{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2026,6,15]],"date-time":"2026-06-15T15:55:51Z","timestamp":1781538951586,"version":"3.54.5"},"publisher-location":"New York, NY, USA","reference-count":41,"publisher":"ACM","license":[{"start":{"date-parts":[[2026,6,15]],"date-time":"2026-06-15T00:00:00Z","timestamp":1781481600000},"content-version":"vor","delay-in-days":0,"URL":"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/legalcode"}],"funder":[{"name":"National Natural Science Foundation of China","award":["62302354"],"award-info":[{"award-number":["62302354"]}]}],"content-domain":{"domain":["dl.acm.org"],"crossmark-restriction":true},"short-container-title":[],"published-print":{"date-parts":[[2026,6,16]]},"DOI":"10.1145\/3805622.3810708","type":"proceedings-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,6,15]],"date-time":"2026-06-15T14:42:57Z","timestamp":1781534577000},"page":"1889-1898","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Sticker-Enriched Empathetic Response Generation: A Role-Aware Pairing Benchmark and A Novel Multimodal Framework"],"prefix":"10.1145","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2951-4833","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Wei","family":"Zhang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi\u2019an, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2647-3987","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Changhong","family":"Jiang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi\u2019an, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0001-8052-5987","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Lulu","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi\u2019an, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0007-4247-0747","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Mingting","family":"Yu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi\u2019an, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0007-1912-5574","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Siyuan","family":"Zhao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi\u2019an, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1890-7845","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ronghan","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Xidian University, Xi\u2019an, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"320","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,6,15]]},"reference":[{"key":"e_1_3_3_2_2_2","unstructured":"Jinze Bai Shuai Bai Shusheng Yang Shijie Wang Sinan Tan Peng Wang Junyang Lin Chang Zhou and Jingren Zhou. 2023. Qwen-VL: A Versatile Vision-Language Model for Understanding Localization Text Reading and Beyond. arxiv:https:\/\/arXiv.org\/abs\/2308.12966\u00a0[cs.CV] https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2308.12966"},{"key":"e_1_3_3_2_3_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1145\/3616855.3635836"},{"key":"e_1_3_3_2_4_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1145\/3616855.3635836"},{"key":"e_1_3_3_2_5_2","unstructured":"Xinhao Chen Chong Yang Man Lan Li Cai Yang Chen Tu Hu Xinlin Zhuang and Aimin Zhou. 2024. Cause-Aware Empathetic Response Generation via Chain-of-Thought Fine-Tuning. arxiv:https:\/\/arXiv.org\/abs\/2408.11599\u00a0[cs.CL] https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2408.11599"},{"key":"e_1_3_3_2_6_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Alan\u00a0S. Cowen and Dacher Keltner. 2017. Self-report captures 27 distinct categories of emotion bridged by continuous gradients. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114 38 (2017) E7900\u2013E7909.","DOI":"10.1073\/pnas.1702247114"},{"key":"e_1_3_3_2_7_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Paul Ekman. 