8 papers
S2TDR: Structured Multimodal Reconstruction for Sticker-Aware Dialogue Understanding
Yuanchen Shi, Fang Kong
Stickers are widely used in social media dialogues to express affect, stance, and intent beyond literal text. Their meanings are often non-literal and context-dependent, making the…
HSPR: Recovering Software-Agent Benchmark Scores via Hierarchical Posterior Inference
Wanyi Chen, Wanqin Shen, Yuanchen Shi +2
Evaluating software agents on a full benchmark is expensive. A small task subset can preserve agent rankings while yielding inaccurate scores. Historical responses provide useful s…
Exploiting Intrinsic Duality for Multi-Hop Question Generation
Maodong Li, Xinyue Kang, Yuanchen Shi +1
Multi hop question generation (MQG) aims to generate questions from multiple given documents and target answers, whereas question answering (QA) focuses on deriving answers from do…
Enhancing Target-Guided Proactive Dialogue Systems via Conversational Scenario Modeling and Intent-Keyword Bridging
Maodong Li, Yancui Li, Fang Kong
A target-guided proactive dialogue system aims to steer conversations proactively toward pre-defined targets, such as designated keywords or specific topics. During guided conversa…
Modeling Multiple Support Strategies within a Single Turn for Emotional Support Conversations
Jie Zhu, Huaixia Dou, Junhui Li +5
Emotional Support Conversation (ESC) aims to assist individuals experiencing distress by generating empathetic and supportive dialogue. While prior work typically assumes that each…
Pseudo-Siamese Network for Planning in Target-Oriented Proactive Dialogues
Xinyue Kang, Maodong Li, Yibin Zheng +1
A target-oriented proactive dialogue system is designed to steer conversations toward predefined targets while actively providing suggestions. The core paradigm of such a system is…
Toward Real-World Chinese Psychological Support Dialogues: CPsDD Dataset and a Co-Evolving Multi-Agent System
Yuanchen Shi, Longyin Zhang, Fang Kong
The growing need for psychological support due to increasing pressures has exposed the scarcity of relevant datasets, particularly in non-English languages. To address this, we pro…
Impact of Stickers on Multimodal Sentiment and Intent in Social Media: A New Task, Dataset and Baseline
Yuanchen Shi, Biao Ma, Longyin Zhang +1
Stickers are increasingly used in social media to express sentiment and intent. Despite their significant impact on sentiment analysis and intent recognition, little research has b…