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Event logs, as viewed in process mining, contain event data describing the execution of operational processes. Most process mining techniques take an event log as input and generate insights about the underlying process by analyzing the…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Daniel Schuster , Michael Martini , Sebastiaan J. van Zelst , Wil M. P. van der Aalst

Tailoring persuasive conversations to users leads to more effective persuasion. However, existing dialogue systems often struggle to adapt to dynamically evolving user states. This paper presents a novel method that leverages causal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Donghuo Zeng , Roberto Legaspi , Yuewen Sun , Xinshuai Dong , Kazushi Ikeda , Peter Spirtes , Kun Zhang

While recently developed NLP explainability methods let us open the black box in various ways (Madsen et al., 2022), a missing ingredient in this endeavor is an interactive tool offering a conversational interface. Such a dialogue system…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Nils Feldhus , Qianli Wang , Tatiana Anikina , Sahil Chopra , Cennet Oguz , Sebastian Möller

Conversation has been a primary means for the exchange of information since ancient times. Understanding patterns of information flow in conversations is a critical step in assessing and improving communication quality. In this paper, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Laurence A. Clarfeld , Robert Gramling , Donna M. Rizzo , Margaret J. Eppstein

Conversational search enables multi-turn interactions between users and systems to fulfill users' complex information needs. During this interaction, the system should understand the users' search intent within the conversational context…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Fengran Mo , Chuan Meng , Mohammad Aliannejadi , Jian-Yun Nie

Understanding the movement behaviours of individuals and the way they react to the external world is a key component of any problem that involves the modelling of human dynamics at a physical level. In particular, it is crucial to capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Gabriele Galatolo , Mirco Nanni

Recommender systems are software applications that help users find items of interest in situations of information overload in a personalized way, using knowledge about the needs and preferences of individual users. In conversational…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-02-10 Tommaso Di Noia , Francesco Donini , Dietmar Jannach , Fedelucio Narducci , Claudio Pomo

Efficient patient-doctor interaction is among the key factors for a successful disease diagnosis. During the conversation, the doctor could query complementary diagnostic information, such as the patient's symptoms, previous surgery, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Xueshen Li , Xinlong Hou , Nirupama Ravi , Ziyi Huang , Yu Gan

Since their recent introduction, process trees have been frequently used as a process modeling formalism in many process mining algorithms. A process tree is a tree-based model of a process, in which internal vertices represent behavioral…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Sebastiaan J. van Zelst

In this paper we describe a method to discover frequent behavioral patterns in event logs. We express these patterns as \emph{local process models}. Local process model mining can be positioned in-between process discovery and episode /…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-05-17 Niek Tax , Natalia Sidorova , Reinder Haakma , Wil M. P. van der Aalst

Nowadays, open-domain dialogue models can generate acceptable responses according to the historical context based on the large-scale pre-trained language models. However, they generally concatenate the dialogue history directly as the model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Zekang Li , Jinchao Zhang , Zhengcong Fei , Yang Feng , Jie Zhou

In recent years, large pretrained models have been used in dialogue systems to improve successful task completion rates. However, lack of reasoning capabilities of dialogue platforms make it difficult to provide relevant and fluent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-10 Sajjad Beygi , Maryam Fazel-Zarandi , Alessandra Cervone , Prakash Krishnan , Siddhartha Reddy Jonnalagadda

Neural Conversational QA tasks like ShARC require systems to answer questions based on the contents of a given passage. On studying recent state-of-the-art models on the ShARCQA task, we found indications that the models learn spurious…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Nikhil Verma , Abhishek Sharma , Dhiraj Madan , Danish Contractor , Harshit Kumar , Sachindra Joshi

The discipline of process mining deals with analyzing execution data of operational processes, extracting models from event data, checking the conformance between event data and normative models, and enhancing all aspects of processes.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Marco Pegoraro , Merih Seran Uysal , Wil M. P. van der Aalst

Context: Change mining enables organizations to understand the changes that occurred in their business processes. This allows them to enhance their business processes and adapt to dynamic environments. Therefore, change mining is becoming a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Arash Yadegari Ghahderijani , Hande Naz Turgay , Dimka Karastoyanova

As one promising way to inquire about any particular information through a dialog with the bot, question answering dialog systems have gained increasing research interests recently. Designing interactive QA systems has always been a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Munazza Zaib , Dai Hoang Tran , Subhash Sagar , Adnan Mahmood , Wei E. Zhang , Quan Z. Sheng

As most users do not precisely know the structure and/or the content of databases, their queries do not exactly reflect their information needs. The database management systems (DBMS) may interact with users and use their feedback on the…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Ben McCamish , Vahid Ghadakchi , Arash Termehchy , Behrouz Touri

Task-oriented dialogue systems have become overwhelmingly popular in recent researches. Dialogue understanding is widely used to comprehend users' intent, emotion and dialogue state in task-oriented dialogue systems. Most previous works on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Nan Su , Yuchi Zhang , Chao Liu , Bingzhu Du , Yongliang Wang

Social media and social networks have already woven themselves into the very fabric of everyday life. This results in a dramatic increase of social data capturing various relations between the users and their associated artifacts, both in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Martin Atzmueller

Matching question-answer relations between two turns in conversations is not only the first step in analyzing dialogue structures, but also valuable for training dialogue systems. This paper presents a QA matching model considering both…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Qi Jia , Mengxue Zhang , Shengyao Zhang , Kenny Q. Zhu
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