Empathetic Response Generation

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29 shown of 29 papers with code (45 tagged with this task in all), ordered by repositories listed in the archive, not by stars (the archive holds no stars, so PwC's “Social” and “Latest” sorts cannot be reproduced). Papers without a page here are shown as plain text.

• CAiRE: An Empathetic Neural Chatbot
  28 Jul 2019 2 repositories listed
  In this paper, we present an end-to-end empathetic conversation agent CAiRE.
• TOOL-ED: Enhancing Empathetic Response Generation with the Tool Calling Capability of LLM
  4 Dec 2024 1 repository listed
  We validate EKTC on the ED dataset, and the experimental results demonstrate that our framework can enhance the ability of LLMs to generate empathetic responses effectively.
• Empathy Level Alignment via Reinforcement Learning for Empathetic Response Generation
  6 Aug 2024 1 repository listed
  During reinforcement learning training, the proximal policy optimization algorithm is used to fine-tune the policy, enabling the generation of empathetic responses.
• APTNESS: Incorporating Appraisal Theory and Emotion Support Strategies for Empathetic Response Generation
  23 Jul 2024 1 repository listed
  By incorporating emotional support strategies, we aim to enrich the model's capabilities in both cognitive and affective empathy, leading to a more nuanced and comprehensive empathetic response.
• EmPO: Emotion Grounding for Empathetic Response Generation through Preference Optimization
  27 Jun 2024 1 repository listed Syntology ran 9 of 11 samples · 2 unverified · 11 pointer-only (licence)
  We propose a novel approach where we construct theory-driven preference datasets based on emotion grounding and use them to align LLMs with preference optimization algorithms to address these challenges.
• Towards Enhancing Health Coaching Dialogue in Low-Resource Settings
  13 Apr 2024 1 repository listed
  In this paper, we propose to build a dialogue system that converses with the patients, helps them create and accomplish specific goals, and can address their emotions with empathy.
• Dynamic Demonstration Retrieval and Cognitive Understanding for Emotional Support Conversation
  3 Apr 2024 1 repository listed
  Emotional Support Conversation (ESC) systems are pivotal in providing empathetic interactions, aiding users through negative emotional states by understanding and addressing their unique experiences.
• CTSM: Combining Trait and State Emotions for Empathetic Response Model
  22 Mar 2024 1 repository listed
  Specifically, to sufficiently perceive emotions in dialogue, we first construct and encode trait and state emotion embeddings, and then we further enhance emotional perception capability through an emotion guidance…
• An Iterative Associative Memory Model for Empathetic Response Generation
  28 Feb 2024 1 repository listed
  Empathetic response generation aims to comprehend the cognitive and emotional states in dialogue utterances and generate proper responses.
• Exploiting Emotion-Semantic Correlations for Empathetic Response Generation
  27 Feb 2024 1 repository listed
  Based on dynamic emotion-semantic vectors and dependency trees, we propose a dynamic correlation graph convolutional network to guide the model in learning context meanings in dialogue and generating empathetic…
• ASEM: Enhancing Empathy in Chatbot through Attention-based Sentiment and Emotion Modeling
  25 Feb 2024 1 repository listed
  Effective feature representations play a critical role in enhancing the performance of text generation models that rely on deep neural networks.
• STICKERCONV: Generating Multimodal Empathetic Responses from Scratch
  20 Jan 2024 1 repository listed
  Stickers, while widely recognized for enhancing empathetic communication in online interactions, remain underexplored in current empathetic dialogue research, notably due to the challenge of a lack of comprehensive…
• Harnessing the Power of Large Language Models for Empathetic Response Generation: Empirical Investigations and Improvements
  8 Oct 2023 1 repository listed Syntology ran 1 of 5 samples · 4 unverified · 5 pointer-only (licence)
  Empathetic dialogue is an indispensable part of building harmonious social relationships and contributes to the development of a helpful AI.
• Improving Empathetic Dialogue Generation by Dynamically Infusing Commonsense Knowledge
