Towards an Online Empathetic Chatbot with Emotion Causes

no code implementations • 11 May 2021 • Yanran Li, Ke Li, Hongke Ning, Xiaoqiang Xia, Yalong Guo, Chen Wei, Jianwei Cui, Bin Wang

Existing emotion-aware conversational models usually focus on controlling the response contents to align with a specific emotion class, whereas empathy is the ability to understand and concern the feelings and experience of others.

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Writing Polishment with Simile: Task, Dataset and A Neural Approach

1 code implementation • 15 Dec 2020 • Jiayi Zhang, Zhi Cui, Xiaoqiang Xia, Yalong Guo, Yanran Li, Chen Wei, Jianwei Cui

In this paper, we propose a new task of Writing Polishment with Simile (WPS) to investigate whether machines are able to polish texts with similes as we human do.