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From the earliest experiments in the 20th century to the utilization of large language models and transformers, dialogue systems research has continued to evolve, playing crucial roles in numerous fields. This paper offers a comprehensive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-29 William Tholke

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

Conversations contain a wide spectrum of multimodal information that gives us hints about the emotions and moods of the speaker. In this paper, we developed a system that supports humans to analyze conversations. Our main contribution is…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Joshua Y. Kim , Greyson Y. Kim , Kalina Yacef

Interacting with human via high-quality multi-turn dialogues is a key feature of large language models (LLMs). However, human-based evaluation of such capability involves intensive manual labor. This report provides a preliminary evaluation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Haodong Duan , Jueqi Wei , Chonghua Wang , Hongwei Liu , Yixiao Fang , Songyang Zhang , Dahua Lin , Kai Chen

Nowadays, open-domain dialogue models can generate acceptable responses according to the historical context based on the large-scale pre-trained language models. However, they generally concatenate the dialogue history directly as the model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Zekang Li , Jinchao Zhang , Zhengcong Fei , Yang Feng , Jie Zhou

This paper addresses the gap in predicting turn-taking and backchannel actions in human-machine conversations using multi-modal signals (linguistic, acoustic, and visual). To overcome the limitation of existing datasets, we propose an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Yuxin Lin , Yinglin Zheng , Ming Zeng , Wangzheng Shi

Fine-tuning on instruction data has been widely validated as an effective practice for implementing chat language models like ChatGPT. Scaling the diversity and quality of such data, although straightforward, stands a great chance of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Ning Ding , Yulin Chen , Bokai Xu , Yujia Qin , Zhi Zheng , Shengding Hu , Zhiyuan Liu , Maosong Sun , Bowen Zhou

Tracking dialogue states to better interpret user goals and feed downstream policy learning is a bottleneck in dialogue management. Common practice has been to treat it as a problem of classifying dialogue content into a set of pre-defined…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-06-04 Lizi Liao , Yunshan Ma , Wenqiang Lei , Tat-Seng Chua

As conversational AI-based dialogue management has increasingly become a trending topic, the need for a standardized and reliable evaluation procedure grows even more pressing. The current state of affairs suggests various evaluation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-12 Sarah E. Finch , Jinho D. Choi

Recent years have seen an increasing trend in the volume of personal media captured by users, thanks to the advent of smartphones and smart glasses, resulting in large media collections. Despite conversation being an intuitive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Seungwhan Moon , Satwik Kottur , Alborz Geramifard , Babak Damavandi

Dialogue safety problems severely limit the real-world deployment of neural conversational models and have attracted great research interests recently. However, dialogue safety problems remain under-defined and the corresponding dataset is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Hao Sun , Guangxuan Xu , Jiawen Deng , Jiale Cheng , Chujie Zheng , Hao Zhou , Nanyun Peng , Xiaoyan Zhu , Minlie Huang

Existing benchmarks that assess Language Models (LMs) as Language Agents (LAs) for tool use primarily focus on stateless, single-turn interactions or partial evaluations, such as tool selection in a single turn, overlooking the inherent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Hongru Wang , Wenyu Huang , Yufei Wang , Yuanhao Xi , Jianqiao Lu , Huan Zhang , Nan Hu , Zeming Liu , Jeff Z. Pan , Kam-Fai Wong

Next generation task-oriented dialog systems need to understand conversational contexts with their perceived surroundings, to effectively help users in the real-world multimodal environment. Existing task-oriented dialog datasets aimed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Satwik Kottur , Seungwhan Moon , Alborz Geramifard , Babak Damavandi

Speech synthesis is crucial for human-computer interaction, enabling natural and intuitive communication. However, existing datasets involve high construction costs due to manual annotation and suffer from limited character diversity,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Xiang Li , Duyi Pan , Hongru Xiao , Jiale Han , Jing Tang , Jiabao Ma , Wei Wang , Bo Cheng

Fact-based dialogue generation is a task of generating a human-like response based on both dialogue context and factual texts. Various methods were proposed to focus on generating informative words that contain facts effectively. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Ryota Tanaka , Akinobu Lee

This work presents a new dialog dataset, CookDial, that facilitates research on task-oriented dialog systems with procedural knowledge understanding. The corpus contains 260 human-to-human task-oriented dialogs in which an agent, given a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Yiwei Jiang , Klim Zaporojets , Johannes Deleu , Thomas Demeester , Chris Develder

A video-grounded dialogue system is required to understand both dialogue, which contains semantic dependencies from turn to turn, and video, which contains visual cues of spatial and temporal scene variations. Building such dialogue systems…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Hung Le , Chinnadhurai Sankar , Seungwhan Moon , Ahmad Beirami , Alborz Geramifard , Satwik Kottur

Spurred by recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs), virtual assistants are poised to take a leap forward in terms of their dialogue capabilities. Yet a major bottleneck to achieving genuinely transformative task-oriented dialogue…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Joe Stacey , Jianpeng Cheng , John Torr , Tristan Guigue , Joris Driesen , Alexandru Coca , Mark Gaynor , Anders Johannsen

Interactive sentiment analysis is an emerging, yet challenging, subtask of the sentiment analysis problem. It aims to discover the affective state and sentimental change of each person in a conversation. Existing sentiment analysis…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Yazhou Zhang , Lingling Song , Dawei Song , Peng Guo , Junwei Zhang , Peng Zhang

Providing Emotional Support (ES) to soothe people in emotional distress is an essential capability in social interactions. Most existing researches on building ES conversation systems only considered single-turn interactions with users,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Yi Cheng , Wenge Liu , Wenjie Li , Jiashuo Wang , Ruihui Zhao , Bang Liu , Xiaodan Liang , Yefeng Zheng