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The complex nature of intelligent systems motivates work on supporting users during interaction, for example through explanations. However, as of yet, there is little empirical evidence in regard to specific problems users face when…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-02-05 Malin Eiband , Sarah Theres Völkel , Daniel Buschek , Sophia Cook , Heinrich Hussmann

Customer service is how companies interface with their customers. It can contribute heavily towards the overall customer satisfaction. However, high-quality service can become expensive, creating an incentive to make it as cost efficient as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Scott Rome , Tianwen Chen , Raphael Tang , Luwei Zhou , Ferhan Ture

Open-domain dialogue systems aim to generate natural and engaging conversations, providing significant practical value in real applications such as social robotics and personal assistants. The advent of large language models (LLMs) has…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Yufeng Wang , Jinwu Hu , Ziteng Huang , Kunyang Lin , Zitian Zhang , Peihao Chen , Yu Hu , Qianyue Wang , Zhuliang Yu , Bin Sun , Xiaofen Xing , Qingfang Zheng , Mingkui Tan

Conversational systems based on Large Language Models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, show exceptional proficiency in context understanding and response generation. However, despite their impressive capabilities, they still possess limitations,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Yang Deng , Lizi Liao , Liang Chen , Hongru Wang , Wenqiang Lei , Tat-Seng Chua

To improve the reasoning and question-answering capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs), several multi-agent approaches have been introduced. While these methods enhance performance, the application of collective intelligence-based…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Ciaran Regan , Alexandre Gournail , Mizuki Oka

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated their significant potential to be applied for addressing various application tasks. However, traditional recommender systems continue to face great challenges such as poor interactivity and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Yunfan Gao , Tao Sheng , Youlin Xiang , Yun Xiong , Haofen Wang , Jiawei Zhang

The evolution of large language models (LLMs) has enhanced the planning capabilities of language agents in diverse real-world scenarios. Despite these advancements, the potential of LLM-powered agents to comprehend ambiguous user…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Xuan Zhang , Yang Deng , Zifeng Ren , See-Kiong Ng , Tat-Seng Chua

In order to bring artificial agents into our lives, we will need to go beyond supervised learning on closed datasets to having the ability to continuously expand knowledge. Inspired by a student learning in a classroom, we present an agent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-22 Kevin Shen , Amlan Kar , Sanja Fidler

Customer service is a setting that calls for empathy in live human agent responses. Recent advances have demonstrated how open-domain chatbots can be trained to demonstrate empathy when responding to live human utterances. We show that a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-06 Akshay Agarwal , Shashank Maiya , Sonu Aggarwal

Collaborative problem-solving under time pressure is common but difficult, as teams must generate ideas quickly, coordinate actions, and track progress. Generative AI offers new opportunities to assist, but we know little about how…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Anirban Mukhopadhyay , Kevin Salubre , Hifza Javed , Shashank Mehrotra , Kumar Akash

To hold a true conversation, an intelligent agent should be able to occasionally take initiative and recommend the next natural conversation topic. This is a challenging task. A topic suggested by the agent should be relevant to the person,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-29 Ali Ahmadvand , Harshita Sahijwani , Eugene Agichtein

In this paper, we present Smart Compose, a novel system for generating interactive, real-time suggestions in Gmail that assists users in writing mails by reducing repetitive typing. In the design and deployment of such a large-scale and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Mia Xu Chen , Benjamin N Lee , Gagan Bansal , Yuan Cao , Shuyuan Zhang , Justin Lu , Jackie Tsay , Yinan Wang , Andrew M. Dai , Zhifeng Chen , Timothy Sohn , Yonghui Wu

Efficient and appropriate online customer service is essential to large e-commerce businesses. Existing solution recommendation methods for online customer service are unable to determine the best solutions at runtime, leading to poor…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Min Fu , Jiwei Guan , Xi Zheng , Jie Zhou , Jianchao Lu , Tianyi Zhang , Shoujie Zhuo , Lijun Zhan , Jian Yang

An Intelligent Personal Agent (IPA) is an agent that has the purpose of helping the user to gain information through reliable resources with the help of knowledge navigation techniques and saving time to search the best content. The agent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-05-01 Amit Kumar , Rahul Dutta , Harbhajan Rai

This paper presents a Multi-Agent approach to the problem of recommending training courses to engineering professionals. The recommendation system is built as a proof of concept and limited to the electrical and mechanical engineering…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Vukosi N. Marivate , George Ssali , Tshilidzi Marwala

Goal-oriented conversational agents are becoming prevalent in our daily lives. For these systems to engage users and achieve their goals, they need to exhibit appropriate social behavior as well as provide informative replies that guide…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Yi-Chia Wang , Alexandros Papangelis , Runze Wang , Zhaleh Feizollahi , Gokhan Tur , Robert Kraut

Due to strong capabilities in conducting fluent, multi-turn conversations with users, Large Language Models (LLMs) have the potential to further improve the performance of Conversational Recommender System (CRS). Unlike the aimless…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Jiabao Fang , Shen Gao , Pengjie Ren , Xiuying Chen , Suzan Verberne , Zhaochun Ren

In recommender systems, online A/B testing is a crucial method for evaluating the performance of different models. However, conducting online A/B testing often presents significant challenges, including substantial economic costs, user…

Systems powered by artificial intelligence are being developed to be more user-friendly by communicating with users in a progressively human-like conversational way. Chatbots, also known as dialogue systems, interactive conversational…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-01-03 Kennedy Ralston , Yuhao Chen , Haruna Isah , Farhana Zulkernine

Conversational recommender systems offer the promise of interactive, engaging ways for users to find items they enjoy. We seek to improve conversational recommendation via three dimensions: 1) We aim to mimic a common mode of human…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Shuyang Li , Bodhisattwa Prasad Majumder , Julian McAuley