EmpBot: A T5-based Empathetic Chatbot focusing on Sentiments

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2111.00310v1
• Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2021 19:04:48 GMT
• Title: EmpBot: A T5-based Empathetic Chatbot focusing on Sentiments
• Authors: Emmanouil Zaranis, Georgios Paraskevopoulos, Athanasios Katsamanis, Alexandros Potamianos
• Abstract summary: Empathetic conversational agents should not only understand what is being discussed, but also acknowledge the implied feelings of the conversation partner. We propose a method based on a transformer pretrained language model (T5) We evaluate our model on the EmpatheticDialogues dataset using both automated metrics and human evaluation.
• Score: 75.11753644302385
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: In this paper, we introduce EmpBot: an end-to-end empathetic chatbot. Empathetic conversational agents should not only understand what is being discussed, but also acknowledge the implied feelings of the conversation partner and respond appropriately. To this end, we propose a method based on a transformer pretrained language model (T5). Specifically, during finetuning we propose to use three objectives: response language modeling, sentiment understanding, and empathy forcing. The first objective is crucial for generating relevant and coherent responses, while the next ones are significant for acknowledging the sentimental state of the conversational partner and for favoring empathetic responses. We evaluate our model on the EmpatheticDialogues dataset using both automated metrics and human evaluation. The inclusion of the sentiment understanding and empathy forcing auxiliary losses favor empathetic responses, as human evaluation results indicate, comparing with the current state-of-the-art.

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