Emotional Chatting Machine: Emotional Conversation Generation with Internal and External Memory

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Perception and expression of emotion are key factors to the success of dialogue systems or conversational agents.

• However, this problem has not been studied in large-scale conversation generation so far.
• In this paper, we propose Emotional Chatting Machine (ECM) that can generate appropriate responses not only in content (relevant and grammatical) but also in emotion (emotionally consistent).
• To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work that addresses the emotion factor in large-scale conversation generation.