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The Transformer is a highly successful deep learning model that has revolutionised the world of artificial neural networks, first in natural language processing and later in computer vision. This model is based on the attention mechanism…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Riccardo Ughi , Eugenio Lomurno , Matteo Matteucci

While many production-ready and robust algorithms are available for the task of recommendation systems, many of these systems do not take the order of user's consumption into account. The order of consumption can be very useful and matters…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Mehdi Soleiman Nejad , Meysam Varasteh , Hadi Moradi , Mohammad Amin Sadeghi

Semantic parsing using sequence-to-sequence models allows parsing of deeper representations compared to traditional word tagging based models. In spite of these advantages, widespread adoption of these models for real-time conversational…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Arun Babu , Akshat Shrivastava , Armen Aghajanyan , Ahmed Aly , Angela Fan , Marjan Ghazvininejad

Deep learning models with attention mechanisms have achieved exceptional results for many tasks, including language tasks and recommendation systems. Whereas previous studies have emphasized allocation of phone agents, we focused on inbound…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Ta-Chun Su , Guan-Ying Chen

Sequence-to-Sequence (Seq2Seq) models have witnessed a notable success in generating natural conversational exchanges. Notwithstanding the syntactically well-formed responses generated by these neural network models, they are prone to be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Nouha Dziri , Ehsan Kamalloo , Kory W. Mathewson , Osmar Zaiane

In a typical customer service chat scenario, customers contact a support center to ask for help or raise complaints, and human agents try to solve the issues. In most cases, at the end of the conversation, agents are asked to write a short…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Guy Feigenblat , Chulaka Gunasekara , Benjamin Sznajder , Sachindra Joshi , David Konopnicki , Ranit Aharonov

The Transformer translation model is easier to parallelize and provides better performance compared to recurrent seq2seq models, which makes it popular among industry and research community. We implement the Neutron in this work, including…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-23 Hongfei Xu , Qiuhui Liu

Expressing in language is subjective. Everyone has a different style of reading and writing, apparently it all boil downs to the way their mind understands things (in a specific format). Language style transfer is a way to preserve the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-12 Ayush Singh , Ritu Palod

Recently, open domain multi-turn chatbots have attracted much interest from lots of researchers in both academia and industry. The dominant retrieval-based methods use context-response matching mechanisms for multi-turn response selection.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Chao Xiong , Che Liu , Zijun Xu , Junfeng Jiang , Jieping Ye

Conversational Information Seeking has evolved rapidly in the last few years with the development of Large Language Models providing the basis for interpreting and responding in a naturalistic manner to user requests. iKAT emphasizes the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Mohammad Aliannejadi , Zahra Abbasiantaeb , Shubham Chatterjee , Jeffery Dalton , Leif Azzopardi

Attention-based models have been gaining popularity recently for their strong performance demonstrated in fields such as machine translation and automatic speech recognition. One major challenge of attention-based models is the need of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Ching-Feng Yeh , Yongqiang Wang , Yangyang Shi , Chunyang Wu , Frank Zhang , Julian Chan , Michael L. Seltzer

Transformer-based acoustic modeling has achieved great suc-cess for both hybrid and sequence-to-sequence speech recogni-tion. However, it requires access to the full sequence, and thecomputational cost grows quadratically with respect to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-19 Chunyang Wu , Yongqiang Wang , Yangyang Shi , Ching-Feng Yeh , Frank Zhang

Following complex instructions in conversational assistants can be quite daunting due to the shorter attention and memory spans when compared to reading the same instructions. Hence, when conversational assistants walk users through the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Rafael Ferreira , David Semedo , João Magalhães

With the rapid development of Natural Language Processing (NLP) technology, the accuracy and efficiency of machine translation have become hot topics of research. This paper proposes a novel Seq2Seq model aimed at improving translation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Yuxu Wu , Yiren Xing

Sequence-to-sequence (Seq2Seq) models with attention have excelled at tasks which involve generating natural language sentences such as machine translation, image captioning and speech recognition. Performance has further been improved by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-23 Anuroop Sriram , Heewoo Jun , Sanjeev Satheesh , Adam Coates

This paper presents a novel fusion method for integrating an external language model (LM) into the Transformer based sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) model. While paired data are basically required to train the seq2seq model, the external LM…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-30 Mana Ihori , Ryo Masumura , Naoki Makishima , Tomohiro Tanaka , Akihiko Takashima , Shota Orihashi

In online domain-specific customer service applications, many companies struggle to deploy advanced NLP models successfully, due to the limited availability of and noise in their datasets. While prior research demonstrated the potential of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Amir Hadifar , Sofie Labat , Véronique Hoste , Chris Develder , Thomas Demeester

Conversational agents have traditionally been developed for either task-oriented dialogue (TOD) or open-ended chitchat, with limited progress in unifying the two. Yet, real-world conversations naturally involve fluid transitions between…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Yejin Yoon , Yuri Son , Namyoung So , Minseo Kim , Minsoo Cho , Chanhee Park , Seungshin Lee , Taeuk Kim

In recent research on dialogue systems and corpora, there has been a significant focus on two distinct categories: task-oriented (TOD) and open-domain (chit-chat) dialogues. TOD systems aim to satisfy specific user goals, such as finding a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Wen-Yu Chang , Yun-Nung Chen

Chatbots and AI assistants have claimed their importance in today life. The main reason behind adopting this technology is to connect with the user, understand their requirements, and fulfill them. This has been achieved but at the cost of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Muhammad Hamzah Mushtaq