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PAL: Persona-Augmented Emotional Support Conversation Generation
Jiale Cheng, Sahand Sabour, Hao Sun +2
Due to the lack of human resources for mental health support, there is an increasing demand for employing conversational agents for support. Recent work has demonstrated the effect…
Chatbots for Mental Health Support: Exploring the Impact of Emohaa on Reducing Mental Distress in China
Sahand Sabour, Wen Zhang, Xiyao Xiao +5
The growing demand for mental health support has highlighted the importance of conversational agents as human supporters worldwide and in China. These agents could increase availab…
Rethinking and Refining the Distinct Metric
Siyang Liu, Sahand Sabour, Yinhe Zheng +3
Distinct- score\cite{Li2016} is a widely used automatic metric for evaluating diversity in language generation tasks. However, we observed that the original approach for calcula…
AugESC: Dialogue Augmentation with Large Language Models for Emotional Support Conversation
Chujie Zheng, Sahand Sabour, Jiaxin Wen +2
Crowdsourced dialogue corpora are usually limited in scale and topic coverage due to the expensive cost of data curation. This would hinder the generalization of downstream dialogu…