Emotional-Support-Conversation
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Data and codes for the ACL 2021 paper: Towards Emotional Support Dialog Systems
If you use our codes or your research is related to our paper, please kindly cite our paper:
@inproceedings{liu-etal-2021-towards,
title={Towards Emotional Support Dialog Systems},
author={Liu, Siyang and
Zheng, Chujie and
Demasi, Orianna and
Sabour, Sahand and
Li, Yu and
Yu, Zhou and
Jiang, Yong and
Huang, Minlie},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 59th annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics},
year={2021}
}
Data
The corpus file is ESConv.json
. We have collected more conversations with more problem topics. ESConv now contians 1,300 conversations with 10 topic problems.
Statistics
Problem Category
Problem Category | ongoing depression | breakup with partner | job crisis | problems with friends | academic pressure | procras- tination* |
alcohol abuse* | issues with parent* | sleep problems* | appearance anxiety* | school bullying* | issues with children* |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Number | 351 | 239 | 280 | 179 | 156 | 13 | 12 | 18 | 28 | 12 | 2 | 10 |
* denotes the new topics added during the second collection. We hope new data supports the future research in transferring the ability of models from old topics to new ones.
Strategy Category
Strategy Category | Number |
---|---|
Questions | 3801(20.7%) |
Self-disclosure | 1713(9.3%) |
Affirmation and Reassurance | 2827(15.4%) |
Providing Suggestions | 2954(16.1%) |
Other | 3661(18.3%) / 3341(18.2%) |
Reflection of feelings | 1436(7.8%) |
Information | 1215(6.6%) |
Restatement or Paraphrasing | 1089(5.9%) |
Model Implementation
We provide two versions of model implementation:
codes
is the version that we used in the original experimentscodes_zcj
is the version reproduced by @chujiezheng