Empathetic Response Generation via Emotion Cause Transition Graph

Understand

Empathetic dialogue is a human-like behavior that requires the perception of both affective factors (e.g., emotion status) and cognitive factors (e.g., cause of the emotion).

• Besides concerning emotion status in early work, the latest approaches study emotion causes in empathetic dialogue.
• These approaches focus on understanding and duplicating emotion causes in the context to show empathy for the speaker.
• However, instead of only repeating the contextual causes, the real empathic response often demonstrate a logical and emotion-centered transition from the causes in the context to those in the responses.