Papers by Juhee Kim
Dialogue Systems for Emotional Support via Value Reinforcement (2025.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Emotional support dialogue systems aim to reduce help-seekers’ distress and help them overcome challenges. |
| Approach: | They propose a value-driven method for training emotional support dialogue systems designed to reinforce positive values in seekers by leveraging online support conversations from Reddit. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms baseline models across support skills, seekers’ emotional intensity, and value reinforcement. |
Two-Step Question Retrieval for Open-Domain QA (2022.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing question retrieval models have shown a significant increase in inference speed but at the cost of lower QA performance compared to the retriever-reader pipeline. |
| Approach: | They propose a two-step question retrieval model with distant supervision to improve inference speed. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model significantly increases the performance of existing question retrieval models with a negligible loss on inference speed. |