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Neural natural language generation (NNLG) from structured meaning representations has become increasingly popular in recent years. While we have seen progress with generating syntactically correct utterances that preserve semantics, various…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Shereen Oraby , Vrindavan Harrison , Abteen Ebrahimi , Marilyn Walker

The increasing number of data a booking platform such as Booking.com and AirBnB offers make it challenging for interested parties to browse through the available accommodations and analyze reviews in an efficient way. Efforts have been made…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Nikolaos Belibasakis , Anastasios Giannaros , Ioanna Giannoukou , Spyros Sioutas

Recent advances in neural network-based generative modeling have reignited the hopes in having computer systems capable of seamlessly conversing with humans and able to understand natural language. Neural architectures have been employed to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-03 Cristina Garbacea , Qiaozhu Mei

Conversational question answering systems often rely on semantic parsing to enable interactive information retrieval, which involves the generation of structured database queries from a natural language input. For information-seeking…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Phillip Schneider , Manuel Klettner , Kristiina Jokinen , Elena Simperl , Florian Matthes

Conversational recommender systems aim to provide personalized recommendations via natural language interactions. However, existing approaches either decouple recommendation from dialog generation or rely on retrieval-based pipelines,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Sixiao Zhang , Mingrui Liu , Cheng Long

With the rapid explosion of the World Wide Web, it is becoming increasingly possible to easily acquire a wide variety of information such as flight schedules, yellow pages, used car prices, current stock prices, entertainment event…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2008-02-03 Rajeev Agarwal

Automated evaluation of open domain natural language generation (NLG) models remains a challenge and widely used metrics such as BLEU and Perplexity can be misleading in some cases. In our paper, we propose to evaluate natural language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-13 Wangchunshu Zhou , Ke Xu

Neural generation methods for task-oriented dialogue typically generate from a meaning representation that is populated using a database of domain information, such as a table of data describing a restaurant. While earlier work focused…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Vrindavan Harrison , Lena Reed , Shereen Oraby , Marilyn Walker

Open data portals are essential for providing public access to open datasets. However, their search interfaces typically rely on keyword-based mechanisms and a narrow set of metadata fields. This design makes it difficult for users to find…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Lisa-Yao Gan , Arunav Das , Johanna Walker , Elena Simperl

The generation of planning domains from natural language descriptions remains an open problem even with the advent of large language models and reasoning models. Recent work suggests that while LLMs have the ability to assist with domain…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-23 James Oswald , Daniel Obolensky , Volodymyr Varha , Vasilije Dragovic , Kavitha Srinivas , Harsha Kokel , Michael Katz , Shirin Sohrabi

The future of conversational agents will provide users with personalized information responses. However, a significant challenge in developing models is the lack of large-scale dialogue datasets that span multiple sessions and reflect…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Hideaki Joko , Shubham Chatterjee , Andrew Ramsay , Arjen P. de Vries , Jeff Dalton , Faegheh Hasibi

This article provides a brief overview of the field of Natural Language Generation. The term Natural Language Generation (NLG), in its broadest definition, refers to the study of systems that verbalize some form of information through…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Emiel van Miltenburg , Chenghua Lin

User attributes provide rich and useful information for user understanding, yet structured and easy-to-use attributes are often sparsely populated. In this paper, we leverage dialogues with conversational agents, which contain strong…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Chien-Sheng Wu , Andrea Madotto , Zhaojiang Lin , Peng Xu , Pascale Fung

We present a framework for generating natural language description from structured data such as tables; the problem comes under the category of data-to-text natural language generation (NLG). Modern data-to-text NLG systems typically employ…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Anirban Laha , Parag Jain , Abhijit Mishra , Karthik Sankaranarayanan

Enhancing user engagement through personalization in conversational agents has gained significance, especially with the advent of large language models that generate fluent responses. Personalized dialogue generation, however, is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Yi-Pei Chen , Noriki Nishida , Hideki Nakayama , Yuji Matsumoto

As a cornerstone of modern information access, search engines have become indispensable in everyday life. With the rapid advancements in AI and natural language processing (NLP) technologies, particularly large language models (LLMs),…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Fengran Mo , Kelong Mao , Ziliang Zhao , Hongjin Qian , Haonan Chen , Yiruo Cheng , Xiaoxi Li , Yutao Zhu , Zhicheng Dou , Jian-Yun Nie

Good communication is vital in healthcare, both among healthcare professionals, and between healthcare professionals and their patients. And well-written documents, describing and/or explaining the information in structured databases may be…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2008-02-03 Alison J. Cawsey , Bonnie L. Webber , Ray B. Jones

Large language models (LLMs) are poised to revolutionize the domain of online fashion retail, enhancing customer experience and discovery of fashion online. LLM-powered conversational agents introduce a new way of discovery by directly…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Antonis Maronikolakis , Ana Peleteiro Ramallo , Weiwei Cheng , Thomas Kober

Personalized dialogue systems explore the problem of generating responses that are consistent with the user's personality, which has raised much attention in recent years. Existing personalized dialogue systems have tried to extract user…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Hanxun Zhong , Zhicheng Dou , Yutao Zhu , Hongjin Qian , Ji-Rong Wen

Existing dialog systems are all monolingual, where features shared among different languages are rarely explored. In this paper, we introduce a novel multilingual dialogue system. Specifically, we augment the sequence to sequence framework…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Chen Chen , Lisong Qiu , Zhenxin Fu , Dongyan Zhao , Junfei Liu , Rui Yan