Papers with explicit strategy prediction steps
EmoDynamiX: Emotional Support Dialogue Strategy Prediction by Modelling MiXed Emotions and Discourse Dynamics (2025.naacl-long)
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| Challenge: | Recent studies show that implicit strategy planning lacks transparency and that LLMs’ inherent preference bias towards certain socio-emotional strategies hinders the delivery of high-quality emotional support. |
| Approach: | They propose to decouple strategy prediction from language generation and introduce a new dialogue strategy prediction framework, EmoDynamiX, which models the discourse dynamics between user fine-grained emotions and system strategies using a heterogeneous graph for better performance and transparency. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms state-of-the-art methods on two ESC datasets with a significant margin (better proficiency and lower preference bias). |