Computational politeness in natural language processing: A survey

P Priya, M Firdaus, A Ekbal - ACM Computing Surveys, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Computational approach to politeness is the task of automatically predicting and/or
generating politeness in text. This is a pivotal task for conversational analysis, given the …

A multi-task learning framework for politeness and emotion detection in dialogues for mental health counselling and legal aid

P Priya, M Firdaus, A Ekbal - Expert Systems with Applications, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The World Health Organization (WHO) has highlighted the need to greatly
accelerate the prevention of crime and harassment against women and children, thereby …

Transformer Architecture-Based Transfer Learning for Politeness Prediction in Conversation

S Khan, M Fazil, AL Imoize, BI Alabduallah… - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
Politeness is an essential part of a conversation. Like verbal communication, politeness in
textual conversation and social media posts is also stimulating. Therefore, the automatic …

Being polite: Modeling politeness variation in a personalized dialog agent

M Firdaus, A Shandilya, A Ekbal… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Politeness enhances interactions by improving relations between the participants. If there is
a display of rudeness, even the finest conversation can fall through. In addition, if lathered …

Empathetic persuasion: reinforcing empathy and persuasiveness in dialogue systems

AM Samad, K Mishra, M Firdaus… - Findings of the …, 2022 - aclanthology.org
Persuasion is an intricate process involving empathetic connection between two individuals.
Plain persuasive responses may make a conversation non-engaging. Even the most well …

Polise: Reinforcing politeness using user sentiment for customer care response generation

M Firdaus, A Ekbal, P Bhattacharyya - Proceedings of the 29th …, 2022 - aclanthology.org
The interaction between a consumer and the customer service representative greatly
contributes to the overall customer experience. Therefore, to ensure customers' comfort and …

Join me here if you will: Investigating embodiment and politeness behaviors when joining small groups of humans, robots, and virtual characters

S Zojaji, A Matviienko, I Leite, C Peters - Proceedings of the CHI …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Politeness and embodiment are pivotal elements in human-agent interactions. While many
previous works advocate the positive role of embodiment in enhancing these interactions, it …

Please donate to save a Life: Inducing Politeness to handle Resistance in Persuasive Dialogue Agents

K Mishra, M Firdaus, A Ekbal - IEEE/ACM Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In a persuasive conversation for social good, even the most compelling and persuasive
argument may fail to persuade a persuadee resisting the persuasion. Whereas use of polite …

XeroPol: Emotion-Aware Contrastive Learning for Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Politeness Identification in Dialogues

P Priya, M Firdaus, A Ekbal - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Politeness is key to successful conversations. It depicts the behavior that is socially valued
and is often accompanied by emotions. Previously, researchers have focused on detecting …

RLCA: Reinforcement Learning Model Integrating Cognition and Affection for Empathetic Response Generation

Y Su, H Bian, B Fan, B Lian, C Zhang… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Empathy is a crucial field of social science research. The current research on the dialog
systems with empathy has two main limitations: 1) less adequate integration of the cognition …