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Supportive conversation depends on skills that go beyond language fluency, including reading emotions, adjusting tone, and navigating moments of resistance, frustration, or distress. Despite rapid progress in language models, we still lack…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Laya Iyer , Kriti Aggarwal , Sanmi Koyejo , Gail Heyman , Desmond C. Ong , Subhabrata Mukherjee

Multimodal empathetic response generation (MERG) aims to generate emotionally engaging and empathetic responses based on users' multimodal contexts. Existing approaches usually rely on an implicit one-pass generation paradigm from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Liping Wang , Cheng Ye , Weidong Chen , Peipei Song , Bo Hu , Zhendong Mao

While increasing research focuses on the emotional well-being of agile team members, a significant gap remains in emotion monitoring studies for Scrum Masters and meeting organizers, whose impact on team dynamics is crucial. This paper…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Jingni Huang , Peter Bloodsworth

The transition to 6G calls for tightly integrated sensing and communication to support mission-critical services such as autonomous driving, embodied AI, and high-precision telemedicine. However, most existing ISAC designs rely on a single…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Yubo Peng , Luping Xiang , Kun Yang , Feibo Jiang , Kezhi Wang , Christos Masouros

Mental health disorders are rising worldwide. However, the availability of trained clinicians has not scaled proportionally, leaving many people without adequate or timely support. To bridge this gap, recent studies have shown the promise…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Aishik Mandal , Prottay Kumar Adhikary , Hiba Arnaout , Iryna Gurevych , Tanmoy Chakraborty

Integrating physiological signals such as electroencephalogram (EEG), with other data such as interview audio, may offer valuable multimodal insights into psychological states or neurological disorders. Recent advancements with Large…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Yongquan Hu , Shuning Zhang , Ting Dang , Hong Jia , Flora D. Salim , Wen Hu , Aaron J. Quigley

AI based mental health diagnosis is often judged by benchmark accuracy, yet in practice its value depends on how psychologists respond whether they accept, adjust, or reject AI suggestions. Mental health makes this especially challenging:…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Filippo Cenacchi , Longbing Cao , Deborah Richards

With the advancement of large language models, many dialogue systems are now capable of providing reasonable and informative responses to patients' medical conditions. However, when patients consult their doctor, they may experience…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Shang-Chi Tsai , Yun-Nung Chen

In this paper, we introduce a new problem, Online-MMSI, where the model must perform multimodal social interaction understanding (MMSI) using only historical information. Given a recorded video and a multi-party dialogue, the AI assistant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Xinpeng Li , Shijian Deng , Bolin Lai , Weiguo Pian , James M. Rehg , Yapeng Tian

Emotional Text-to-Speech (E-TTS) synthesis has garnered significant attention in recent years due to its potential to revolutionize human-computer interaction. However, current E-TTS approaches often struggle to capture the intricacies of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Zhi-Qi Cheng , Xiang Li , Jun-Yan He , Junyao Chen , Xiaomao Fan , Xiaojiang Peng , Alexander G. Hauptmann

Automatic emotion recognition is an active research topic with wide range of applications. Due to the high manual annotation cost and inevitable label ambiguity, the development of emotion recognition dataset is limited in both scale and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-08 Jingjun Liang , Ruichen Li , Qin Jin

Collaborative perception, an emerging paradigm in autonomous driving, has been introduced to mitigate the limitations of single-vehicle systems, such as limited sensor range and occlusion. To improve the robustness of inter-vehicle data…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-26 Mingyi Lu , Guowei Liu , Le Liang , Chongtao Guo , Hao Ye , Shi Jin

Previous multilingual text-to-speech (TTS) approaches have considered leveraging monolingual speaker data to enable cross-lingual speech synthesis. However, such data-efficient approaches have ignored synthesizing emotional aspects of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-01 Xinfa Zhu , Yi Lei , Tao Li , Yongmao Zhang , Hongbin Zhou , Heng Lu , Lei Xie

Word embeddings such as ELMo have recently been shown to model word semantics with greater efficacy through contextualized learning on large-scale language corpora, resulting in significant improvement in state of the art across many…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-11 Shao-Yen Tseng , Panayiotis Georgiou , Shrikanth Narayanan

Empathetic and coherent responses are critical in auto-mated chatbot-facilitated psychotherapy. This study addresses the challenge of enhancing the emotional and contextual understanding of large language models (LLMs) in psychiatric…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Abdur Rasool , Muhammad Irfan Shahzad , Hafsa Aslam , Vincent Chan , Muhammad Ali Arshad

The deployment of large language models (LLMs) in mental health and other sensitive domains raises urgent questions about ethical reasoning, fairness, and responsible alignment. Yet, existing benchmarks for moral and clinical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Sai Kartheek Reddy Kasu

Multimodal emotion recognition in conversation (MERC) has garnered substantial research attention recently. Existing MERC methods face several challenges: (1) they fail to fully harness direct inter-modal cues, possibly leading to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Jiang Li , Xiaoping Wang , Zhigang Zeng

Automatic emotion recognition is one of the central concerns of the Human-Computer Interaction field as it can bridge the gap between humans and machines. Current works train deep learning models on low-level data representations to solve…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-22 Mariana Rodrigues Makiuchi , Kuniaki Uto , Koichi Shinoda

Multimodal Dialogue Summarization (MDS) is a critical task with wide-ranging applications. To support the development of effective MDS models, robust automatic evaluation methods are essential for reducing both cost and human effort.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Yinhong Liu , Jianfeng He , Hang Su , Ruixue Lian , Yi Nian , Jake Vincent , Srikanth Vishnubhotla , Robinson Piramuthu , Saab Mansour

Efficiently capturing consistent and complementary semantic features in a multimodal conversation context is crucial for Multimodal Emotion Recognition in Conversation (MERC). Existing methods mainly use graph structures to model dialogue…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Tao Meng , Fuchen Zhang , Yuntao Shou , Wei Ai , Nan Yin , Keqin Li