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In modern dialogue systems, the ability to implicitly infer user backgrounds from conversations and leverage this information for personalized assistance is crucial. However, the scarcity of high-quality data remains a fundamental challenge…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Bo Peng , Zhiheng Wang , Heyang Gong , Chaochao Lu

Task-oriented dialog systems have been applied in various tasks, such as automated personal assistants, customer service providers and tutors. These systems work well when users have clear and explicit intentions that are well-aligned to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-01-09 Zhou Yu , Alan W Black , Alexander I. Rudnicky

Task oriented Dialogue Systems generally employ intent detection systems in order to map user queries to a set of pre-defined intents. However, user queries appearing in natural language can be easily ambiguous and hence such a direct…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Kaustubh D. Dhole

Spoken dialogue systems allow humans to interact with machines using natural speech. As such, they have many benefits. By using speech as the primary communication medium, a computer interface can facilitate swift, human-like acquisition of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-09-12 Milica Gasic , Nikola Mrksic , Lina M. Rojas-Barahona , Pei-Hao Su , Stefan Ultes , David Vandyke , Tsung-Hsien Wen , Steve Young

Most prior work on task-oriented dialogue systems are restricted to limited coverage of domain APIs. However, users oftentimes have requests that are out of the scope of these APIs. This work focuses on responding to these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Di Jin , Seokhwan Kim , Dilek Hakkani-Tur

Dialogue systems have many applications such as customer support or question answering. Typically they have been limited to shallow single turn interactions. However more advanced applications such as career coaching or planning a trip…

In this work, we propose a novel framework that integrates large language models (LLMs) with an RL-based dialogue manager for open-ended dialogue with a specific goal. By leveraging hierarchical reinforcement learning to model the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Lucie Galland , Catherine Pelachaud , Florian Pecune

Existing studies on semantic parsing focus primarily on mapping a natural-language utterance to a corresponding logical form in one turn. However, because natural language can contain a great deal of ambiguity and variability, this is a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Lingbo Mo , Ashley Lewis , Huan Sun , Michael White

This work presents a requirement analysis for collaborative dialogues among medical experts and an inquiry dialogue game based on this analysis for incorporating explainability into multiagent system design. The game allows experts with…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Qurat-ul-ain Shaheen , Katarzyna Budzynska , Carles Sierra

Precisely understanding users' contextual search intent has been an important challenge for conversational search. As conversational search sessions are much more diverse and long-tailed, existing methods trained on limited data still show…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Kelong Mao , Zhicheng Dou , Fengran Mo , Jiewen Hou , Haonan Chen , Hongjin Qian

Conversational search (CS) has recently become a significant focus of the information retrieval (IR) research community. Multiple studies have been conducted which explore the concept of conversational search. Understanding and advancing…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Abhishek Kaushik , Gareth J. F. Jones

Conversational retrieval refers to an information retrieval system that operates in an iterative and interactive manner, requiring the retrieval of various external resources, such as persona, knowledge, and even response, to effectively…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Hongru Wang , Boyang Xue , Baohang Zhou , Rui Wang , Fei Mi , Weichao Wang , Yasheng Wang , Kam-Fai Wong

Most popular goal-oriented dialogue agents are capable of understanding the conversational context. However, with the surge of virtual assistants with screen, the next generation of agents are required to also understand screen context in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-26 Sanchit Agarwal , Jan Jezabek , Arijit Biswas , Emre Barut , Shuyang Gao , Tagyoung Chung

Users interacting with voice assistants today need to phrase their requests in a very specific manner to elicit an appropriate response. This limits the user experience, and is partly due to the lack of reasoning capabilities of dialogue…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Yi-Lin Tuan , Sajjad Beygi , Maryam Fazel-Zarandi , Qiaozi Gao , Alessandra Cervone , William Yang Wang

Dialogue systems have attracted more and more attention. Recent advances on dialogue systems are overwhelmingly contributed by deep learning techniques, which have been employed to enhance a wide range of big data applications such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Hongshen Chen , Xiaorui Liu , Dawei Yin , Jiliang Tang

As a promising paradigm, interactive semantic parsing has shown to improve both semantic parsing accuracy and user confidence in the results. In this paper, we propose a new, unified formulation of the interactive semantic parsing problem,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Ziyu Yao , Yu Su , Huan Sun , Wen-tau Yih

Recent advances in large-scale language modeling and generation have enabled the creation of dialogue agents that exhibit human-like responses in a wide range of conversational scenarios spanning a diverse set of tasks, from general…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Abraham Sanders , Tomek Strzalkowski , Mei Si , Albert Chang , Deepanshu Dey , Jonas Braasch , Dakuo Wang

This paper aims to provide a radical rundown on Conversation Search (ConvSearch), an approach to enhance the information retrieval method where users engage in a dialogue for the information-seeking tasks. In this survey, we predominantly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Naga Sai Krishna Adatrao , Gowtham Reddy Gadireddy , Jiho Noh

Task-oriented dialogues often require agents to enact complex, multi-step procedures in order to meet user requests. While large language models have found success automating these dialogues in constrained environments, their widespread…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Julia White , Arushi Raghuvanshi , Yada Pruksachatkun

End-to-end task-oriented dialog models have achieved promising performance on collaborative tasks where users willingly coordinate with the system to complete a given task. While in non-collaborative settings, for example, negotiation and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Yu Li , Kun Qian , Weiyan Shi , Zhou Yu