Codes for the ACL 2021 paper: Towards Emotional Support Dialog Systems

If you request for the ESConv dataset, please contact us through E-mail:

• Chujie Zheng (郑楚杰): zcj16 AT tsinghua DOT org DOT cn
• Minlie Huang (黄民烈): aihuang AT tsinghua DOT edu DOT cn

If you use our codes or your research is related to our paper, please kindly cite our paper:

@inproceedings{liu-etal-2021-towards,
  title={Towards Emotional Support Dialog Systems},
  author={Liu, Siyang  and 
    Zheng, Chujie  and 
    Demasi, Orianna  and 
    Sabour, Sahand  and 
    Li, Yu  and 
    Yu, Zhou  and 
    Jiang, Yong  and 
    Huang, Minlie},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 59th annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics},
  year={2021}
}

The corpus file is ESConv.json. We have collected more conversations with more problem topics. ESConv now contians 1,300 conversations with 10 topic problems.

* denotes the new topics added during the second collection. We hope new data supports the future research in transferring the ability of models from old topics to new ones.

We provide two versions of model implementation:

• codes is the version that we used in the original experiments
• codes_zcj is the version reproduced by @chujiezheng