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We present three enhancements to existing encoder-decoder models for open-domain conversational agents, aimed at effectively modeling coherence and promoting output diversity: (1) We introduce a measure of coherence as the GloVe embedding…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-22 Xinnuo Xu , Ondřej Dušek , Ioannis Konstas , Verena Rieser

Context modeling plays a critical role in building multi-turn dialogue systems. Conversational Query Rewriting (CQR) aims to simplify the multi-turn dialogue modeling into a single-turn problem by explicitly rewriting the conversational…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-22 Hang Liu , Meng Chen , Youzheng Wu , Xiaodong He , Bowen Zhou

We outline how utterances in dialogs can be interpreted using a partial first order logic. We exploit the capability of this logic to talk about the truth status of formulae to define a notion of coherence between utterances and explain how…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Bernd Ludwig , Guenther Goerz , Heinrich Niemann

Coherence is a linguistic term that refers to the relations between small textual units (sentences, propositions), which make the text logically consistent and meaningful to the reader. With the advances of generative foundational models in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Aviya Maimon , Reut Tsarfaty

Coherent entity-aware multi-image captioning aims to generate coherent captions for neighboring images in a news document. There are coherence relationships among neighboring images because they often describe same entities or events. These…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Jingqiang Chen

Dialogue structure discovery is essential in dialogue generation. Well-structured topic flow can leverage background information and predict future topics to help generate controllable and explainable responses. However, most previous work…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Congchi Yin , Piji Li , Zhaochun Ren

Maintaining semantic consistency over extended text sequences remains a fundamental challenge in long-form text generation, where conventional training methodologies often struggle to prevent contextual drift and coherence degradation. A…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Nirola Kobanov , Edmund Weatherstone , Zachary Vanderpoel , Orlando Wetherby

Context modeling plays a significant role in building multi-turn dialogue systems. In order to make full use of context information, systems can use Incomplete Utterance Rewriting(IUR) methods to simplify the multi-turn dialogue into…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Zhihao Wang , Tangjian Duan , Zihao Wang , Minghui Yang , Zujie Wen , Yongliang Wang

Large-scale pre-trained language models have shown impressive results on language understanding benchmarks like GLUE and SuperGLUE, improving considerably over other pre-training methods like distributed representations (GloVe) and purely…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Tanja Bunk , Daksh Varshneya , Vladimir Vlasov , Alan Nichol

Goal oriented dialogue systems have become a prominent customer-care interaction channel for most businesses. However, not all interactions are smooth, and customer intent misunderstanding is a major cause of dialogue failure. We show that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Eyal Ben-David , Boaz Carmeli , Ateret Anaby-Tavor

A key challenge of dialog systems research is to effectively and efficiently adapt to new domains. A scalable paradigm for adaptation necessitates the development of generalizable models that perform well in few-shot settings. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Shikib Mehri , Mihail Eric

We address the task of assessing discourse coherence, an aspect of text quality that is essential for many NLP tasks, such as summarization and language assessment. We propose a hierarchical neural network trained in a multi-task fashion…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-01 Youmna Farag , Helen Yannakoudakis

Coherence is an important aspect of text quality, and various approaches have been applied to coherence modeling. However, existing methods solely focus on a single document's coherence patterns, ignoring the underlying correlation between…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Wei Liu , Xiyan Fu , Michael Strube

The iterated learning model simulates the transmission of language from generation to generation in order to explore how the constraints imposed by language transmission facilitate the emergence of language structure. Despite each modelled…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Hyoyeon Lee , Seth Bullock , Conor Houghton

With the rapid development of artificial intelligence, conversational bots have became prevalent in mainstream E-commerce platforms, which can provide convenient customer service timely. To satisfy the user, the conversational bots need to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Zhenyu Zhang , Tao Guo , Meng Chen

One critical issue for chat systems is to stay consistent about preferences, opinions, beliefs and facts of itself, which has been shown a difficult problem. In this work, we study methods to assess and bolster utterance consistency of chat…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Mian Zhang , Lifeng Jin , Linfeng Song , Haitao Mi , Dong Yu

Attention-based encoder-decoder neural network models have recently shown promising results in goal-oriented dialogue systems. However, these models struggle to reason over and incorporate state-full knowledge while preserving their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Firas Kassawat , Debanjan Chaudhuri , Jens Lehmann

We model coherent conversation continuation via RNN-based dialogue models equipped with a dynamic attention mechanism. Our attention-RNN language model dynamically increases the scope of attention on the history as the conversation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-11-22 Hongyuan Mei , Mohit Bansal , Matthew R. Walter

Learning high-quality dialogue representations is essential for solving a variety of dialogue-oriented tasks, especially considering that dialogue systems often suffer from data scarcity. In this paper, we introduce Dialogue Sentence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Zhihan Zhou , Dejiao Zhang , Wei Xiao , Nicholas Dingwall , Xiaofei Ma , Andrew O. Arnold , Bing Xiang

Discovering new intents is a crucial task in dialogue systems. Most existing methods are limited in transferring the prior knowledge from known intents to new intents. They also have difficulties in providing high-quality supervised signals…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Hanlei Zhang , Hua Xu , Ting-En Lin , Rui Lyu