README.md

[blenderbot-400M-distill](https://huggingface.co/facebook/blenderbot-400M-distill) fine-tuned on the [ESConv dataset](https://github.com/thu-coai/Emotional-Support-Conversation). Please kindly cite the [original paper](https://aclanthology.org/2021.acl-long.269/) if you use this model:

```bib
@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={Proceedings of the 59th annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics},
  year={2021}
}
```