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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Schema-Guided Response Generation using Multi-Frame Dialogue State for Motivational Interviewing Systems
%A Zeng, Jie
%A Nakano, Yukiko
%Y Liakata, Maria
%Y Moreira, Viviane P.
%Y Zhang, Jiajun
%Y Jurgens, David
%S Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
%D 2026
%8 July
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C San Diego, California, United States
%@ 979-8-89176-395-1
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%X The primary goal of Motivational Interviewing (MI) is to help clients build their own motivation for behavioral change. To support this in dialogue systems, it is essential to guide large language models (LLMs) to generate counselor responses aligned with MI principles. By employing a schema-guided approach, this study proposes a method for updating multi-frame dialogue states and a strategy decision mechanism that dynamically determines the response focus in a manner grounded in MI principles. The proposed method was implemented in a dialogue system on two different datasets and evaluated through a user study. Results showed that the proposed method successfully generates responses aligned with MI principle and frequently asks questions to elicit change talk.
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%P 41493-41524

Markdown (Informal)

[Schema-Guided Response Generation using Multi-Frame Dialogue State for Motivational Interviewing Systems](https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.2063/) (Zeng & Nakano, Findings 2026)

• Schema-Guided Response Generation using Multi-Frame Dialogue State for Motivational Interviewing Systems (Zeng & Nakano, Findings 2026)

ACL

• Jie Zeng and Yukiko Nakano. 2026. Schema-Guided Response Generation using Multi-Frame Dialogue State for Motivational Interviewing Systems. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026, pages 41493–41524, San Diego, California, United States. Association for Computational Linguistics.