Every day people share personal stories online, reaching millions of users around the world
through blogs, social media and news websites. Why are some of these storiesmore …

Modeling empathy is a complex endeavor that is rooted in interpersonal and experiential
dimensions of human interaction, and remains an open problem within AI. Existing empathy …

Processing human affective behavior is important for developing intelligent agents that
interact with humans in complex interaction scenarios. A large number of current …

Empathy is a cognitive and emotional reaction to an observed situation of others. Empathy
has recently attracted interest because it has numerous applications in psychology and AI …

Empathy serves as a cornerstone in enabling prosocial behaviors, and can be evoked
through sharing of personal experiences in stories. While empathy is influenced by narrative …

Computational detection and understanding of empathy is an important factor in advancing
human-computer interaction. Yet to date, text-based empathy prediction has the following …

Empathy is commonly defined as the capacity to stand in another's shoes and can be
generally divided into two major components: affective and cognitive empathy. The role and …

Theory-of-mind (ToM), a human ability to infer the intentions and thoughts of others, is an
essential part of empathetic experiences. We provide here the framework for using NLP …

Affect preferences vary with user demographics, and tapping into demographic information
provides important cues about the users' language preferences. In this paper, we utilize the …

Empathy is critical to successful mental health support. Empathy measurement has
predominantly occurred in synchronous, face-to-face settings, and may not translate to …