2021/05/26 by Akhilesh Ravi, Amit Kumar Singh Yadav, Ravi, Akhilesh +9
Computer Science · #AI in Service Interactions #Computation and Language (cs.CL) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining #Topic Modeling
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2105.12399
openalex publication_date 2021/05/26 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The increasing use of dialogue agents makes it extremely desirable for them to understand and acknowledge the implied emotions to respond like humans with empathy. Chatbots using traditional techniques analyze emotions based on the context and meaning of the text and lack the understanding of emotions expressed through face. Emojis representing facial expressions present a promising way to express emotions. However, none of the AI systems utilizes emojis for empathetic conversation generation. We propose, SentEmojiBot, based on the SentEmoji dataset, to generate empathetic conversations with a combination of emojis and text. Evaluation metrics show that the BERT-based model outperforms the vanilla transformer model. A user study indicates that the dialogues generated by our model were understandable and adding emojis improved empathetic traits in conversations by 9.8%