence, conversational bots have became prevalent in mainstream E-commerce platforms, which can provide convenient customer service timely. To satisfy the user, the conversational bots need to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Zhenyu Zhang , Tao Guo , Meng Chen

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

In recent years, the generation of conversation content based on deep neural networks has attracted many researchers. However, traditional neural language models tend to generate general replies, lacking logical and emotional factors. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-18 Jia Li , Xiao Sun , Xing Wei , Changliang Li , Jianhua Tao

Understanding and predicting the emotional trajectory in multi-party multi-turn conversations is of great significance. Such information can be used, for example, to generate empathetic response in human-machine interaction or to inform…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Enas Altarawneh , Ameeta Agrawal , Michael Jenkin , Manos Papagelis

Emotion recognition in conversation (ERC) aims to analyze the speaker's state and identify their emotion in the conversation. Recent works in ERC focus on context modeling but ignore the representation of contextual emotional tendency. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Zaijing Li , Fengxiao Tang , Ming Zhao , Yusen Zhu

Visual emotion expression plays an important role in audiovisual speech communication. In this work, we propose a novel approach to rendering visual emotion expression in speech-driven talking face generation. Specifically, we design an…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-23 Sefik Emre Eskimez , You Zhang , Zhiyao Duan

Multi-modal emotion recognition has garnered increasing attention as it plays a significant role in human-computer interaction (HCI) in recent years. Since different discrete emotions may exist at the same time, compared with single-class…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Chuhang Zheng , Chunwei Tian , Jie Wen , Daoqiang Zhang , Qi Zhu

We introduce the concept of "empathic grounding" in conversational agents as an extension of Clark's conceptualization of grounding in conversation in which the grounding criterion includes listener empathy for the speaker's affective…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Mehdi Arjmand , Farnaz Nouraei , Ian Steenstra , Timothy Bickmore

Recent approaches to empathetic response generation try to incorporate commonsense knowledge or reasoning about the causes of emotions to better understand the user's experiences and feelings. However, these approaches mainly focus on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Yahui Fu , Koji Inoue , Chenhui Chu , Tatsuya Kawahara

In the literature, existing human-centric emotional motion generation methods primarily focus on boosting performance within a single scale-fixed dataset, largely neglecting the flexible and scale-increasing motion scenarios (e.g., sports,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Jiawen Wang , Jingjing Wang Tianyang Chen , Min Zhang , Guodong Zhou

Generating emotional language is a key step towards building empathetic natural language processing agents. However, a major challenge for this line of research is the lack of large-scale labeled training data, and previous studies are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Xianda Zhou , William Yang Wang

Emotion-controllable response generation is an attractive and valuable task that aims to make open-domain conversations more empathetic and engaging. Existing methods mainly enhance the emotion expression by adding regularization terms to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Lei Shen , Yang Feng

Emotion Recognition in Conversations (ERC) has considerable prospects for developing empathetic machines. For multimodal ERC, it is vital to understand context and fuse modality information in conversations. Recent graph-based fusion…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Dou Hu , Xiaolong Hou , Lingwei Wei , Lianxin Jiang , Yang Mo

Empathetic dialogue requires not only recognizing a user's emotional state but also making strategy-aware, context-sensitive decisions throughout response generation. However, the lack of a comprehensive empathy strategy framework, explicit…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Hongru Ji , Yuyin Fan , Meng Zhao , Xianghua Li , Lianwei Wu , Chao Gao

Sarcasm Explanation in Dialogue (SED) is a new yet challenging task, which aims to generate a natural language explanation for the given sarcastic dialogue that involves multiple modalities (\ie utterance, video, and audio). Although…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Kun Ouyang , Liqiang Jing , Xuemeng Song , Meng Liu , Yupeng Hu , Liqiang Nie

This paper investigates the empathetic responding capabilities of ChatGPT, particularly its latest iteration, GPT-4, in comparison to human-generated responses to a wide range of emotional scenarios, both positive and negative. We employ a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Anuradha Welivita , Pearl Pu