CASE: Aligning Coarse-to-Fine Cognition and Affection for Empathetic Response Generation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2208.08845v2
• Date: Sun, 14 May 2023 09:57:28 GMT
• Title: CASE: Aligning Coarse-to-Fine Cognition and Affection for Empathetic Response Generation
• Authors: Jinfeng Zhou, Chujie Zheng, Bo Wang, Zheng Zhang, Minlie Huang
• Abstract summary: Empathetic dialogue models usually consider only the affective aspect or treat cognition and affection in isolation. We propose the CASE model for empathetic dialogue generation.
• Score: 59.8935454665427
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Empathetic conversation is psychologically supposed to be the result of conscious alignment and interaction between the cognition and affection of empathy. However, existing empathetic dialogue models usually consider only the affective aspect or treat cognition and affection in isolation, which limits the capability of empathetic response generation. In this work, we propose the CASE model for empathetic dialogue generation. It first builds upon a commonsense cognition graph and an emotional concept graph and then aligns the user's cognition and affection at both the coarse-grained and fine-grained levels. Through automatic and manual evaluation, we demonstrate that CASE outperforms state-of-the-art baselines of empathetic dialogues and can generate more empathetic and informative responses.

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