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.
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.
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.
no code implementations • 7 Jun 2024 • Anuradha Welivita, Pearl Pu
With the emergence of large language models (LLMs), investigating if they can surpass humans in areas such as emotion recognition and empathetic responding has become a focal point of research.
1 code implementation • 22 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.
no code implementations • 17 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.
1 code implementation • 17 May 2023 • Anuradha Welivita, Pearl Pu
AI-driven chatbots have become an emerging solution to address psychological distress.
1 code implementation • 25 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.
1 code implementation • COLING 2020 • Anuradha Welivita, Pearl Pu
Our goal is to produce a large-scale taxonomy for empathetic response intents.