Sticker-Enriched Empathetic Response Generation: A Role-Aware Pairing Benchmark and A Novel Multimodal Framework.

@inproceedings{zhang-2026-stickerenriched, author = {Wei Zhang and Changhong Jiang and Lulu Wang and Mingting Yu and Siyuan Zhao and Ronghan Li}, editor = {Stevan Rudinac and Zi Huang and Marcel Worring and Lucia Vadicamo and Xirong Li and Pascal Mettes and Lizi Liao}, title = {{Sticker-Enriched Empathetic Response Generation: A Role-Aware Pairing Benchmark and A Novel Multimodal Framework}}, booktitle = {{Proceedings of the 2026 International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval, ICMR 2026, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 16-19, 2026}}, pages = {1889--1898}, publisher = {ACM}, year = {2026}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3805622.3810708}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3805622.3810708} }