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Emotion-aware Chat Machine: Automatic Emotional Response Generation for Human-like Emotional Interaction

arXiv 2106.03044 ↗First posted 6 Jun 2021cs.CL cs.AIcited by 21

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Abstract (arXiv)

The consistency of a response to a given post at semantic-level and emotional-level is essential for a dialogue system to deliver human-like interactions. However, this challenge is not well addressed in the literature, since most of the approaches neglect the emotional information conveyed by a post while generating responses. This article addresses this problem by proposing a unifed end-to-end neural architecture, which is capable of simultaneously encoding the semantics and the emotions in a post for generating more intelligent responses with appropriately expressed emotions. Extensive experiments on real-world data demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms the state-of-the-art methods in terms of both content coherence and emotion appropriateness.

Key facts. Cited by 21 papers in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). Builds on 28 of its 50 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 6 Jun 2021.

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