Dynamic Commonsense Coordination for Empathetic Response Generation

Researchers introduced DCC, a new framework for empathetic dialogue that dynamically coordinates commonsense knowledge during understanding and response generation.

DCC combines commonsense interaction, relevance filtering, and iterative commonsense-aware decoding to better guide responses.

On Empathetic-Dialogues, it outperformed the CEM baseline in emotion classification and response diversity.

The results suggest that adapting commonsense knowledge at different stages can make empathetic replies more relevant, coherent, and informative.