1992. An argument for basic emotions. Cognition and Emotion 6 3-4 (1992) 169\u2013200.","DOI":"10.1080\/02699939208411068"},{"key":"e_1_3_3_2_8_2","unstructured":"Zhengcong Fei Zekang Li Jinchao Zhang Yang Feng and Jie Zhou. 2021. Towards Expressive Communication with Internet Memes: A New Multimodal Conversation Dataset and Benchmark. arxiv:https:\/\/arXiv.org\/abs\/2109.01839\u00a0[cs.CL] https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2109.01839"},{"key":"e_1_3_3_2_9_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1007\/978-3-031-30675-4_44"},{"key":"e_1_3_3_2_10_2","unstructured":"Team GLM Aohan Zeng Bin Xu et\u00a0al. 2024. ChatGLM: A Family of Large Language Models from GLM-130B to GLM-4 All Tools. arxiv:https:\/\/arXiv.org\/abs\/2406.12793\u00a0[cs.CL] https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2406.12793"},{"key":"e_1_3_3_2_11_2","unstructured":"Aaron Grattafiori Abhimanyu Dubey Abhinav Jauhri et\u00a0al. 2024. The Llama 3 Herd of Models. arxiv:https:\/\/arXiv.org\/abs\/2407.21783\u00a0[cs.AI] https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2407.21783"},{"key":"e_1_3_3_2_12_2","volume-title":"International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)","author":"Hu Edward\u00a0J.","year":"2022","unstructured":"Edward\u00a0J. Hu, Yelong Shen, Phillip Wallis, Zeyuan Allen-Zhu, Yuanzhi Li, Shean Wang, Lu Wang, and Weizhu Chen. 2022. LoRA: Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models. In International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR). https:\/\/openreview.net\/forum?id=npxvxaGrrvG"},{"key":"e_1_3_3_2_13_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1145\/3627673.3679687"},{"key":"e_1_3_3_2_14_2","unstructured":"Diederik\u00a0P. Kingma and Jimmy Ba. 2017. Adam: A Method for Stochastic Optimization. arxiv:https:\/\/arXiv.org\/abs\/1412.6980\u00a0[cs.LG] https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1412.6980"},{"key":"e_1_3_3_2_15_2","unstructured":"Jiwei Li Michel Galley Chris Brockett Jianfeng Gao and Bill Dolan. 2016. A Diversity-Promoting Objective Function for Neural Conversation Models. arxiv:https:\/\/arXiv.org\/abs\/1510.03055\u00a0[cs.CL] https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1510.03055"},{"key":"e_1_3_3_2_16_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","unstructured":"Bin Liang Bingbing Wang Zhixin Bai Qiwei Lang Mingwei Sun Kaiheng Hou Lanjun Zhou Ruifeng Xu and Kam-Fai Wong. 2025. Reply With Sticker: New Dataset and Model for Sticker Retrieval. IEEE Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing PP (01 2025) 1\u201312. 10.1109\/TASLPRO.2025.3587415","DOI":"10.1109\/TASLPRO.2025.3587415"},{"key":"e_1_3_3_2_17_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1145\/3746027.3762029"},{"key":"e_1_3_3_2_18_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.18653\/v1\/D16-1230"},{"key":"e_1_3_3_2_19_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1145\/3503161.3548407"},{"key":"e_1_3_3_2_20_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","unstructured":"Yoshiya Moriguchi Jean Decety Takashi Ohnishi Motonari Maeda Takeyuki Mori Kiyotaka Nemoto Hiroshi Matsuda and Gen Komaki. 