no code implementations • 1 Jun 2021 • Genta Indra Winata, Holy Lovenia, Etsuko Ishii, Farhad Bin Siddique, Yongsheng Yang, Pascale Fung
The current pandemic has forced people globally to remain in isolation and practice social distancing, which creates the need for a system to combat the resulting loneliness and negative emotions.
1 code implementation • EMNLP (NLP-COVID19) 2020 • Dan Su, Yan Xu, Tiezheng Yu, Farhad Bin Siddique, Elham J. Barezi, Pascale Fung
We present CAiRE-COVID, a real-time question answering (QA) and multi-document summarization system, which won one of the 10 tasks in the Kaggle COVID-19 Open Research Dataset Challenge, judged by medical experts.
2 code implementations • 28 Jul 2019 • Zhaojiang Lin, Peng Xu, Genta Indra Winata, Farhad Bin Siddique, Zihan Liu, Jamin Shin, Pascale Fung
In this paper, we present an end-to-end empathetic conversation agent CAiRE.
no code implementations • 1 Nov 2018 • Farhad Bin Siddique, Dario Bertero, Pascale Fung
We propose a multilingual model to recognize Big Five Personality traits from text data in four different languages: English, Spanish, Dutch and Italian.
no code implementations • COLING 2016 • Pascale Fung, Anik Dey, Farhad Bin Siddique, Ruixi Lin, Yang Yang, Dario Bertero, Yan Wan, Ricky Ho Yin Chan, Chien-Sheng Wu
Zara, or {`}Zara the Supergirl{'} is a virtual robot, that can exhibit empathy while interacting with an user, with the aid of its built in facial and emotion recognition, sentiment analysis, and speech module.
no code implementations • 13 May 2016 • Pascale Fung, Dario Bertero, Yan Wan, Anik Dey, Ricky Ho Yin Chan, Farhad Bin Siddique, Yang Yang, Chien-Sheng Wu, Ruixi Lin
Although research on empathetic robots is still in the early stage, we described our approach using signal processing techniques, sentiment analysis and machine learning algorithms to make robots that can "understand" human emotion.