EmoStance: Response-Side Affective-Orientation Control for Empathetic Response Generation via Emoji Weak Supervision
Empathetic response generation requires models to decide not only what to say, but also how to respond to the previous speaker's affective situation, so multi-annotator emoji distributions are used as weak affective--attitudinal evidence to induce a latent control space that operationally approximates listener stance.
Zi-Yuan Jin, Yuxuan Ge, Zheng Tian
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