2006. Empathy and Judging Other\u2019s Pain: An fMRI Study of Alexithymia. Cerebral Cortex 17 9 (12 2006) 2223\u20132234. arXiv:https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/cercor\/article-pdf\/17\/9\/2223\/17298804\/bhl130.pdf10.1093\/cercor\/bhl130","DOI":"10.1093\/cercor\/bhl130"},{"key":"e_1_3_3_2_21_2","unstructured":"OpenAI Josh Achiam Steven Adler Sandhini Agarwal Lama Ahmad Ilge Akkaya Florencia\u00a0Leoni Aleman Diogo Almeida Janko Altenschmidt Sam Altman Shyamal Anadkat Red Avila Igor Babuschkin Suchir Balaji Valerie Balcom Paul Baltescu Haiming Bao Mohammad Bavarian Jeff Belgum Irwan Bello Jake Berdine Gabriel Bernadett-Shapiro Christopher Berner Lenny Bogdonoff Oleg Boiko Madelaine Boyd Anna-Luisa Brakman Greg Brockman Tim Brooks Miles Brundage Kevin Button Trevor Cai Rosie Campbell Andrew Cann Brittany Carey Chelsea Carlson Rory Carmichael Brooke Chan Che Chang Fotis Chantzis Derek Chen Sully Chen Ruby Chen Jason Chen Mark Chen Ben Chess Chester Cho Casey Chu Hyung\u00a0Won Chung Dave Cummings Jeremiah Currier Yunxing Dai Cory Decareaux Thomas Degry Noah Deutsch Damien Deville Arka Dhar David Dohan Steve Dowling Sheila Dunning Adrien Ecoffet Atty Eleti Tyna Eloundou David Farhi Liam Fedus Niko Felix Sim\u00f3n\u00a0Posada Fishman Juston Forte Isabella Fulford Leo Gao Elie Georges Christian Gibson Vik Goel Tarun Gogineni Gabriel Goh Rapha Gontijo-Lopes Jonathan Gordon Morgan Grafstein Scott Gray Ryan Greene Joshua Gross Shixiang\u00a0Shane Gu Yufei Guo Chris Hallacy Jesse Han Jeff Harris Yuchen He Mike Heaton Johannes Heidecke Chris Hesse Alan Hickey Wade Hickey Peter Hoeschele Brandon Houghton Kenny Hsu Shengli Hu Xin Hu Joost Huizinga Shantanu Jain Shawn Jain Joanne Jang Angela Jiang Roger Jiang Haozhun Jin Denny Jin Shino Jomoto Billie Jonn Heewoo Jun Tomer Kaftan \u0141ukasz Kaiser Ali Kamali Ingmar Kanitscheider Nitish\u00a0Shirish Keskar Tabarak Khan Logan Kilpatrick Jong\u00a0Wook Kim Christina Kim Yongjik Kim Jan\u00a0Hendrik Kirchner Jamie Kiros Matt Knight Daniel Kokotajlo \u0141ukasz Kondraciuk Andrew Kondrich Aris Konstantinidis Kyle Kosic Gretchen Krueger Vishal Kuo Michael Lampe Ikai Lan Teddy Lee Jan Leike Jade Leung Daniel Levy Chak\u00a0Ming Li Rachel Lim Molly Lin Stephanie Lin Mateusz Litwin Theresa Lopez Ryan Lowe Patricia Lue Anna Makanju Kim Malfacini Sam Manning Todor Markov Yaniv Markovski Bianca Martin Katie Mayer Andrew Mayne Bob McGrew Scott\u00a0Mayer McKinney Christine McLeavey Paul McMillan Jake McNeil David Medina Aalok Mehta Jacob Menick Luke Metz Andrey Mishchenko Pamela Mishkin Vinnie Monaco Evan Morikawa Daniel Mossing Tong Mu Mira Murati Oleg Murk David M\u00e9ly Ashvin Nair Reiichiro Nakano Rajeev Nayak Arvind Neelakantan Richard Ngo Hyeonwoo Noh Long Ouyang Cullen O\u2019Keefe Jakub Pachocki Alex Paino Joe Palermo Ashley Pantuliano Giambattista Parascandolo Joel Parish Emy Parparita Alex Passos Mikhail Pavlov Andrew Peng Adam Perelman Filipe de Avila Belbute\u00a0Peres Michael Petrov Henrique\u00a0Ponde de Oliveira\u00a0Pinto Michael Pokorny Michelle Pokrass Vitchyr\u00a0H. Pong Tolly Powell Alethea Power Boris Power Elizabeth Proehl Raul Puri Alec Radford Jack Rae Aditya Ramesh Cameron Raymond Francis Real Kendra Rimbach Carl Ross Bob Rotsted Henri Roussez Nick Ryder Mario Saltarelli Ted Sanders Shibani Santurkar Girish Sastry Heather Schmidt David Schnurr John Schulman Daniel Selsam Kyla Sheppard Toki Sherbakov Jessica Shieh Sarah Shoker Pranav Shyam Szymon Sidor Eric Sigler Maddie Simens Jordan Sitkin Katarina Slama Ian Sohl Benjamin Sokolowsky Yang Song Natalie Staudacher Felipe\u00a0Petroski Such Natalie Summers Ilya Sutskever Jie Tang Nikolas Tezak Madeleine\u00a0B. Thompson Phil Tillet Amin Tootoonchian Elizabeth Tseng Preston Tuggle Nick Turley Jerry Tworek Juan Felipe\u00a0Cer\u00f3n Uribe Andrea Vallone Arun Vijayvergiya Chelsea Voss Carroll Wainwright Justin\u00a0Jay Wang Alvin Wang Ben Wang Jonathan Ward Jason Wei CJ Weinmann Akila Welihinda Peter Welinder Jiayi Weng Lilian Weng Matt Wiethoff Dave Willner Clemens Winter Samuel Wolrich Hannah Wong Lauren Workman Sherwin Wu Jeff Wu Michael Wu Kai Xiao Tao Xu Sarah Yoo Kevin Yu Qiming Yuan Wojciech Zaremba Rowan Zellers Chong Zhang Marvin Zhang Shengjia Zhao Tianhao Zheng Juntang Zhuang William Zhuk and Barret Zoph. 2024. GPT-4 Technical Report. arxiv:https:\/\/arXiv.org\/abs\/2303.08774\u00a0[cs.CL] https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2303.08774"},{"key":"e_1_3_3_2_22_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.3115\/1073083.1073135"},{"key":"e_1_3_3_2_23_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","unstructured":"Baiyou Qiao Yuekai Zhang Pan Gao Xinchi Li Shuo Wang and Donghong Han. 2025. Multi-perspective empathy modeling for empathetic dialogue generation. Knowledge-Based Systems 314 (2025) 113191. 