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Many current artificial general intelligence (AGI) and natural language processing (NLP) architectures do not possess general conversational intelligence--that is, they either do not deal with language or are unable to convey knowledge in a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Vignav Ramesh , Anton Kolonin

Machine learning techniques have conquered many different tasks in speech and natural language processing, such as speech recognition, information extraction, text and speech generation, and human machine interaction using natural language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Sebastian Möller , Pia Knoeferle , Britta Schulte , Nils Feldhus

Knowledge-aided dialogue response generation aims at augmenting chatbots with relevant external knowledge in the hope of generating more informative responses. The majority of previous work assumes that the relevant knowledge is given as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Ante Wang , Linfeng Song , Qi Liu , Haitao Mi , Longyue Wang , Zhaopeng Tu , Jinsong Su , Dong Yu

Complex natural language understanding modules in dialog systems have a richer understanding of user utterances, and thus are critical in providing a better user experience. However, these models are often created from scratch, for specific…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Brian Lester , Sagnik Ray Choudhury , Rashmi Prasad , Srinivas Bangalore

An important task for recommender system is to generate explanations according to a user's preferences. Most of the current methods for explainable recommendations use structured sentences to provide descriptions along with the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-07 Felipe Costa , Sixun Ouyang , Peter Dolog , Aonghus Lawlor

Constructing responses in task-oriented dialogue systems typically relies on information sources such the current dialogue state or external databases. This paper presents a novel approach to knowledge-grounded response generation that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Nicholas Thomas Walker , Stefan Ultes , Pierre Lison

Large Language Models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, have recently been applied to various NLP tasks due to its open-domain generation capabilities. However, there are two issues with applying LLMs to dialogue tasks. 1. During the dialogue…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Siwei Wu , Xiangqing Shen , Rui Xia

In this study, we develop a dialogue system for a dialogue robot competition. In the system, the characteristics of sightseeing spots are expressed as "attribute vectors" in advance, and the user is questioned on the different attributes of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Motoyuki Suzuki , Shintaro Sodeya , Taichi Nakamura

Developing domain models is one of the few remaining places that require manual human labor in AI planning. Thus, in order to make planning more accessible, it is desirable to automate the process of domain model generation. To this end, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-14 James Oswald , Kavitha Srinivas , Harsha Kokel , Junkyu Lee , Michael Katz , Shirin Sohrabi

Open-domain multi-turn conversations mainly have three features, which are hierarchical semantic structure, redundant information, and long-term dependency. Grounded on these, selecting relevant context becomes a challenge step for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Lei Shen , Haolan Zhan , Xin Shen , Yang Feng

High-quality speech dialogue datasets are crucial for Speech-LLM development, yet existing acquisition methods face significant limitations. Human recordings incur high costs and privacy concerns, while synthetic approaches often lack…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Minghan Wang , Ye Bai , Yuxia Wang , Thuy-Trang Vu , Ehsan Shareghi , Gholamreza Haffari

Many NLG tasks such as summarization, dialogue response, or open domain question answering focus primarily on a source text in order to generate a target response. This standard approach falls short, however, when a user's intent or context…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Shiran Dudy , Steven Bedrick , Bonnie Webber

Chatbot is a machine with the ability to answer automatically through a conversational interface. A chatbot is considered as one of the most exceptional and promising expressions of human computer interaction. Voice-based chatbots or…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Sagina Athikkal , John Jenq

In natural language generation for advertising, creating diverse and engaging ad texts is crucial for capturing a broad audience and avoiding advertising fatigue. Regardless of the importance of diversity, the impact of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Yoichi Aoki , Soichiro Murakami , Ukyo Honda , Akihiko Kato

Conversation generation as a challenging task in Natural Language Generation (NLG) has been increasingly attracting attention over the last years. A number of recent works adopted sequence-to-sequence structures along with external…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Changzhen Ji , Yating Zhang , Xiaozhong Liu , Adam Jatowt , Changlong Sun , Conghui Zhu , Tiejun Zhao

How to effectively utilize the dialogue history is a crucial problem in multi-turn dialogue generation. Previous works usually employ various neural network architectures (e.g., recurrent neural networks, attention mechanisms, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Changying Hao , Liang Pang , Yanyan Lan , Fei Sun , Jiafeng Guo , Xueqi Cheng

Existing open-domain dialogue generation models are usually trained to mimic the gold response in the training set using cross-entropy loss on the vocabulary. However, a good response does not need to resemble the gold response, since there…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Wei-Jen Ko , Avik Ray , Yilin Shen , Hongxia Jin

We examine evaluation of faithfulness to input data in the context of hotel highlights: brief LLM-generated summaries that capture unique features of accommodations. Through human evaluation campaigns involving categorical error assessment…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Patrícia Schmidtová , Ondřej Dušek , Saad Mahamood

User-generated reviews significantly influence consumer decisions, particularly in the travel domain when selecting accommodations. This paper contribution comprising two main elements. Firstly, we present a novel dataset of authentic guest…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Reda Igebaria , Eran Fainman , Sarai Mizrachi , Moran Beladev , Fengjun Wang

We aim to overcome the lack of diversity in responses of current dialogue systems and to develop a dialogue system that is engaging as a conversational partner. We propose a generator-evaluator model that evaluates multiple responses…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Ryoma Sakaeda , Daisuke Kawahara