Situation-aware empathetic response generation

Zhou Yang, Zhaochun Ren, Yufeng Wang, Haizhou Sun, Xiaofei Zhu, Xiangwen Liao

Abstract: Highlights•We introduce situations and explore their explicit and implicit associations.•We propose a bidirectional filtering encoder to captures the explicit associations.•We propose a reasoning knowledge-based hypergraph neural network.•We propose a novel fine-tuning method to enhance the emotional understanding.