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The CMU Wilderness Multilingual Speech Dataset (Black, 2019) is a newly published multilingual speech dataset based on recorded readings of the New Testament. It provides data to build Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and Text-to-Speech…

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Dialogue segmentation is a crucial task for dialogue systems allowing a better understanding of conversational texts. Despite recent progress in unsupervised dialogue segmentation methods, their performances are limited by the lack of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Junfeng Jiang , Chengzhang Dong , Sadao Kurohashi , Akiko Aizawa

Recent advancements in conversational systems have significantly enhanced human-machine interactions across various domains. However, training these systems is challenging due to the scarcity of specialized dialogue data. Traditionally,…

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Medical dialogue systems are promising in assisting in telemedicine to increase access to healthcare services, improve the quality of patient care, and reduce medical costs. To facilitate the research and development of medical dialogue…

Research interest in task-oriented dialogs has increased as systems such as Google Assistant, Alexa and Siri have become ubiquitous in everyday life. However, the impact of academic research in this area has been limited by the lack of…

We introduce the multiresolution recurrent neural network, which extends the sequence-to-sequence framework to model natural language generation as two parallel discrete stochastic processes: a sequence of high-level coarse tokens, and a…

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We propose a novel preference alignment framework for improving spoken dialogue models on real-time conversations from user interactions. Current preference learning methods primarily focus on text-based language models, and are not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Anne Wu , Laurent Mazaré , Neil Zeghidour , Alexandre Défossez

A pressing challenge in current dialogue systems is to successfully converse with users on topics with information distributed across different modalities. Previous work in multiturn dialogue systems has primarily focused on either text or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Kai Nakamura , Sharon Levy , Yi-Lin Tuan , Wenhu Chen , William Yang Wang

Endowing a dialogue system with particular personality traits is essential to deliver more human-like conversations. However, due to the challenge of embodying personality via language expression and the lack of large-scale persona-labeled…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-03 Yinhe Zheng , Guanyi Chen , Minlie Huang , Song Liu , Xuan Zhu

Most existing medical dialogue systems operate in a single-turn question--answering paradigm or rely on template-based datasets, limiting conversational realism and multilingual applicability. We introduce IndicMedDialog, a parallel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Shubham Kumar Nigam , Suparnojit Sarkar , Piyush Patel

This survey provides a comprehensive review of research on multi-turn dialogue systems, with a particular focus on multi-turn dialogue systems based on large language models (LLMs). This paper aims to (a) give a summary of existing LLMs and…

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With the development of the Internet, more and more people get accustomed to online shopping. When communicating with customer service, users may express their requirements by means of text, images, and videos, which precipitates the need…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Nan Zhao , Haoran Li , Youzheng Wu , Xiaodong He , Bowen Zhou

We focus on multi-turn response selection in a retrieval-based dialog system. In this paper, we utilize the powerful pre-trained language model Bi-directional Encoder Representations from Transformer (BERT) for a multi-turn dialog system…

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Most prior work in dialogue modeling has been on written conversations mostly because of existing data sets. However, written dialogues are not sufficient to fully capture the nature of spoken conversations as well as the potential speech…

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Interpersonal language style shifting in dialogues is an interesting and almost instinctive ability of human. Understanding interpersonal relationship from language content is also a crucial step toward further understanding dialogues.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Qi Jia , Hongru Huang , Kenny Q. Zhu

Existing multi-turn context-response matching methods mainly concentrate on obtaining multi-level and multi-dimension representations and better interactions between context utterances and response. However, in real-place conversation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Juntao Li , Chang Liu , Chongyang Tao , Zhangming Chan , Dongyan Zhao , Min Zhang , Rui Yan

In order to better simulate the real human conversation process, models need to generate dialogue utterances based on not only preceding textual contexts but also visual contexts. However, with the development of multi-modal dialogue…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Shuhe Wang , Yuxian Meng , Xiaoya Li , Xiaofei Sun , Rongbin Ouyang , Jiwei Li

We introduce a new dataset of conversational speech representing English from India, Nigeria, and the United States. The Multi-Dialect Dataset of Dialogues (MD3) strikes a new balance between open-ended conversational speech and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Jacob Eisenstein , Vinodkumar Prabhakaran , Clara Rivera , Dorottya Demszky , Devyani Sharma

Managing natural dialogue timing is a significant challenge for voice-based chatbots. Most current systems usually rely on simple silence detection, which often fails because human speech patterns involve irregular pauses. This causes bots…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Ahmet Tuğrul Bayrak , Mustafa Sertaç Türkel , Fatma Nur Korkmaz

When humans converse, what a speaker will say next significantly depends on what he sees. Unfortunately, existing dialogue models generate dialogue utterances only based on preceding textual contexts, and visual contexts are rarely…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Yuxian Meng , Shuhe Wang , Qinghong Han , Xiaofei Sun , Fei Wu , Rui Yan , Jiwei Li