In this work we explore a deep learning-based dialogue system that generates sarcastic and
humorous responses from a conversation design perspective. We trained a seq2seq model …

Understanding the reason for emotional support response is crucial for establishing
connections between users and emotional support dialogue systems. Previous works mostly …

There has been a growing interest in empathetic dialogue systems (EDS) that demonstrate
emotional and social intelligence within the natural language processing (NLP) community …

Empathy is a cognitive and emotional reaction to an observed situation of others. Empathy
has recently attracted interest because it has numerous applications in psychology and AI …

Autistic individuals often draw on insights from their supportive networks to develop self-help
life strategies ranging from everyday chores to social activities. However, human resources …

Building natural and conversational virtual humans is a task of formidable complexity. We
believe that, especially when building agents that affectively interact with biological humans …

The increasing volume of commercially available conversational agents (CAs) on the market
has resulted in users being burdened with learning and adopting multiple agents to …

Emotion plays an important role in human beings' daily lives. Understanding emotions and
recognizing how to react to others' feelings are fundamental to engaging in successful social …

Emotional well-being significantly influences mental health and overall quality of life. As
therapy chatbots become increasingly prevalent, their ability to comprehend and respond …

Healthcare systems across the world are transitioning into patient-centered healthcare
models to ensure improved health outcomes, increased operational efficiencies and …