Azlaan Mustafa Samad — accepted AI-conference papers

2022

Empathetic Persuasion: Reinforcing Empathy and Persuasiveness in Dialogue Systems

Azlaan Mustafa Samad, Kshitij Mishra, Mauajama Firdaus, Asif Ekbal

NAACL 2022findings

Persuasion is an intricate process involving empathetic connection between two individuals. Plain persuasive responses may make a conversation non-engaging. Even the most well-intended and reasoned persuasive conversations can fall through in the absence of empathetic connection between the speaker…

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2022

PEPDS: A Polite and Empathetic Persuasive Dialogue System for Charity Donation

Kshitij Mishra, Azlaan Mustafa Samad, Palak Totala, Asif Ekbal

COLING 2022main

Persuasive conversations for a social cause often require influencing other person’s attitude or intention that may fail even with compelling arguments. The use of emotions and different types of polite tones as needed with facts may enhance the persuasiveness of a message. To incorporate these two…

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