Constructing emotion consensus and utilizing unpaired data for empathetic dialogue generation

L Shen, J Zhang, J Ou, X Zhao, J Zhou - arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.07779, 2021 - arxiv.org
Researches on dialogue empathy aim to endow an agent with the capacity of accurate
understanding and proper responding for emotions. Existing models for empathetic dialogue …

Moel: Mixture of empathetic listeners

Z Lin, A Madotto, J Shin, P Xu, P Fung - arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.07687, 2019 - arxiv.org
Previous research on empathetic dialogue systems has mostly focused on generating
responses given certain emotions. However, being empathetic not only requires the ability of …

Knowledge bridging for empathetic dialogue generation

Q Li, P Li, Z Ren, P Ren, Z Chen - … of the AAAI conference on artificial …, 2022 - ojs.aaai.org
Lack of external knowledge makes empathetic dialogue systems difficult to perceive implicit
emotions and learn emotional interactions from limited dialogue history. To address the …

E-core: Emotion correlation enhanced empathetic dialogue generation

F Fu, L Zhang, Q Wang, Z Mao - arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.15016, 2023 - arxiv.org
Achieving empathy is a crucial step toward humanized dialogue systems. Current
approaches for empathetic dialogue generation mainly perceive an emotional label to …

Empathetic dialogue generation via sensitive emotion recognition and sensible knowledge selection

L Wang, J Li, Z Lin, F Meng, C Yang, W Wang… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Empathy, which is widely used in psychological counselling, is a key trait of everyday human
conversations. Equipped with commonsense knowledge, current approaches to empathetic …

Improving empathetic dialogue generation by dynamically infusing commonsense knowledge

H Cai, X Shen, Q Xu, W Shen, X Wang, W Ge… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
In empathetic conversations, individuals express their empathy towards others. Previous
work has mainly focused on generating empathetic responses by utilizing the speaker's …

Case: Aligning coarse-to-fine cognition and affection for empathetic response generation

J Zhou, C Zheng, B Wang, Z Zhang… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Empathetic conversation is psychologically supposed to be the result of conscious
alignment and interaction between the cognition and affection of empathy. However, existing …

Multi-party empathetic dialogue generation: A new task for dialog systems

LY Zhu, Z Zhang, J Wang, H Wang… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - aclanthology.org
Empathetic dialogue assembles emotion understanding, feeling projection, and appropriate
response generation. Existing work for empathetic dialogue generation concentrates on the …

Empathetic dialogue generation with pre-trained RoBERTa-GPT2 and external knowledge

Y Liu, W Maier, W Minker, S Ultes - Conversational AI for Natural Human …, 2022 - Springer
One challenge for dialogue agents is to recognize the feelings of the conversation partner
and respond accordingly. In this work, RoBERTa-GPT2 is proposed for empathetic dialogue …

Affective decoding for empathetic response generation

C Zeng, G Chen, C Lin, R Li, Z Chen - arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.08102, 2021 - arxiv.org
Understanding speaker's feelings and producing appropriate responses with emotion
connection is a key communicative skill for empathetic dialogue systems. In this paper, we …