Papers with strategy-conditioned reasoning
STRIDE-ED: A Strategy-Grounded Stepwise Reasoning Framework for Empathetic Dialogue Systems (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Empathetic dialogue requires not only recognizing a user’s emotional state but also making strategy-aware, context-sensitive decisions throughout response generation. |
| Approach: | They propose a STRategy-grounded, interpretable, and DEep reasoning framework that models Empathetic Dialogue through structured, strategy-conditioned reasoning. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms existing methods on automatic metrics and human evaluations. |