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| Workshop | Nov 20 |
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We are delighted to have Dr Yanran Li as our keynote speaker at the Student Research Workshop (SRW) of AACL-IJCNLP 2022. The following are the details of the keynote talk.
Topic
The Development of Empathetic Conversational Systems: Maintain Interdisciplinary Vision and Identify Research Problem
Abstract
In the past years, the spread of the epidemic has exacerbated people’s psychological pressure. And the world is facing real challenges especially the surge in demand for mental health services, insufficient medical resources, and uneven resource distribution. To address these problems, researchers have investigated main issues on building empathetic conversational systems capable of caring about and supporting humans. In this talk, I would review the development of empathetic conversation systems, especially the revolutionary changes brought by cognitive reasoning. In the meanwhile, I would relate these developments with the interdisciplinary vision for this research field, and explore potential actions that NLP researchers can take to identify research problems from interesting ideas.
Biography
Dr. Yanran Li was a senior Research Engineer and a Research Lead at Xiaomi AI Lab. She is also an advisor at School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Peking University. Till now, she has published 20+ publications with 2000+ citations. She often serves a senior PC member for various first-tier international venues, and has served as an area chair of EMNLP 2022. Her research interests include natural language processing, intelligent conversational systems, computational emotion and empathy, as well as computational creativity.