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EmoStance: Response-Side Affective-Orientation Control for Empathetic Response Generation via Emoji Weak Supervision
AI InsightThis work highlights a shift in empathetic response generation: models must decide not only what to say but also how to express attitude. Using emoji distributions as weak supervision introduces a continuous, controllable dimension of listener stance into latent space, offering greater operability than discrete emotion labels.Key TakeawayEmpathetic response generation is extending from content generation to controllable affective expression.Why It MattersTraditional empathetic dialogue relies on discrete emotion labels, making expressive attitude difficult to control. Using cheap emoji weak supervision to build a continuous affective control space may reduce annotation costs and improve the nuance of human-like dialogue, offering practical reference for affective computing and conversation design.Who's Affected- NLP ResearchersProvides a new weak-supervision control paradigm and benchmark dataset that may inspire future affect-controllable generation research.
- Dialogue System DevelopersIf validated, the method could enable cheap improvements in affective expression control for chatbots.
What's NextKey signals to watch: whether EmojiDialogue and code are open-sourced; performance in multilingual scenarios like Chinese; and comparison with RLHF-based affective alignment approaches.Importance 55/100