ESC-Eval: Evaluating Emotion Support Conversations in Large Language Models

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Auteurs principaux: Zhao, Haiquan, Li, Lingyu, Chen, Shisong, Kong, Shuqi, Wang, Jiaan, Huang, Kexin, Gu, Tianle, Wang, Yixu, Jian, Wang, Liang, Dandan, Li, Zhixu, Teng, Yan, Xiao, Yanghua, Wang, Yingchun
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author Zhao, Haiquan
Li, Lingyu
Chen, Shisong
Kong, Shuqi
Wang, Jiaan
Huang, Kexin
Gu, Tianle
Wang, Yixu
Jian, Wang
Liang, Dandan
Li, Zhixu
Teng, Yan
Xiao, Yanghua
Wang, Yingchun
author_facet Zhao, Haiquan
Li, Lingyu
Chen, Shisong
Kong, Shuqi
Wang, Jiaan
Huang, Kexin
Gu, Tianle
Wang, Yixu
Jian, Wang
Liang, Dandan
Li, Zhixu
Teng, Yan
Xiao, Yanghua
Wang, Yingchun
contents Emotion Support Conversation (ESC) is a crucial application, which aims to reduce human stress, offer emotional guidance, and ultimately enhance human mental and physical well-being. With the advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs), many researchers have employed LLMs as the ESC models. However, the evaluation of these LLM-based ESCs remains uncertain. Inspired by the awesome development of role-playing agents, we propose an ESC Evaluation framework (ESC-Eval), which uses a role-playing agent to interact with ESC models, followed by a manual evaluation of the interactive dialogues. In detail, we first re-organize 2,801 role-playing cards from seven existing datasets to define the roles of the role-playing agent. Second, we train a specific role-playing model called ESC-Role which behaves more like a confused person than GPT-4. Third, through ESC-Role and organized role cards, we systematically conduct experiments using 14 LLMs as the ESC models, including general AI-assistant LLMs (ChatGPT) and ESC-oriented LLMs (ExTES-Llama). We conduct comprehensive human annotations on interactive multi-turn dialogues of different ESC models. The results show that ESC-oriented LLMs exhibit superior ESC abilities compared to general AI-assistant LLMs, but there is still a gap behind human performance. Moreover, to automate the scoring process for future ESC models, we developed ESC-RANK, which trained on the annotated data, achieving a scoring performance surpassing 35 points of GPT-4. Our data and code are available at https://github.com/AIFlames/Esc-Eval.
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spellingShingle ESC-Eval: Evaluating Emotion Support Conversations in Large Language Models
Zhao, Haiquan
Li, Lingyu
Chen, Shisong
Kong, Shuqi
Wang, Jiaan
Huang, Kexin
Gu, Tianle
Wang, Yixu
Jian, Wang
Liang, Dandan
Li, Zhixu
Teng, Yan
Xiao, Yanghua
Wang, Yingchun
Computation and Language
Emotion Support Conversation (ESC) is a crucial application, which aims to reduce human stress, offer emotional guidance, and ultimately enhance human mental and physical well-being. With the advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs), many researchers have employed LLMs as the ESC models. However, the evaluation of these LLM-based ESCs remains uncertain. Inspired by the awesome development of role-playing agents, we propose an ESC Evaluation framework (ESC-Eval), which uses a role-playing agent to interact with ESC models, followed by a manual evaluation of the interactive dialogues. In detail, we first re-organize 2,801 role-playing cards from seven existing datasets to define the roles of the role-playing agent. Second, we train a specific role-playing model called ESC-Role which behaves more like a confused person than GPT-4. Third, through ESC-Role and organized role cards, we systematically conduct experiments using 14 LLMs as the ESC models, including general AI-assistant LLMs (ChatGPT) and ESC-oriented LLMs (ExTES-Llama). We conduct comprehensive human annotations on interactive multi-turn dialogues of different ESC models. The results show that ESC-oriented LLMs exhibit superior ESC abilities compared to general AI-assistant LLMs, but there is still a gap behind human performance. Moreover, to automate the scoring process for future ESC models, we developed ESC-RANK, which trained on the annotated data, achieving a scoring performance surpassing 35 points of GPT-4. Our data and code are available at https://github.com/AIFlames/Esc-Eval.
title ESC-Eval: Evaluating Emotion Support Conversations in Large Language Models
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.14952