  24 May 2023 1 repository listed
  To this end, we propose a novel approach for empathetic response generation, which incorporates an adaptive module for commonsense knowledge selection to ensure consistency between the generated empathetic responses and…
• CARE: Causality Reasoning for Empathetic Responses by Conditional Graph Generation
  1 Nov 2022 1 repository listed
  Recent approaches to empathetic response generation incorporate emotion causalities to enhance comprehension of both the user's feelings and experiences.
• Empathetic Dialogue Generation via Sensitive Emotion Recognition and Sensible Knowledge Selection
  21 Oct 2022 1 repository listed
  We use a fine-grained encoding strategy which is more sensitive to the emotion dynamics (emotion flow) in the conversations to predict the emotion-intent characteristic of response.
• Don't Lose Yourself! Empathetic Response Generation via Explicit Self-Other Awareness
  8 Oct 2022 1 repository listed
  As a critical step to achieve human-like chatbots, empathetic response generation has attained increasing interests.
• Modeling Content-Emotion Duality via Disentanglement for Empathetic Conversation
  26 Sep 2022 1 repository listed
  To solve the task, it is essential to model the content-emotion duality of a dialogue, which is composed of the content view (i.
• CASE: Aligning Coarse-to-Fine Cognition and Affection for Empathetic Response Generation
  18 Aug 2022 1 repository listed
  Empathetic conversation is psychologically supposed to be the result of conscious alignment and interaction between the cognition and affection of empathy.
• Empathetic Response Generation with State Management
  7 May 2022 1 repository listed
  The emotion-aware dialogue management contains two parts: (1) Emotion state tracking maintains the current emotion state of the user and (2) Empathetic dialogue policy selection predicts a target emotion and a user's…
• A Large-Scale Dataset for Empathetic Response Generation
  1 Nov 2021 1 repository listed
  Recent development in NLP shows a strong trend towards refining pre-trained models with a domain-specific dataset.
• Perspective-taking and Pragmatics for Generating Empathetic Responses Focused on Emotion Causes
  18 Sep 2021 1 repository listed Syntology ran 1 of 5 samples · 4 unverified
  Empathy is a complex cognitive ability based on the reasoning of others' affective states.
• CEM: Commonsense-aware Empathetic Response Generation
  13 Sep 2021 1 repository listed
  We evaluate our approach on EmpatheticDialogues, which is a widely-used benchmark dataset for empathetic response generation.
• Affective Decoding for Empathetic Response Generation
  18 Aug 2021 1 repository listed
  Understanding speaker's feelings and producing appropriate responses with emotion connection is a key communicative skill for empathetic dialogue systems.
• Exemplars-guided Empathetic Response Generation Controlled by the Elements of Human Communication
  22 Jun 2021 1 repository listed
  We empirically show that these approaches yield significant improvements in empathetic response quality in terms of both automated and human-evaluated metrics.
• CoMAE: A Multi-factor Hierarchical Framework for Empathetic Response Generation
  18 May 2021 1 repository listed
  However, existing methods for empathetic response generation usually either consider only one empathy factor or ignore the hierarchical relationships between different factors, leading to a weak ability of empathy…
• Empathetic Dialog Generation with Fine-Grained Intents
  14 May 2021 1 repository listed
  Empathetic dialog generation aims at generating coherent responses following previous dialog turns and, more importantly, showing a sense of caring and a desire to help.
• Empathetic BERT2BERT Conversational Model: Learning Arabic Language Generation with Little Data
  7 Mar 2021 1 repository listed
  The shortcomings of NLG encoder-decoder models are primarily due to the lack of Arabic datasets suitable to train NLG models such as conversational agents.
• MIME: MIMicking Emotions for Empathetic Response Generation
  4 Oct 2020 1 repository listed Syntology ran 1 of 4 samples · 3 unverified
  Current approaches to empathetic response generation view the set of emotions expressed in the input text as a flat structure, where all the emotions are treated uniformly.

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