Handling emotions in human‐computer dialogues has emerged as a challenging task which requires artificial intelligence systems to generate emotional responses by jointly perceiving the emotion involved in the input p...Handling emotions in human‐computer dialogues has emerged as a challenging task which requires artificial intelligence systems to generate emotional responses by jointly perceiving the emotion involved in the input posts and incorporating it into the gener-ation of semantically coherent and emotionally reasonable responses.However,most previous works generate emotional responses solely from input posts,which do not take full advantage of the training corpus and suffer from generating generic responses.In this study,we introduce a hierarchical semantic‐emotional memory module for emotional conversation generation(called HSEMEC),which can learn abstract semantic conver-sation patterns and emotional information from the large training corpus.The learnt semantic and emotional knowledge helps to enrich the post representation and assist the emotional conversation generation.Comprehensive experiments on a large real‐world conversation corpus show that HSEMEC can outperform the strong baselines on both automatic and manual evaluation.For reproducibility,we release the code and data publicly at:https://github.com/siat‐nlp/HSEMEC‐code‐data.展开更多
Understanding is the essence of any intelligent system.We revise our four machine understanding paradigms which are:(i)basic understanding,(ii)rich understanding,(iii)exploratory understanding,and(iv)theory-based unde...Understanding is the essence of any intelligent system.We revise our four machine understanding paradigms which are:(i)basic understanding,(ii)rich understanding,(iii)exploratory understanding,and(iv)theory-based understanding;and we elaborate on the first two of them.We then introduce the concept of two-stage(or deep)machine understanding which provides descriptive understandings,as well as evaluations of these understandings.After a brief systematization of emotions,we cover the following paradigms for agents with two-stage(deep)understanding abilities for emotional intelligence simulation:(i)basic understanding,(ii)rich-understanding,and(iii)switchable understanding.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.61906185,61876053)the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province of China(No.2019A1515011705 and No.2021A1515011905)+2 种基金the Youth Innovation Promotion Association of CAS China(No.2020357)the Shenzhen Basic Research Foundation(No.JCYJ20210324115614039 and No.JCYJ20200109113441941)the Shenzhen Science and Technology Innovation Program(Grant No.KQTD20190929172835662).
文摘Handling emotions in human‐computer dialogues has emerged as a challenging task which requires artificial intelligence systems to generate emotional responses by jointly perceiving the emotion involved in the input posts and incorporating it into the gener-ation of semantically coherent and emotionally reasonable responses.However,most previous works generate emotional responses solely from input posts,which do not take full advantage of the training corpus and suffer from generating generic responses.In this study,we introduce a hierarchical semantic‐emotional memory module for emotional conversation generation(called HSEMEC),which can learn abstract semantic conver-sation patterns and emotional information from the large training corpus.The learnt semantic and emotional knowledge helps to enrich the post representation and assist the emotional conversation generation.Comprehensive experiments on a large real‐world conversation corpus show that HSEMEC can outperform the strong baselines on both automatic and manual evaluation.For reproducibility,we release the code and data publicly at:https://github.com/siat‐nlp/HSEMEC‐code‐data.
文摘Understanding is the essence of any intelligent system.We revise our four machine understanding paradigms which are:(i)basic understanding,(ii)rich understanding,(iii)exploratory understanding,and(iv)theory-based understanding;and we elaborate on the first two of them.We then introduce the concept of two-stage(or deep)machine understanding which provides descriptive understandings,as well as evaluations of these understandings.After a brief systematization of emotions,we cover the following paradigms for agents with two-stage(deep)understanding abilities for emotional intelligence simulation:(i)basic understanding,(ii)rich-understanding,and(iii)switchable understanding.