| COLING24 | Dynamic Reward Adjustment in Multi-Reward Reinforcement Learning for Counselor Reflection Generation |  |  |
| NAACL | Grounding Gaps in Language Model Generations |  |  |
| ➖ | Angry Men, Sad Women: Large Language Models Reflect Gendered Stereotypes in Emotion Attribution |  | ➖ |
| ➖ | Where are We in Event-centric Emotion Analysis? Bridging Emotion Role Labeling and Appraisal-based Approaches |  | ➖ |
| ➖ | The Good, The Bad, and Why: Unveiling Emotions in Generative AI |  | ➖ |
| ➖ | Chain-of-Interaction: Enhancing Large Language Models for Psychiatric Behavior Understanding by Dyadic Contexts |  |  |
| ➖ | Large Language Models Produce Responses Perceived to be Empathic |  |  |
| ➖ | PsyChat: A Client-Centric Dialogue System for Mental Health Support |  |  |
| ➖ | Enhancing Depression-Diagnosis-Oriented Chat with Psychological State Tracking |  | ➖ |
| ➖ | Socratic Reasoning Improves Positive Text Rewriting |  | ➖ |
| AAAI24 | COOPER: Coordinating Specialized Agents towards a Complex Dialogue Goal |  |  |
| ➖ | Muffin: Mitigating Unhelpfulness in Emotional Support Conversations with Multifaceted AI Feedback |  | ➖ |
| ➖ | Enhancing Emotional Generation Capability of Large Language Models via Emotional Chain-of-Thought |  | ➖ |
| ➖ | Can Large Language Models be Good Emotional Supporter? Mitigating Preference Bias on Emotional Support Conversation |  | ➖ |
| ➖ | EmoLLMs: A Series of Emotional Large Language Models and Annotation Tools for Comprehensive Affective Analysis |  |  |
| ➖ | WHO IS CHATGPT? BENCHMARKING LLMS’PSYCHOLOGICAL PORTRAYAL USING PSYCHOBENCH |  |  |
| ➖ | CauESC: A Causal Aware Model for Emotional Support Conversation |  | ➖ |
| ➖ | Think Twice: Perspective-Taking Improves Large Language Models' Theory-of-Mind Capabilities |  |  |
| ➖ | K-ESConv: Knowledge Injection for Emotional Support Dialogue Systems via Prompt Learning |  | ➖ |
| NIPS23 | Aligning Language Models with Human Preferences via a Bayesian Approach |  |  |
| EMNLP23 | VERVE: Template-based ReflectiVE Rewriting for MotiVational IntErviewing |  | ➖ |
| EMNLP23 | Harnessing the Power of Large Language Models for Empathetic Response Generation: Empirical Investigations and Improvements |  | ➖ |
| ➖ | E-CORE: Emotion Correlation Enhanced Empathetic Dialogue Generation |  | ➖ |
| ➖ | Enhancing Empathetic and Emotion Support Dialogue Generation with Prophetic Commonsense Inference |  | ➖ |
| ➖ | SoulChat: Improving LLMs’ Empathy, Listening, and Comfort Abilities through Fine-tuning with Multi-turn Empathy Conversations |  |  |
| ➖ | Knowledge-enhanced Memory Model for Emotional Support Conversation |  | ➖ |
| IEEE23 | Developing Social Robots with Empathetic Non-Verbal Cues Using Large Language Models |  | ➖ |
| ➖ | Refashioning Emotion Recognition Modelling: The Advent of Generalised Large Models |  | ➖ |
| ➖ | Building Emotional Support Chatbots in the Era of LLMs |  | ➖ |
| ➖ | The Capability of Large Language Models to Measure Psychiatric Functioning |  | ➖ |
| ➖ | Leveraging Large Language Models for Mental Health Prediction via Online Text Data |  | ➖ |
| ➖ | A Bipartite Graph is All We Need for Enhancing Emotional Reasoning with Commonsense Knowledge |  | ➖ |
| ➖ | Towards Interpretable Mental Health Analysis with ChatGPT |  | ➖ |
| ➖ | MindDial: Belief Dynamics Tracking with Theory-of-Mind Modeling for Situated Neural Dialogue Generation |  | ➖ |
| INLG23 | Affective Natural Language Generation of Event Descriptions through Fine-grained Appraisal Conditions |  | ➖ |
| EACL23 | Empathy Identification Systems are not Accurately Accounting for Context |  |  |
| ACL23 | Facilitating Multi-turn Emotional Support Conversation with Positive Emotion Elicitation: A Reinforcement Learning Approach |  |  |
| ACL23 | Cognitive Reframing of Negative Thoughts through Human-Language Model Interaction |  |  |
| ACL23 | DiffusEmp: A Diffusion Model-Based Framework with Multi-Grained Control for Empathetic Response Generation |  | ➖ |
| ACL23 | Unsupervised Extractive Summarization of Emotion Triggers |  |  |
| ACL23 | Boosting Distress Support Dialogue Responses with Motivational Interviewing Strategy |  |  |
| ACL23 | Knowledge-enhanced Mixed-initiative Dialogue System for Emotional Support Conversations |  |  |
