language:en license:cc-by-nc-4.0 arxiv:2202.13047 region:us
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license: cc-by-nc-4.0
language:
- en
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AugESC is an augmented dialogue dataset for emotional support conversation, distilled from a fine-tuned GPT-J model. 

[GitHub repo](https://github.com/thu-coai/AugESC). [Original paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.13047). 

Please kindly cite our papers if you use this resource:

```bib
@inproceedings{zheng-etal-2023-augesc,
  title={AugESC: Dialogue Augmentation with Large Language Models for Emotional Support Conversation},
  author={Zheng, Chujie and
    Sabour, Sahand and
    Wen, Jiaxin and
    Zhang, Zheng and
    Huang, Minlie},
  booktitle={Findings of ACL},
  year={2023}
}

@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={ACL},
  year={2021}
}
```
