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We will demonstrate a conversational products recommendation agent. This system shows how we combine research in personalized recommendation systems with research in dialogue systems to build a virtual sales agent. Based on new deep…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-06 Yueming Sun , Yi Zhang , Yunfei Chen , Roger Jin

When encountering a robot in the wild, it is not inherently clear to human users what the robot's capabilities are. When encountering misunderstandings or problems in spoken interaction, robots often just apologize and move on, without…

AI-assisted usability analysis can potentially reduce the time and effort of finding usability problems, yet little is known about how AI's perceived expertise influences evaluators' analytic strategies and perceptions over time. We ran a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Emily Kuang , Ehsan Jahangirzadeh Soure , Luyao Shen , Nitesh Goyal , Mingming Fan , Kristen Shinohara

Agents that negotiate with humans find broad applications in pedagogy and conversational AI. Most efforts in human-agent negotiations rely on restrictive menu-driven interfaces for communication. To advance the research in language-based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Kushal Chawla , Gale Lucas , Jonathan May , Jonathan Gratch

Recent approaches have explored language-guided classifiers capable of classifying examples from novel tasks when provided with task-specific natural language explanations, instructions or prompts (Sanh et al., 2022; R. Menon et al., 2022).…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Kangda Wei , Sayan Ghosh , Rakesh R. Menon , Shashank Srivastava

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated exceptional performance in reasoning tasks such as mathematics and coding, matching or surpassing human capabilities. However, these impressive reasoning abilities face significant challenges…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Yichuan Ma , Linyang Li , Yongkang Chen , Peiji Li , Jiasheng Ye , Qipeng Guo , Dahua Lin , Kai Chen

The paper copes with the task of automatic assessment of second language proficiency from the language learners' spoken responses to test prompts. The task has significant relevance to the field of computer assisted language learning. The…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Sara Papi , Edmondo Trentin , Roberto Gretter , Marco Matassoni , Daniele Falavigna

In decision-making conversations, experts must navigate complex choices and make on-the-spot decisions while engaged in conversation. Although extensive historical data often exists, the real-time nature of these scenarios makes it…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Mohammad Abolnejadian , Shakiba Amirshahi , Matthew Brehmer , Anamaria Crisan

Human languages use a wide range of grammatical categories to constrain which words or phrases can fill certain slots in grammatical patterns and to express additional meanings, such as tense or aspect, through morpho-syntactic means. These…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Luc Steels , Paul Van Eecke , Katrien Beuls

As Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in customer-facing applications, a critical yet underexplored question is how users communicate differently with LLM chatbots compared to human agent. In this study, we present…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Fulei Zhang , Zhou Yu

We explore natural user interactions using a virtual reality simulation of a robot arm for assembly tasks. Using a Wizard-of-Oz study, participants completed collaborative LEGO and instructive PCB assembly tasks, with the robot responding…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Ryan Ghamandi , Yahya Hmaiti , Mykola Maslych , Ravi Kiran Kattoju , Joseph J. LaViola

In this paper, we describe an effective convolutional neural network framework for identifying the expert in question answering community. This approach uses the convolutional neural network and combines user feature representations with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-11-16 Chen Zheng , Shuangfei Zhai , Zhongfei Zhang

As practitioners increasingly deploy machine learning models in critical domains such as health care, finance, and policy, it becomes vital to ensure that domain experts function effectively alongside these models. Explainability is one way…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-07 Himabindu Lakkaraju , Dylan Slack , Yuxin Chen , Chenhao Tan , Sameer Singh

Software development relies heavily on text-based communication, making sentiment analysis a valuable tool for understanding team dynamics and supporting trustworthy AI-driven analytics in requirements engineering. However, existing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Martin Obaidi , Marc Herrmann , Jil Klünder , Kurt Schneider

The development of artificial agents able to learn through dialog without domain restrictions has the potential to allow machines to learn how to perform tasks in a similar manner to humans and change how we relate to them. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Eugénio Ribeiro , Ricardo Ribeiro , David Martins de Matos

Dialogue systems are a popular natural language processing (NLP) task as it is promising in real-life applications. It is also a complicated task since many NLP tasks deserving study are involved. As a result, a multitude of novel works on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Jinjie Ni , Tom Young , Vlad Pandelea , Fuzhao Xue , Erik Cambria

This paper presents Dialogos, a real-time system for human-machine spoken dialogue on the telephone in task-oriented domains. The system has been tested in a large trial with inexperienced users and it has proved robust enough to allow…

Open-domain dialogue agents must be able to converse about many topics while incorporating knowledge about the user into the conversation. In this work we address the acquisition of such knowledge, for personalization in downstream Web…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-25 Anna Tigunova , Andrew Yates , Paramita Mirza , Gerhard Weikum

In open-domain conversational systems, it is important but challenging to leverage background knowledge. We can use the incorporation of knowledge to make the generation of dialogue controllable, and can generate more diverse sentences that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Cheng Luo , Dayiheng Liu , Chanjuan Li , Li Lu , Jiancheng Lv

Knowledge acquisition and exchange are generally crucial yet costly for both businesses and individuals, especially when the knowledge concerns various areas. Question Answering Communities offer an opportunity for sharing knowledge at a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-08-08 Chaoran Huang , Lina Yao , Xianzhi Wang , Boualem Benatallah , Shuai Zhang , Manqing Dong