| ACL23 | TransESC: Smoothing Emotional Support Conversation via Turn-Level State Transition |  |  |
| ACL23 | Improving Empathetic Dialogue Generation by Dynamically Infusing Commonsense Knowledge |  |  |
| AAAI23 | ConvNTM: Conversational Neural Topic Model |  |  |
| ➖ | LLM-empowered Chatbots for Psychiatrist and Patient Simulation: Application and Evaluation |  | ➖ |
| ➖ | Helping the Helper: Supporting Peer Counselors via AI-Empowered Practice and Feedback |  | ➖ |
| ➖ | SMILE: Single-turn to Multi-turn Inclusive Language Expansion via ChatGPT for Mental Health Support |  | ➖ |
| ➖ | MindGames: Targeting Theory of Mind in Large Language Models with Dynamic Epistemic Modal Logic |  | ➖ |
| ➖ | Local dynamic mode of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy |  | ➖ |
| ➖ | Improving Mental Health Support Response Generation with Event-based Knowledge Graph |  |  |
| ICASSP23 | Empathetic Response Generation via Emotion Cause Transition Graph |  | ➖ |
| ➖ | CAB: Empathetic Dialogue Generation with Cognition, Affection and Behavior |  |  |
| ➖ | Commonsense-Aware Prompting for Controllable Empathetic Dialogue Generation |  | ➖ |
| ➖ | Response-act Guided Reinforced Dialogue Generation for Mental Health Counseling |  | ➖ |
| ➖ | Curriculum-guided Abstractive Summarization for Mental Health Online Posts |  | ➖ |
| ➖ | Is GPT-3 a Psychopath? Evaluating Large Language Models from a Psychological Perspective |  | ➖ |
| EMNLP22 | Why Do You Feel This Way? Summarizing Triggers of Emotions in Social Media Posts |  |  |
| EMNLP22 | CARE: Causality Reasoning for Empathetic Responses by Conditional Graph Generation |  |  |
| ➖ | Affective feature knowledge interaction for empathetic conversation generation |  | ➖ |
| ➖ | FADO: Feedback-Aware Double COntrolling Network for Emotional Support Conversation |  | ➖ |
| ➖ | Leveraging Label Correlations in a Multi-label Setting: A Case Study in Emotion |  |  |
| ➖ | Using Emotion Embeddings to Transfer Knowledge Between Emotions, Languages, and Annotation Formats |  |  |
| ➖ | PoKE: Prior Knowledge Enhanced Emotional Support Conversation with Latent Variable |  | ➖ |
| EMNLP22 | Empathetic Dialogue Generation via Sensitive Emotion Recognition and Sensible Knowledge Selection |  |  |
| EMNLP22 | Improving Multi-turn Emotional Support Dialogue Generation with Lookahead Strategy Planning |  |  |
| COLING22 | Does GPT-3 Generate Empathetic Dialogues? A Novel In-Context Example Selection Method and Automatic Evaluation Metric for Empathetic Dialogue Generation |  |  |
| CCL22 | Using Extracted Emotion Cause to Improve Content-Relevance for Empathetic Conversation Generation |  | ➖ |
| IJCNN22 | CogIntAc: Modeling the Relationships between Intention, Emotion and Action in Interactive Process from Cognitive Perspective |  | ➖ |
| SIGIR22 | Towards Motivational and Empathetic Response Generation in Online Mental Health Support |  | ➖ |
| ➖ | Don’t Lose Yourself! Empathetic Response Generation via Explicit Self-Other Awareness |  | ➖ |
| ➖ | Modeling Content-Emotion Duality via Disentanglement for Empathetic Conversation |  |  |
| ➖ | CASE: Aligning Coarse-to-Fine Cognition and Affection for Empathetic Response Generation |  | ➖ |
| NAACL22 | Mitigating Toxic Degeneration with Empathetic Data: Exploring the Relationship Between Toxicity and Empathy |  | ➖ |
| NAACL22 | Emp-RFT: Empathetic Response Generation via Recognizing Feature Transitions between Utterances |  | ➖ |
| NAACL22 | EmpHi: Generating Empathetic Responses with Human-like Intents |  |  |
| ➖ | Empathetic Response Generation with State Management |  |  |
| IJCAI22 | Control Globally, Understand Locally: A Global-to-Local Hierarchical Graph Network for Emotional Support Conversation |  | ➖ |
| ACL22 | MISC: A MIxed Strategy-Aware Model Integrating COMET for Emotional Support Conversation |  |  |
| ➖ | Emotion-based Modeling of Mental Disorders on Social Media |  | ➖ |
| ➖ | Data Augmentation for Mental Health Classification on Social Media |  | ➖ |
| AAAI22 | CEM: Commonsense-aware Empathetic Response Generation |  |  |
| AAAI22 | Knowledge Bridging for Empathetic Dialogue Generation |  |  |
