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We present ConvLab-2, an open-source toolkit that enables researchers to build task-oriented dialogue systems with state-of-the-art models, perform an end-to-end evaluation, and diagnose the weakness of systems. As the successor of ConvLab…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Qi Zhu , Zheng Zhang , Yan Fang , Xiang Li , Ryuichi Takanobu , Jinchao Li , Baolin Peng , Jianfeng Gao , Xiaoyan Zhu , Minlie Huang

Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) is one of the core components of a task-oriented dialogue system, which aims to extract the semantic meaning of user queries (e.g., intents and slots). In this work, we introduce OpenSLU, an open-source…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Libo Qin , Qiguang Chen , Xiao Xu , Yunlong Feng , Wanxiang Che

Open-domain social dialogue is one of the long-standing goals of Artificial Intelligence. This year, the Amazon Alexa Prize challenge was announced for the first time, where real customers get to rate systems developed by leading…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-12-21 Ioannis Papaioannou , Amanda Cercas Curry , Jose L. Part , Igor Shalyminov , Xinnuo Xu , Yanchao Yu , Ondřej Dušek , Verena Rieser , Oliver Lemon

Existing conversational datasets consist either of written proxies for dialog or small-scale transcriptions of natural speech. We introduce 'Interview': a large-scale (105K conversations) media dialog dataset collected from news interview…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-08 Bodhisattwa Prasad Majumder , Shuyang Li , Jianmo Ni , Julian McAuley

Conversational recommender system is an emerging area that has garnered an increasing interest in the community, especially with the advancements in large language models (LLMs) that enable diverse reasoning over conversational input.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Minjin Kim , Minju Kim , Hana Kim , Beong-woo Kwak , Soyeon Chun , Hyunseo Kim , SeongKu Kang , Youngjae Yu , Jinyoung Yeo , Dongha Lee

The field of eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) is increasingly recognizing the need to personalize and/or interactively adapt the explanation to better reflect users' explanation needs. While dialogue-based approaches to XAI have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Dimitry Mindlin , Amelie Sophie Robrecht , Michael Morasch , Philipp Cimiano

One challenge in technical interviews is the think-aloud process, where candidates verbalize their thought processes while solving coding tasks. Despite its importance, opportunities for structured practice remain limited. Conversational AI…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Taufiq Daryanto , Sophia Stil , Xiaohan Ding , Daniel Manesh , Sang Won Lee , Tim Lee , Stephanie Lunn , Sarah Rodriguez , Chris Brown , Eugenia Rho

Conversational Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems have recently sky-rocketed in popularity and are now used in many applications, from car assistants to customer support. The development of conversational AI systems is supported by a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Johan Aronsson , Philip Lu , Daniel Strüber , Thorsten Berger

Conversational search is a relatively young area of research that aims at automating an information-seeking dialogue. In this paper we help to position it with respect to other research areas within conversational Artificial Intelligence…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Svitlana Vakulenko , Evangelos Kanoulas , Maarten de Rijke

Existing datasets for audio understanding primarily focus on single-turn interactions (i.e. audio captioning, audio question answering) for describing audio in natural language, thus limiting understanding audio via interactive dialogue. To…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Arushi Goel , Zhifeng Kong , Rafael Valle , Bryan Catanzaro

As the latest advancements in natural language processing, large language models (LLMs) have achieved human-level language understanding and generation abilities in many real-world tasks, and even have been regarded as a potential path to…

This document presents a detailed description of the challenge on clarifying questions for dialogue systems (ClariQ). The challenge is organized as part of the Conversational AI challenge series (ConvAI3) at Search Oriented Conversational…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-25 Mohammad Aliannejadi , Julia Kiseleva , Aleksandr Chuklin , Jeff Dalton , Mikhail Burtsev

We introduce a pair of tools, Rasa NLU and Rasa Core, which are open source python libraries for building conversational software. Their purpose is to make machine-learning based dialogue management and language understanding accessible to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-12-18 Tom Bocklisch , Joey Faulkner , Nick Pawlowski , Alan Nichol

Recent advancements in reference-free learned metrics for open-domain dialogue evaluation have been driven by the progress in pre-trained language models and the availability of dialogue data with high-quality human annotations. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Chen Zhang , Luis Fernando D'Haro , Chengguang Tang , Ke Shi , Guohua Tang , Haizhou Li

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

Language assessment plays a crucial role in diagnosing and treating individuals with speech, language, and communication disorders caused by neurogenic conditions, whether developmental or acquired. However, current assessment methods are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Charalambos Themistocleous

Proactive dialogue systems, related to a wide range of real-world conversational applications, equip the conversational agent with the capability of leading the conversation direction towards achieving pre-defined targets or fulfilling…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Yang Deng , Wenqiang Lei , Wai Lam , Tat-Seng Chua

This paper presents a conversational AI platform called Flowstorm. Flowstorm is an open-source SaaS project suitable for creating, running, and analyzing conversational applications. Thanks to the fast and fully automated build process, the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Jan Pichl , Petr Marek , Jakub Konrád , Petr Lorenc , Ondřej Kobza , Tomáš Zajíček , Jan Šedivý

As large language models (LLMs) like OpenAI's GPT series continue to make strides, we witness the emergence of artificial intelligence applications in an ever-expanding range of fields. In medicine, these LLMs hold considerable promise for…

Traditional methods for eliciting people's opinions face a trade-off between depth and scale: structured surveys enable large-scale data collection but limit respondents' ability to voice their opinions in their own words, while…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Alexander Wuttke , Matthias Aßenmacher , Christopher Klamm , Max M. Lang , Quirin Würschinger , Frauke Kreuter