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Speech emotion recognition (SER) classifies human emotions in speech with a computer model. Recently, performance in SER has steadily increased as deep learning techniques have adapted. However, unlike many domains that use speech data,…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Byunggun Kim , Younghun Kwon

Modeling empathy is a complex endeavor that is rooted in interpersonal and experiential dimensions of human interaction, and remains an open problem within AI. Existing empathy datasets fall short in capturing the richness of empathy…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Jocelyn Shen , Yubin Kim , Mohit Hulse , Wazeer Zulfikar , Sharifa Alghowinem , Cynthia Breazeal , Hae Won Park

Based on the WASSA 2022 Shared Task on Empathy Detection and Emotion Classification, we predict the level of empathic concern and personal distress displayed in essays. For the first stage of this project we implemented a Feed-Forward…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Manisha Singh , Divy Sharma , Alonso Ma , Nora Goldfine

Empathetic dialogue is a human-like behavior that requires the perception of both affective factors (e.g., emotion status) and cognitive factors (e.g., cause of the emotion). Besides concerning emotion status in early work, the latest…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Yushan Qian , Bo Wang , Ting-En Lin , Yinhe Zheng , Ying Zhu , Dongming Zhao , Yuexian Hou , Yuchuan Wu , Yongbin Li

Critical to successful human interaction is a capacity for empathy - the ability to understand and share the thoughts and feelings of another. As Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems are increasingly required to interact with humans in a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Maayan Shvo , Sheila A. McIlraith

This work investigates whether synthetic emotional chain-of-thought data can improve the emotional reasoning abilities of smaller open large language models (LLMs). We design a multi-agent generation pipeline that produces therapy-style…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Arjhun Sreedar , Rohan Pillay , Laukik Patade

We propose a novel large-scale emotional dialogue dataset, consisting of 1M dialogues retrieved from the OpenSubtitles corpus and annotated with 32 emotions and 9 empathetic response intents using a BERT-based fine-grained dialogue emotion…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Anuradha Welivita , Yubo Xie , Pearl Pu

Emotion and intent recognition from speech is essential and has been widely investigated in human-computer interaction. The rapid development of social media platforms, chatbots, and other technologies has led to a large volume of speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Zhao Ren , Rathi Adarshi Rammohan , Kevin Scheck , Sheng Li , Tanja Schultz

Accurate and rapid situation analysis during humanitarian crises is critical to delivering humanitarian aid efficiently and is fundamental to humanitarian imperatives and the Leave No One Behind (LNOB) principle. This data analysis can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Nicolò Tamagnone , Selim Fekih , Ximena Contla , Nayid Orozco , Navid Rekabsaz

Emotion detection from the text is an important and challenging problem in text analytics. The opinion-mining experts are focusing on the development of emotion detection applications as they have received considerable attention of online…

We investigate the effect and usefulness of spontaneity (i.e. whether a given speech is spontaneous or not) in speech in the context of emotion recognition. We hypothesize that emotional content in speech is interrelated with its…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-06-15 Karttikeya Mangalam , Tanaya Guha

As a critical step to achieve human-like chatbots, empathetic response generation has attained increasing interests. Previous attempts are incomplete and not sufficient enough to elicit empathy because they only focus on the initial aspect…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Weixiang Zhao , Yanyan Zhao , Xin Lu , Bing Qin

Large language models (LLMs) produce responses rated as highly empathic in single-turn settings (Ayers et al., 2023; Lee et al., 2024), yet they are also known to be formulaic generators that reuse the same lexical patterns, syntactic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Hongli Zhan , Emma S. Gueorguieva , Javier Hernandez , Jina Suh , Desmond C. Ong , Junyi Jessy Li

Processing human affective behavior is important for developing intelligent agents that interact with humans in complex interaction scenarios. A large number of current approaches that address this problem focus on classifying emotion…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-09-02 Pablo Barros , Nikhil Churamani , Angelica Lim , Stefan Wermter

Prior efforts to create an autonomous computer system capable of predicting what a human being is thinking or feeling from facial expression data have been largely based on outdated, inaccurate models of how emotions work that rely on many…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-08-06 Trevor Buteau , Damian Lyons

Human preference data is essential for aligning large language models (LLMs) with human values, but collecting such data is often costly and inefficient-motivating the need for efficient data selection methods that reduce annotation costs…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Seohyeong Lee , Eunwon Kim , Hwaran Lee , Buru Chang

Emotion recognition is a critical task in human-computer interaction, enabling more intuitive and responsive systems. This study presents a multimodal emotion recognition system that combines low-level information from audio and text,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-23 Shamin Bin Habib Avro , Taieba Taher , Nursadul Mamun

Recent developments in generative AI have shone a spotlight on high-performance synthetic text generation technologies. The now wide availability and ease of use of such models highlights the urgent need to provide equally powerful…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Alan Cowap , Yvette Graham , Jennifer Foster

Emotion Recognition in Conversation (ERC) has become a fundamental capability for large language models (LLMs) in human-centric interaction. Beyond accurate recognition, coherent emotional expression is also crucial, yet both are limited by…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Shaowei Zhang , Faqiang Qian , Yan Chen , Ziliang Wang , Kang An , Yong Dai , Mengya Gao , Yichao Wu

When selecting data for training large-scale models, standard practice is to filter for examples that match human notions of data quality. Such filtering yields qualitatively clean datapoints that intuitively should improve model behavior.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Logan Engstrom , Axel Feldmann , Aleksander Madry