| EMNLP21 | Improving Empathetic Response Generation by Recognizing Emotion Cause in Conversations |  |  |
| EMNLP21 | Distilling Knowledge for Empathy Detection |  |  |
| ➖ | Micromodels for Efficient, Explainable, and Reusable Systems: A Case Study on Mental Health |  |  |
| ➖ | MEDCOD: A Medically-Accurate, Emotive, Diverse, and COntrollable Dialog System |  |  |
| ➖ | MentalBERT: Publicly Available Pretrained Language Models for Mental Healthcare |  | ➖ |
| ➖ | EmpBot: A T5-based Empathetic Chatbot focusing on Sentiments |  | ➖ |
| ➖ | Empathetic Response Generation through Graph-based Multi-hop Reasoning on Emotional Causality |  | ➖ |
| EMNLP21 | Perspective-taking and Pragmatics for Generating Empathetic Responses Focused on Emotion Causes |  |  |
| EMNLP21 | Constructing Emotion Consensus and Utilizing Unpaired Data for Empathetic Dialogue Generation |  | ➖ |
| ➖ | Empathetic Dialogue Generation with Pre-trained RoBERTa-GPT2 and External Knowledge |  | ➖ |
| ACL21 | Modulating Language Models with Emotions |  | ➖ |
| AAAI21 | It Takes Two to Empathize: One to Seek and One to Provide |  |  |
| INLG21 | Affective Decoding for Empathetic Response Generation |  |  |
| ➖ | Predicting User Emotional Tone in Mental Disorder Online Communities |  | ➖ |
| ➖ | Exemplars-guided Empathetic Response Generation Controlled by the Elements of Human Communication |  |  |
| CPL21 | Towards Low-Resource Real-Time Assessment of Empathy in Counselling |  | ➖ |
| ➖ | Modeling Human Motives and Emotions from Personal Narratives Using External Knowledge And Entity Tracking |  | ➖ |
| ➖ | SentEmojiBot: Empathising Conversations Generation with Emojis |  | ➖ |
| ➖ | Towards an Online Empathetic Chatbot with Emotion Causes |  | ➖ |
| ACL21 | CoMAE: A Multi-factor Hierarchical Framework for Empathetic Response Generation |  |  |
| ➖ | Generative Adversarial Imitation Learning for Empathy-based AI |  | ➖ |
| ➖ | Towards Detecting Need for Empathetic Response in Motivational Interviewing |  | ➖ |
| WWW21 | Modeling Human Motives and Emotions from Personal Narratives Using External Knowledge And Entity Tracking |  | ➖ |
| WWW21 | Towards facilitating empathic conversations in Online Mental Health Support: A Reinforcement Learning Approach |  |  |
| ➖ | Empathetic BERT2BERT Conversational Model: Learning Arabic Language Generation with Little Data |  |  |
| ➖ | EmpathBERT: A BERT-based Framework for Demographic-aware Empathy Prediction |  | ➖ |
| NEURIPS20 | CheerBots: Chatbots toward Empathy and Emotion using Reinforcement Learning |  | ➖ |
| LREC20 | Learning word ratings for empathy and distress from document-level user responses |  | ➖ |
| EMNLP20 | MIME: MIMicking Emotions for Empathetic Response Generation |  |  |
| ➖ | EmpTransfo: A Multi-head Transformer Architecture for Creating Empathetic Dialog Systems |  |  |
| SIGIR20 | What If Bots Feel Moods ? Towards Controllable Retrieval-based Dialogue Systems with Emotion-Aware Transition Networks |  | ➖ |
| ICASSP20 | Generating Empathetic Responses by Looking Ahead the User's Sentiment |  |  |
| ➖ | DialogueTRM: exploring the intraAnd inter-modal emotional behaviors in the conversation |  | ➖ |
| COLING20 | EmpDG: Multi-resolution Interactive Empathetic Dialogue Generation |  |  |
| ➖ | A Multi-Turn Emotionally Engaging Dialog Model |  |  |
| ➖ | Emotional Neural Language Generation Grounded in Situational Contexts |  |  |
| EMNLP19 | MOEL: Mixture of empathetic listeners |  |  |
| NAACL19 | Affect-Driven Dialog Generation |  | ➖ |
| ACL19 | Generating Responses with a Specific Emotion in Dialog |  | ➖ |
| LREC19 | Empathetic dialog systems |  | ➖ |
| AAAI19 | An Affect-Rich Neural Conversational Model with Biased Attention and Weighted Cross-Entropy Loss |  | ➖ |
| AAAI18 | Emotional Chatting Machine: Emotional Conversation Generation with Internal and External Memory |  |  |
| AAAI18 | Eliciting Positive Emotion through Affect-Sensitive Dialogue Response Generation: A Neural Network Approach |  | ➖ |
| ACL17 | Affect-LM: A Neural Language Model for Customizable Affective Text Generation |  | ➖ |
| ACL17 | Predicting Counselor Behaviors in Motivational Interviewing Encounters |  | ➖ |
| ➖ | A deep learning approach to modeling empathy in addiction counseling |  | ➖ |