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Dialog summarization has become increasingly important in managing and comprehending large-scale conversations across various domains. This task presents unique challenges in capturing the key points, context, and nuances of multi-turn long…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Ankan Mullick , Ayan Kumar Bhowmick , Raghav R , Ravi Kokku , Prasenjit Dey , Pawan Goyal , Niloy Ganguly

Chatbots' role in fostering self-reflection is now widely recognized, especially in inducing users' behavior change. While the benefits of 24/7 availability, scalability, and consistent responses have been demonstrated in contexts such as…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Riku Arakawa , Hiromu Yakura

Interview chatbots engage users in a text-based conversation to draw out their views and opinions. It is, however, challenging to build effective interview chatbots that can handle user free-text responses to open-ended questions and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-02-06 Ziang Xiao , Michelle X. Zhou , Wenxi Chen , Huahai Yang , Changyan Chi

This paper investigates the enhancement of scientific literature chatbots through retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), with a focus on evaluating vector- and graph-based retrieval systems. The proposed chatbot leverages both structured…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Hamideh Ghanadian , Amin Kamali , Mohammad Hossein Tekieh

In this paper, we focus on extracting interactive argument pairs from two posts with opposite stances to a certain topic. Considering opinions are exchanged from different perspectives of the discussing topic, we study the discrete…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-06 Lu Ji , Zhongyu Wei , Jing Li , Qi Zhang , Xuanjing Huang

Student commitment towards a learning recommendation is not separable from their understanding of the reasons it was recommended to them; and their ability to modify it based on that understanding. Among explainability approaches, chatbots…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Hasan Abu-Rasheed , Mohamad Hussam Abdulsalam , Christian Weber , Madjid Fathi

In this paper, we describe the foundations for generating a chatbot out of a website equipped with simple, bot-specific HTML annotations. The approach is part of what we call conversational web browsing, i.e., a dialog-based, natural…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Pietro Chittò , Marcos Baez , Florian Daniel , Boualem Benatallah

We develop a model of abduction in abstract argumentation, where changes to an argumentation framework act as hypotheses to explain the support of an observation. We present dialogical proof theories for the main decision problems (i.e.,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-07-16 Richard Booth , Dov Gabbay , Souhila Kaci , Tjitze Rienstra , Leendert van der Torre

In this paper, we present a hybrid model that combines a neural conversational model and a rule-based graph dialogue system that assists users in scheduling reminders through a chat conversation. The graph based system has high precision…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Aniruddha Tammewar , Monik Pamecha , Chirag Jain , Apurva Nagvenkar , Krupal Modi

Political polling is a multi-billion dollar industry with outsized influence on the societal trajectory of the United States and nations around the world. However, it has been challenged by factors that stress its cost, availability, and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Nathan E. Sanders , Alex Ulinich , Bruce Schneier

To adequately model mathematical arguments the analyst must be able to represent the mathematical objects under discussion and the relationships between them, as well as inferences drawn about these objects and relationships as the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Joseph Corneli , Ursula Martin , Dave Murray-Rust , Gabriela Rino Nesin , Alison Pease

Conversational agents powered by large language models (LLMs) are rapidly becoming integral to our daily interactions, generating unprecedented amounts of conversational data. Such datasets offer a powerful lens into societal interests,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Wentao Zhang , Woojeong Kim , Yuntian Deng

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

Recent years have witnessed great progress on building emotional chatbots. Tremendous methods have been proposed for chatbots to generate responses with given emotions. However, the emotion changes of the user during the conversation has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-19 Hao Jiang , Yutao Zhu , Xinyu Zhang , Zhicheng Dou , Pan Du , Te Pi , Yantao Jia

The largest store of continually updating knowledge on our planet can be accessed via internet search. In this work we study giving access to this information to conversational agents. Large language models, even though they store an…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Mojtaba Komeili , Kurt Shuster , Jason Weston

This paper presents a dataset collected from natural dialogs which enables to test the ability of dialog systems to learn new facts from user utterances throughout the dialog. This interactive learning will help with one of the most…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-05-17 Miroslav Vodolán , Filip Jurčíček

In this paper, we introduce EmpBot: an end-to-end empathetic chatbot. Empathetic conversational agents should not only understand what is being discussed, but also acknowledge the implied feelings of the conversation partner and respond…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Emmanouil Zaranis , Georgios Paraskevopoulos , Athanasios Katsamanis , Alexandros Potamianos

Despite the multi-turn open-domain dialogue systems have attracted more and more attention and made great progress, the existing dialogue systems are still very boring. Nearly all the existing dialogue models only provide a response when…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-23 Tian Lan , Xianling Mao , Heyan Huang , Wei Wei

Automatic conversation systems based on natural language responses are becoming ubiquitous, in part, due to major advances in computational linguistics and machine learning. The easy access to robust and affordable platforms are causing…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Pablo Rivas , Chelsi Chelsi , Nishit Nishit , Laharika Ravula

With the rapid evolution of Natural Language Processing (NLP), Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT have emerged as powerful tools capable of transforming various sectors. Their vast knowledge base and dynamic interaction capabilities…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Kevin Wang , Jason Ramos , Ramon Lawrence