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Empathy involves understanding other people's situation, perspective, and feelings. In clinical interactions, it helps clinicians establish rapport with a patient and support patient-centered care and decision making. Understanding…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-03 Zhuohao Chen , James Gibson , Ming-Chang Chiu , Qiaohong Hu , Tara K Knight , Daniella Meeker , James A Tulsky , Kathryn I Pollak , Shrikanth Narayanan

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated surprising performance on many tasks, including writing supportive messages that display empathy. Here, we had these models generate empathic messages in response to posts describing common…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Yoon Kyung Lee , Jina Suh , Hongli Zhan , Junyi Jessy Li , Desmond C. Ong

Ethical frameworks for the use of natural language processing (NLP) are urgently needed to shape how large language models (LLMs) and similar tools are used for healthcare applications. Healthcare faces existing challenges including the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Maria Antoniak , Aakanksha Naik , Carla S. Alvarado , Lucy Lu Wang , Irene Y. Chen

This paper introduces EmplifAI, a Japanese empathetic dialogue dataset designed to support patients coping with chronic medical conditions. They often experience a wide range of positive and negative emotions (e.g., hope and despair) that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Wan Jou She , Lis Kanashiro Pereira , Fei Cheng , Sakiko Yahata , Panote Siriaraya , Eiji Aramaki

The severe shortage of medical doctors limits access to timely and reliable healthcare, leaving millions underserved. Large language models (LLMs) offer a potential solution but struggle in real-world clinical interactions. Many LLMs are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Jiayuan Zhu , Jiazhen Pan , Yuyuan Liu , Fenglin Liu , Junde Wu

Modern affective computing systems rely heavily on datasets with human-annotated emotion labels, for training and evaluation. However, human annotations are expensive to obtain, sensitive to study design, and difficult to quality control,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Minxue Niu , Yara El-Tawil , Amrit Romana , Emily Mower Provost

In organizational and commercial settings, people often have clear roles and workflows against which functional and non-functional requirements can be extracted. However, in more social settings, such as platforms for enhancing social…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-11-02 Mohammadhossein Sherkat , Antonette Mendoza , Tim Miller , Rachel Burrows

Artificial agents capable of understanding and aligning with others' intentions are essential for safe and socially robust artificial intelligence. We introduce a computational framework for empathy in active inference agents, grounded in…

We present Empathic Prompting, a novel framework for multimodal human-AI interaction that enriches Large Language Model (LLM) conversations with implicit non-verbal context. The system integrates a commercial facial expression recognition…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Lorenzo Stacchio , Andrea Ubaldi , Alessandro Galdelli , Maurizio Mauri , Emanuele Frontoni , Andrea Gaggioli

Previous research has shown that humans are more receptive towards language models that that exhibit empathetic behavior. While empathy is essential for developing helpful dialogue agents, very few large corpora containing empathetic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Run Chen , Jun Shin , Julia Hirschberg

While the automatic evaluation of omni-modal large models (OLMs) is essential, assessing empathy remains a significant challenge due to its inherent affectivity. To investigate this challenge, we introduce AEQ-Bench (Audio Empathy Quotient…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Xuan Luo , Lewei Yao , Libo Zhao , Lanqing Hong , Kai Chen , Dehua Tao , Daxin Tan , Ruifeng Xu , Jing Li

Sentiment analysis and emotion detection are important research topics in natural language processing (NLP) and benefit many downstream tasks. With the widespread application of LLMs, researchers have started exploring the application of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Zhiwei Liu , Kailai Yang , Tianlin Zhang , Qianqian Xie , Sophia Ananiadou

Empathy is critical to successful mental health support. Empathy measurement has predominantly occurred in synchronous, face-to-face settings, and may not translate to asynchronous, text-based contexts. Because millions of people use…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Ashish Sharma , Adam S. Miner , David C. Atkins , Tim Althoff

Empathetic conversation is a crucial characteristic in daily conversations between individuals. Nowadays, Large Language models (LLMs) have shown outstanding performance in generating empathetic responses. Knowledge bases like COMET can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Huiying Cao , Yiqun Zhang , Shi Feng , Xiaocui Yang , Daling Wang , Yifei Zhang

This paper explores enhancing empathy in Large Language Models (LLMs) by integrating them with physiological data. We propose a physiological computing approach that includes developing deep learning models that use physiological data for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-25 Poorvesh Dongre , Majid Behravan , Kunal Gupta , Mark Billinghurst , Denis Gračanin

Empathetic dialogue is an indispensable part of building harmonious social relationships and contributes to the development of a helpful AI. Previous approaches are mainly based on fine small-scale language models. With the advent of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Yushan Qian , Wei-Nan Zhang , Ting Liu

Large language models (LLMs) are already being piloted for clinical use in hospital systems like NYU Langone, Dana-Farber and the NHS. A proposed deployment use case is psychotherapy, where a LLM-powered chatbot can treat a patient…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Saadia Gabriel , Isha Puri , Xuhai Xu , Matteo Malgaroli , Marzyeh Ghassemi

Conceptual operationalizations of empathy in NLP are varied, with some having specific behaviors and properties, while others are more abstract. How these variations relate to one another and capture properties of empathy observable in text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Allison Lahnala , Charles Welch , David Jurgens , Lucie Flek

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly applied in biomedical domains, yet their reliability in drug-safety prediction remains underexplored. In this work, we investigate whether LLMs incorporate socio-demographic information into…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Siying Liu , Shisheng Zhang , Indu Bala

We review the state of research on empathy in natural language processing and identify the following issues: (1) empathy definitions are absent or abstract, which (2) leads to low construct validity and reproducibility. Moreover, (3)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Allison Lahnala , Charles Welch , David Jurgens , Lucie Flek