AI RESEARCH

RECAP: Transparent Inference-Time Emotion Alignment for Medical Dialogue Systems

arXiv CS.CL

ArXi:2509.10746v3 Announce Type: replace Large language models in healthcare often produce emotionally flat or opaque responses, failing to provide the transparent reasoning required for clinical trust. We present RECAP (Reflect-Extract-Calibrate-Align-Produce), an inference-time framework grounded in cognitive appraisal theory that decomposes patient input into auditable, appraisal-theoretic stages without re