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Research questionHow can empathetic dialogue systems control response stance toward a speaker’s affect?An empathetic dialogue system must infer how to relate to a speaker’s emotional situation while deciding what to say. The desired response stance is often implicit and difficult to represent from dialogue context alone.
AI
Machine Learning
Natural Language Processing
Latest papersRecent research connected to this question, newest first.EmoStance: Response-Side Affective-Orientation Control for Empathetic Response Generation via Emoji Weak SupervisionThe source studies response-side affective orientation in text dialogue, using multi-annotator emoji votes and confidence scores as weak evidence. It evaluates steering a frozen instruction-tuned language model through continuous prefix embeddings in blind pairwise judgments with 20 annotators and 800 comparisons; the reported evidence is limited to this evaluation setting.research paper · Sep 2, 2026
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