Modeling empathy and distress in reaction to news stories

S Buechel, A Buffone, B Slaff, L Ungar… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2018 - arxiv.org
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 …

Distilling knowledge for empathy detection

M Hosseini, C Caragea - Findings of the Association for …, 2021 - aclanthology.org
Empathy is the link between self and others. Detecting and understanding empathy is a key
element for improving human-machine interaction. However, annotating data for detecting …

Empathic conversations: A multi-level dataset of contextualized conversations

D Omitaomu, S Tafreshi, T Liu, S Buechel… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
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 …

Empathbert: A bert-based framework for demographic-aware empathy prediction

BPR Guda, A Garimella, N Chhaya - arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.00272, 2021 - arxiv.org
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 …

A computational approach to understanding empathy expressed in text-based mental health support

A Sharma, AS Miner, DC Atkins, T Althoff - arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.08441, 2020 - arxiv.org
Empathy is critical to successful mental health support. Empathy measurement has
predominantly occurred in synchronous, face-to-face settings, and may not translate to …

Findings of WASSA 2023 shared task on empathy, emotion and personality detection in conversation and reactions to news articles

V Barriere, J Sedoc, S Tafreshi… - Proceedings of the 13th …, 2023 - aclanthology.org
This paper presents the results of the WASSA 2023 shared task on predicting empathy,
emotion, and personality in conversations and reactions to news articles. Participating teams …

Perspective-taking and pragmatics for generating empathetic responses focused on emotion causes

H Kim, B Kim, G Kim - arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.08828, 2021 - arxiv.org
Empathy is a complex cognitive ability based on the reasoning of others' affective states. In
order to better understand others and express stronger empathy in dialogues, we argue that …

WASSA 2022 shared task: Predicting empathy, emotion and personality in reaction to news stories

V Barriere, S Tafreshi, J Sedoc… - Proceedings of the 12th …, 2022 - aclanthology.org
This paper presents the results that were obtained from WASSA 2022 shared task on
predicting empathy, emotion, and personality in reaction to news stories. Participants were …

Cem: Commonsense-aware empathetic response generation

S Sabour, C Zheng, M Huang - Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on …, 2022 - ojs.aaai.org
A key trait of daily conversations between individuals is the ability to express empathy
towards others, and exploring ways to implement empathy is a crucial step towards human …

CoMAE: A multi-factor hierarchical framework for empathetic response generation

C Zheng, Y Liu, W Chen, Y Leng, M Huang - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
The capacity of empathy is crucial to the success of open-domain dialog systems. Due to its
nature of multi-dimensionality, there are various factors that relate to empathy expression …