10.1016\/j.knosys.2025.113191","DOI":"10.1016\/j.knosys.2025.113191"},{"key":"e_1_3_3_2_24_2","unstructured":"Qwen An Yang Baosong Yang Beichen Zhang Binyuan Hui Bo Zheng Bowen Yu Chengyuan Li Dayiheng Liu Fei Huang Haoran Wei Huan Lin Jian Yang et\u00a0al. 2025. Qwen2.5 Technical Report. arXiv:https:\/\/arXiv.org\/abs\/2412.15115"},{"key":"e_1_3_3_2_25_2","first-page":"8748","volume-title":"International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)","author":"Radford Alec","year":"2021","unstructured":"Alec Radford, Jong\u00a0Wook Kim, Chris Hallacy, Aditya Ramesh, Gabriel Goh, Sandhini Agarwal, Girish Sastry, Amanda Askell, Pamela Mishkin, Jack Clark, et\u00a0al. 2021. Learning Transferable Visual Models from Natural Language Supervision. In International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML). PMLR, 8748\u20138763. https:\/\/proceedings.mlr.press\/v139\/radford21a.html"},{"key":"e_1_3_3_2_26_2","unstructured":"Colin Raffel Noam Shazeer Adam Roberts Katherine Lee Sharan Narang Michael Matena Yanqi Zhou Wei Li and Peter\u00a0J. Liu. 2020. Exploring the limits of transfer learning with a unified text-to-text transformer. J. Mach. Learn. Res. 21 1 Article 140 (Jan. 2020) 67\u00a0pages."},{"key":"e_1_3_3_2_27_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.18653\/v1\/P19-1534"},{"key":"e_1_3_3_2_28_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","unstructured":"Carl Rogers. 2007. THE NECESSARY AND SUFFICIENT CONDITIONS OF THERAPEUTIC PERSONALITY CHANGE. Psychotherapy: Theory Research Practice Training 44 (09 2007) 240\u2013248. 10.1037\/0033-3204.44.3.240","DOI":"10.1037\/0033-3204.44.3.240"},{"key":"e_1_3_3_2_29_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1609\/AAAI.V36I10.21373"},{"key":"e_1_3_3_2_30_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Phillip Shaver Judith Schwartz Donald Kirson and Cary O\u2019Connor. 1987. Emotion knowledge: Further exploration of a prototype approach. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 52 6 (1987) 1061\u20131086.","DOI":"10.1037\/0022-3514.52.6.1061"},{"key":"e_1_3_3_2_31_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1145\/3664647.3680978"},{"key":"e_1_3_3_2_32_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","unstructured":"Bingbing Wang Yiming Du Bin Liang Zhixin Bai Min Yang Baojun Wang Kam-Fai Wong and Ruifeng Xu. 2025. A New Formula for Sticker Retrieval: Reply with Stickers in Multi-Modal and Multi-Session Conversation. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 39 24 (Apr. 2025) 25327\u201325335. 10.1609\/aaai.v39i24.34720","DOI":"10.1609\/aaai.v39i24.34720"},{"key":"e_1_3_3_2_33_2","unstructured":"Haoyu Wang Guangyan Zhang Jiale Chen Jingyu Li Yuehai Wang and Yiwen Guo. 2025. Empathy Omni: Enabling Empathetic Speech Response Generation through Large Language Models. arxiv:https:\/\/arXiv.org\/abs\/2508.18655\u00a0[cs.CL] https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2508.18655"},{"key":"e_1_3_3_2_34_2","first-page":"5475","volume-title":"Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics","author":"Wang Xu","year":"2025","unstructured":"Xu Wang, Bo Wang, Yihong Tang, Dongming Zhao, Jing Liu, Ruifang He, and Yuexian Hou. 2025. ECC: Synergizing Emotion, Cause and Commonsense for Empathetic Dialogue Generation. In Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Owen Rambow, Leo Wanner, Marianna Apidianaki, Hend Al-Khalifa, Barbara\u00a0Di Eugenio, and Steven Schockaert (Eds.). Association for Computational Linguistics, Abu Dhabi, UAE, 5475\u20135485. https:\/\/aclanthology.org\/2025.coling-main.367\/"},{"key":"e_1_3_3_2_35_2","unstructured":"Yuheng Wang Xianhe Tang and Pufeng Huang. 