{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/case-aligning-coarse-to-fine-cognition-and","title":"CASE: Aligning Coarse-to-Fine Cognition and Affection for Empathetic Response Generation","arxiv_id":"2208.08845","date":"2022-08-18","proceeding":null,"authors":["Jinfeng Zhou","Chujie Zheng","Bo wang","Zheng Zhang","Minlie Huang"],"abstract":"Empathetic conversation is psychologically supposed to be the result of conscious alignment and interaction between the cognition and affection of empathy. However, existing empathetic dialogue models usually consider only the affective aspect or treat cognition and affection in isolation, which limits the capability of empathetic response generation. In this work, we propose the CASE model for empathetic dialogue generation. It first builds upon a commonsense cognition graph and an emotional concept graph and then aligns the user's cognition and affection at both the coarse-grained and fine-grained levels. Through automatic and manual evaluation, we demonstrate that CASE outperforms state-of-the-art baselines of empathetic dialogues and can generate more empathetic and informative responses.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.08845v2","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2208.08845v2.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"case-aligning-coarse-to-fine-cognition-and","repo_url":"https://github.com/jfzhouyoo/case","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"pytorch","reach":null}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"dialogue-generation","task_name":"Dialogue Generation"},{"task_slug":"empathetic-response-generation","task_name":"Empathetic Response Generation"},{"task_slug":"response-generation","task_name":"Response Generation"}],"methods":[{"method_slug":"align","method_name":"ALIGN"}],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"syntology_url":"https://syntology.ai/paper/2208.08845","atlas_url":"https://app.syntology.ai/?focus=2208.08845","mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}