Search Results for author: Anuradha Welivita

Found 8 papers, 6 papers with code

Curating a Large-Scale Motivational Interviewing Dataset Using Peer Support Forums

1 code implementation COLING 2022 Anuradha Welivita, Pearl Pu

We use this data to conclude the extent to which conversational data from peer support platforms align with real therapeutic conversations and discuss in what ways they can be exploited to train therapeutic chatbots.

A Taxonomy of Empathetic Questions in Social Dialogs

1 code implementation ACL 2022 Ekaterina Svikhnushina, Iuliana Voinea, Anuradha Welivita, Pearl Pu

To address this gap, we have developed an empathetic question taxonomy (EQT), with special attention paid to questions’ ability to capture communicative acts and their emotion-regulation intents.

Chatbot Question Generation +1

A Large-Scale Dataset for Empathetic Response Generation

1 code implementation EMNLP 2021 Anuradha Welivita, Yubo Xie, Pearl Pu

Recent development in NLP shows a strong trend towards refining pre-trained models with a domain-specific dataset.

Empathetic Response Generation Response Generation

Is ChatGPT More Empathetic than Humans?

1 code implementation22 Feb 2024 Anuradha Welivita, Pearl Pu

This paper investigates the empathetic responding capabilities of ChatGPT, particularly its latest iteration, GPT-4, in comparison to human-generated responses to a wide range of emotional scenarios, both positive and negative.

Use of a Taxonomy of Empathetic Response Intents to Control and Interpret Empathy in Neural Chatbots

no code implementations17 May 2023 Anuradha Welivita, Pearl Pu

In this work, we make use of a taxonomy of eight empathetic response intents in addition to generic emotion categories in building a dialogue response generation model capable of generating empathetic responses in a controllable and interpretable manner.

Response Generation

Fine-grained Emotion and Intent Learning in Movie Dialogues

no code implementations25 Dec 2020 Anuradha Welivita, Yubo Xie, Pearl Pu

We propose a novel large-scale emotional dialogue dataset, consisting of 1M dialogues retrieved from the OpenSubtitles corpus and annotated with 32 emotions and 9 empathetic response intents using a BERT-based fine-grained dialogue emotion classifier.

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