2025. MemeCMD: An Automatically Generated Chinese Multi-turn Dialogue Dataset with Contextually Retrieved Memes. arxiv:https:\/\/arXiv.org\/abs\/2507.00891\u00a0[cs.CL] https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2507.00891"},{"key":"e_1_3_3_2_36_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","unstructured":"Jiaqiang Wu Shangfei Wang Yanan Chang and Zhouan Zhu. 2025. Empathetic Response Generation Through Multi-Modality. IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing 16 4 (2025) 3614\u20133623. 10.1109\/TAFFC.2025.3599869","DOI":"10.1109\/TAFFC.2025.3599869"},{"key":"e_1_3_3_2_37_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1145\/3696410.3714739"},{"key":"e_1_3_3_2_38_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","unstructured":"Wei Zhang Changhong Jiang Ming Xia Lulu Wang Zhongtian Hu Jiashi Lin and Ronghan Li. 2026. PDPA: A Prompt-based Dual Persona-Aware Approach for Empathetic Response Generation. Knowledge-Based Systems (2026) 115390. 10.1016\/j.knosys.2026.115390","DOI":"10.1016\/j.knosys.2026.115390"},{"key":"e_1_3_3_2_39_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","unstructured":"Wei Zhang Lifang Wang Ming Xia Ronghan Li Zhongtian Hu and Jiashi Lin. 2025. RoleCF: Role-oriented coarse-to-fine emotion cause recognition for empathetic response generation. Neurocomputing 657 (2025) 131603. 10.1016\/j.neucom.2025.131603","DOI":"10.1016\/j.neucom.2025.131603"},{"key":"e_1_3_3_2_40_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.18653\/v1\/2024.acl-long.417"},{"key":"e_1_3_3_2_41_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.18653\/v1\/2023.findings-acl.843"},{"key":"e_1_3_3_2_42_2","series-title":"(NIPS \u201923)","volume-title":"Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems","author":"Zheng Lianmin","year":"2023","unstructured":"Lianmin Zheng, Wei-Lin Chiang, Ying Sheng, Siyuan Zhuang, Zhanghao Wu, Yonghao Zhuang, Zi Lin, Zhuohan Li, Dacheng Li, Eric\u00a0P. Xing, Hao Zhang, Joseph\u00a0E. Gonzalez, and Ion Stoica. 2023. Judging LLM-as-a-judge with MT-bench and Chatbot Arena. In Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (New Orleans, LA, USA) (NIPS \u201923). Curran Associates Inc., Red Hook, NY, USA, Article 2020, 29\u00a0pages."}],"event":{"name":"ICMR '26: International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval","location":"Amsterdam The Netherlands","acronym":"ICMR '26","sponsor":["SIGMM ACM Special Interest Group on Multimedia"]},"container-title":["Proceedings of the 2026 International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval"],"original-title":[],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2026,6,15]],"date-time":"2026-06-15T15:24:17Z","timestamp":1781537057000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/10.1145\/3805622.3810708"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2026,6,15]]},"references-count":41,"alternative-id":["10.1145\/3805622.3810708","10.1145\/3805622"],"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/3805622.3810708","relation":{},"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2026,6,15]]},"assertion":[{"value":"2026-06-15","order":3,"name":"published","label":"Published","group":{"name":"publication_history","label":"Publication History"}}]}}