arXiv:2504. 11837v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Emotional support conversation (ESC) aims to alleviate people's emotional distress through effective conversations.
By Yue Zhao, Qingqing Gu, Xiaoyu Wang, Teng Chen, Zhonglin Jiang, Yong Chen, Hongyan Li, Luo Ji
arXiv:2604. 00819v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Understanding emotions in natural language is inherently a multi-dimensional reasoning problem, where multiple affective signals interact through context, interpersonal relations, and situational cues.
By Hemanth Kotaprolu, Kishan Maharaj, Raey Zhao, Abhijit Mishra, Pushpak Bhattacharyya
arXiv:2507. 10599v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: As large language models (LLMs) increasingly power conversational agents, understanding how they model users' emotional states is critical for ethical deployment.
By Maya Okawa, Bo Zhao, Eric J. Bigelow, Rose Yu, Tomer Ullman, Ekdeep Singh Lubana, Hidenori Tanaka
arXiv:2608. 10448v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal emotion recognition in conversation (MERC) requires understanding complex interactions between verbal and non-verbal cues.
By Sujung Oh, Jung Uk Kim, Sangmin Lee
arXiv:2510. 09905v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: When an AI assistant remembers that Sarah is a single mother working two jobs, does it interpret her stress differently than if she were a wealthy executive?
By Xi Fang, Weijie Xu, Yuchong Zhang, Stephanie Eckman, Scott Nickleach, Chandan K. Reddy
arXiv:2608. 10810v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Emotion understanding in discourse requires reasoning beyond surface sentiment because speakers often convey affect through indirect, implicit, polite, ironic, or deliberately mismatched expressions.
By Zhenyan Zheng, Yunyao Zhang, Junxi Sheng, Junqing Yu, Zikai Song