Title
GENERATING EMPATHETIC RESPONSES BY INJECTING ANTICIPATED EMOTION
Abstract
Showing empathy and reacting to users' feeling are important social skills for current dialogue generation systems. In previous research, empathetic responses are generated by 1) only modeling the emotion of dialogue history or 2) indirectly leveraging the predicted emotion label of responses. In this paper, we propose a novel empathetic response generation method that incorporates the anticipated emotion into response generation by minimizing the divergence between distribution of responses' anticipated emotion and ground-truth emotion. The anticipated emotion is predicted by an auxiliary emotion predictor whose input is the previous utterances. Additionally, we treat the generation as deliberation process and design a two-round training method to refine the response iteratively. Experimental results show that the proposed model outperforms the previous state-of-the-art for emphatic dialogue generation task.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1109/ICASSP39728.2021.9413596
2021 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ACOUSTICS, SPEECH AND SIGNAL PROCESSING (ICASSP 2021)
Keywords
DocType
Citations 
Natural Language Processing, Empathetic Dialogue, Anticipated Emotion Injection
Conference
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yuhan Liu1419.47
Du Jiachen2369.02
Xiang Li334582.16
Xu Ruifeng443253.04