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most citedPreference-based Search using Example-Critiquing with Suggestions

105 citations · 175 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

cs.CL2024★ 7 cited

Are Large Language Models More Empathetic than Humans?

Anuradha Welivita, Pearl Pu

With the emergence of large language models (LLMs), investigating if they can surpass humans in areas such as emotion recognition and empathetic responding has become a focal point…

cs.HC2024★ 17 cited

Is ChatGPT More Empathetic than Humans?

Anuradha Welivita, Pearl Pu

This paper investigates the empathetic responding capabilities of ChatGPT, particularly its latest iteration, GPT-4, in comparison to human-generated responses to a wide range of e…

cs.CL2023

Boosting Distress Support Dialogue Responses with Motivational Interviewing Strategy

Anuradha Welivita, Pearl Pu

AI-driven chatbots have become an emerging solution to address psychological distress. Due to the lack of psychotherapeutic data, researchers use dialogues scraped from online peer…

cs.CL2023★ 2 cited

Use of a Taxonomy of Empathetic Response Intents to Control and Interpret Empathy in Neural Chatbots

Anuradha Welivita, Pearl Pu

A recent trend in the domain of open-domain conversational agents is enabling them to converse empathetically to emotional prompts. Current approaches either follow an end-to-end a…

cs.CL2023★ 3 cited

Approximating Online Human Evaluation of Social Chatbots with Prompting

Ekaterina Svikhnushina, Pearl Pu

As conversational models become increasingly available to the general public, users are engaging with this technology in social interactions. Such unprecedented interaction experie…

cs.CL2022

AFEC: A Knowledge Graph Capturing Social Intelligence in Casual Conversations

Yubo Xie, Junze Li, Pearl Pu

This paper introduces AFEC, an automatically curated knowledge graph based on people's day-to-day casual conversations. The knowledge captured in this graph bears potential for con…