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Emotional Support Conversation (ESC) is a task aimed at alleviating individuals' emotional distress through daily conversation. Given its inherent complexity and non-intuitive nature, ESConv dataset incorporates support strategies to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Dongjin Kang , Sunghwan Kim , Taeyoon Kwon , Seungjun Moon , Hyunsouk Cho , Youngjae Yu , Dongha Lee , Jinyoung Yeo

The growing emotional stress in modern society has increased the demand for Emotional Support Conversations (ESC). While Large Language Models (LLMs) show promise for ESC, they face two key challenges: (1) low strategy selection accuracy,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Weixiang Zhao , Xingyu Sui , Xinyang Han , Yang Deng , Yulin Hu , Jiahe Guo , Libo Qin , Qianyun Du , Shijin Wang , Yanyan Zhao , Bing Qin , Ting Liu

Emotional support conversation (ESC) aims to alleviate the emotional distress of individuals through effective conversations. Although large language models (LLMs) have obtained remarkable progress on ESC, most of these studies might not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Xiaoyu Wang , Yue Zhao , Qingqing Gu , Zhonglin Jiang , Xiaokai Chen , Yong Chen , Luo Ji

Emotional Support Conversations (ESC) are crucial for providing empathy, validation, and actionable guidance to individuals in distress. However, existing definitions of the ESC task oversimplify the structure of supportive responses,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Xin Bai , Guanyi Chen , Tingting He , Chenlian Zhou , Yu Liu

Emotional Support Conversation (ESC) systems aim to alleviate users' emotional difficulties and provide long-term, systematic support for emotional well-being. However, most large language model (LLM)-based ESC systems rely on predefined…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Ting Yang , Li Chen , Huimin Wang

Emotional support conversation (ESC) aims to provide emotional support (ES) to improve one's mental state. Existing works stay at fitting grounded responses and responding strategies (e.g., question), which ignore the effect on ES and lack…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Jinfeng Zhou , Zhuang Chen , Bo Wang , Minlie Huang

Designing emotionally intelligent conversational systems to provide comfort and advice to people experiencing distress is a compelling area of research. Recently, with advancements in large language models (LLMs), end-to-end dialogue agents…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Chenwei Wan , Matthieu Labeau , Chloé Clavel

Emotional Support Conversation (ESC) aims to provide empathetic and effective emotional assistance through dialogue, addressing the growing demand for mental health support. This paper presents our solution for the NLPCC 2025 Task 8 ESC…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Shiquan Wang , Ruiyu Fang , Zhongjiang He , Shuangyong Song , Yongxiang Li

Recent advances in Emotional Support Conversation (ESC) have improved emotional support generation by fine-tuning Large Language Models (LLMs) via Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT). However, common psychological errors still persist. While…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Chao Zhang , Xin Shi , Xueqiao Zhang , Yifan Zhu , Yi Yang , Yawei Luo

Emotional Support Conversation (ESC) is a typical dialogue that can effectively assist the user in mitigating emotional pressures. However, owing to the inherent subjectivity involved in analyzing emotions, current non-artificial…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Huaiwen Zhang , Yu Chen , Ming Wang , Shi Feng

Emotional Support Conversation (ESC) plays a critical role in mental health assistance by providing accessible psychological support in real-world applications. Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown strong empathetic abilities in ESC…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Lin Zhong , Renjin Zhu , Shujuan Ma , Jinhao Cui , Lingzhi Wang , Hao Chen , Qing Liao

Emotional Support Conversation (ESC) aims to assist individuals experiencing distress by generating empathetic and supportive dialogue. While prior work typically assumes that each supporter turn corresponds to a single strategy, real-world…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Jie Zhu , Huaixia Dou , Junhui Li , Lifan Guo , Feng Chen , Jinsong Su , Chi Zhang , Fang Kong

Emotional support conversation (ESC) aims to alleviate the emotional distress of individuals through effective conversations. Although large language models (LLMs) have obtained remarkable progress on ESC, most of these studies might not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Yue Zhao , Qingqing Gu , Xiaoyu Wang , Teng Chen , Zhonglin Jiang , Yong Chen , Luo Ji

Emotion Support Conversation (ESC) is a crucial application, which aims to reduce human stress, offer emotional guidance, and ultimately enhance human mental and physical well-being. With the advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs),…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Haiquan Zhao , Lingyu Li , Shisong Chen , Shuqi Kong , Jiaan Wang , Kexin Huang , Tianle Gu , Yixu Wang , Wang Jian , Dandan Liang , Zhixu Li , Yan Teng , Yanghua Xiao , Yingchun Wang

Providing Emotional Support (ES) to soothe people in emotional distress is an essential capability in social interactions. Most existing researches on building ES conversation systems only considered single-turn interactions with users,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Yi Cheng , Wenge Liu , Wenjie Li , Jiashuo Wang , Ruihui Zhao , Bang Liu , Xiaodan Liang , Yefeng Zheng

Emotional Support Conversation aims at reducing the seeker's emotional distress through supportive response. Existing approaches have two limitations: (1) They ignore the emotion causes of the distress, which is important for fine-grained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Wei Chen , Hengxu Lin , Qun Zhang , Xiaojin Zhang , Xiang Bai , Xuanjing Huang , Zhongyu Wei

Large language models (LLMs) have been widely applied to emotional support conversation (ESC). However, complex multi-turn support remains challenging.This is because existing alignment schemes rely on sparse outcome-level signals, thus…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Chenghui Zou , Ning Wang , Tiesunlong Shen , Luwei Xiao , Chuan Ma , Xiangpeng Li , Rui Mao , Erik Cambria

Effective emotional support hinges on understanding users' emotions and needs to provide meaningful comfort during multi-turn interactions. Large Language Models (LLMs) show great potential for expressing empathy; however, they often…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Jing Ye , Lu Xiang , Yaping Zhang , Chengqing Zong

Iterative preference optimization has recently become one of the de-facto training paradigms for large language models (LLMs), but the performance is still underwhelming due to too much noisy preference data yielded in the loop. To combat…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Jianing Wang , Yang Zhou , Xiaocheng Zhang , Mengjiao Bao , Peng Yan

Empathetic response generation is a desirable aspect of conversational agents, crucial for facilitating engaging and emotionally intelligent multi-turn conversations between humans and machines. Leveraging large language models for this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Ondrej Sotolar , Vojtech Formanek , Alok Debnath , Allison Lahnala , Charles Welch , Lucie FLek
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