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Thesis Proposal: Detecting Empathy Using Multimodal Language Model

Md Rakibul Hasan, Md Zakir Hossain, Aneesh Krishna, Shafin Rahman, Tom Gedeon


Abstract
Empathy is crucial in numerous social interactions, including human-robot, patient-doctor, teacher-student, and customer-call centre conversations. Despite its importance, empathy detection in videos continues to be a challenging task because of the subjective nature of empathy and often remains under-explored. Existing studies have relied on scripted or semi-scripted interactions in text-, audio-, or video-only settings that fail to capture the complexities and nuances of real-life interactions. This PhD research aims to fill these gaps by developing a multimodal language model (MMLM) that detects empathy in audiovisual data. In addition to leveraging existing datasets, the proposed study involves collecting real-life interaction video and audio. This study will leverage optimisation techniques like neural architecture search to deliver an optimised small-scale MMLM. Successful implementation of this project has significant implications in enhancing the quality of social interactions as it enables real-time measurement of empathy and thus provides potential avenues for training for better empathy in interactions.
Anthology ID:
2024.eacl-srw.27
Volume:
Proceedings of the 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Student Research Workshop
Month:
March
Year:
2024
Address:
St. Julian’s, Malta
Editors:
Neele Falk, Sara Papi, Mike Zhang
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EACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
338–349
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https://aclanthology.org/2024.eacl-srw.27
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Md Rakibul Hasan, Md Zakir Hossain, Aneesh Krishna, Shafin Rahman, and Tom Gedeon. 2024. Thesis Proposal: Detecting Empathy Using Multimodal Language Model. In Proceedings of the 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Student Research Workshop, pages 338–349, St. Julian’s, Malta. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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