EmoCharacter: Evaluating the Emotional Fidelity of Role-Playing Agents in Dialogues (2025.naacl-long)
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| Challenge: | EmoCharacter evaluates emotional fidelity of role-playing agents in dialogues . current evaluations focus on personality fidelity, tone imitation, and knowledge consistency . |
| Approach: | They propose a benchmark to assess emotional fidelity of role-playing agents in dialogues using large language models. |
| Outcome: | The proposed benchmark measures emotional fidelity of role-playing agents and the characters they portray. |
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