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Overview of the NLPCC 2025 Shared Task 8: Personalized Emotional Support Conversation

  • Zhengda Jin
  • , Bingbing Wang
  • , Geng Tu
  • , Ruifeng Xu*
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen

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Abstract

This paper provides a detailed overview of the NLPCC 2025 Shared Task 8, which focused on personalized emotional support conversation. Addressing the dual challenges of acquiring high-quality, nuanced datasets for emotional support and the limitations of generic Large Language Model (LLM) responses, this task aims to encourage the development of systems capable of delivering empathetic and contextually relevant support by taking individual user characteristics into account. The central objective is to train models on a newly created dataset, Uni-Conv, to generate supportive dialogue that acknowledges and responds to users’ unique profiles and situations. This paper outlines the motivation behind the task, the creation and specific details of the UniConv dataset, the evaluation framework employed, the approaches taken by the participating teams, and a summary of the achieved results. Looking ahead, we anticipate that continued exploration and refinement of personalized modeling approaches will pave the way for the development of next-generation emotional support systems that are more attuned to user needs and more human-centered. A total of 3 teams participated in the task, submitting 12 system results.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationNatural Language Processing and Chinese Computing - 14th National CCF Conference, NLPCC 2025, Proceedings
EditorsXian-Ling Mao, Zhaochun Ren, Muyun Yang
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages512-520
Number of pages9
ISBN (Print)9789819533510
DOIs
StatePublished - 2026
Externally publishedYes
Event14th National CCF Conference on Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing, NLPCC 2025 - Urumqi, China
Duration: 7 Aug 20259 Aug 2025

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume16105 LNAI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference14th National CCF Conference on Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing, NLPCC 2025
Country/TerritoryChina
CityUrumqi
Period7/08/259/08/25

Keywords

  • Emotional Support Conversation
  • Individual Characteristics
  • Large Language Models

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