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Conversational shopping agents represent a critical consumer-facing application of Large Language Model (LLM)-powered agents, yet how to effectively apply post-training Reinforcement Learning (RL) to optimize such agents remains…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Yiruo Cheng , Kelong Mao , Tianhao Li , Jiejun Tan , Ji-Rong Wen , Zhicheng Dou

Review score prediction requires review text understanding, a critical real-world application of natural language processing. Due to dissimilar text domains in product reviews, a common practice is fine-tuning BERT models upon reviews of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Albert Lu , Meng Jiang

Multi-modal retrieval is an important problem for many applications, such as recommendation and search. Current benchmarks and even datasets are often manually constructed and consist of mostly clean samples where all modalities are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Laura Hanu , James Thewlis , Yuki M. Asano , Christian Rupprecht

Multi-party dialogue machine reading comprehension (MRC) brings tremendous challenge since it involves multiple speakers at one dialogue, resulting in intricate speaker information flows and noisy dialogue contexts. To alleviate such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Yiyang Li , Hai Zhao

Question answering (QA) is an important use case on voice assistants. A popular approach to QA is extractive reading comprehension (RC) which finds an answer span in a text passage. However, extractive answers are often unnatural in a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Stan Peshterliev , Barlas Oguz , Debojeet Chatterjee , Hakan Inan , Vikas Bhardwaj

Conversational Recommender Systems (CRSs) in E-commerce platforms aim to recommend items to users via multiple conversational interactions. Click-through rate (CTR) prediction models are commonly used for ranking candidate items. However,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Chi-Man Wong , Fan Feng , Wen Zhang , Chi-Man Vong , Hui Chen , Yichi Zhang , Peng He , Huan Chen , Kun Zhao , Huajun Chen

Machine Reading Comprehension (MRC) is the task of answering a question over a paragraph of text. While neural MRC systems gain popularity and achieve noticeable performance, issues are being raised with the methodology used to establish…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-11 Viktor Schlegel , Marco Valentino , André Freitas , Goran Nenadic , Riza Batista-Navarro

With the growth of the academic engines, the mining and analysis acquisition of massive researcher data, such as collaborator recommendation and researcher retrieval, has become indispensable. It can improve the quality of services and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Ziyue Qiao , Yanjie Fu , Pengyang Wang , Meng Xiao , Zhiyuan Ning , Denghui Zhang , Yi Du , Yuanchun Zhou

Many tasks aim to measure machine reading comprehension (MRC), often focusing on question types presumed to be difficult. Rarely, however, do task designers start by considering what systems should in fact comprehend. In this paper we make…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Jesse Dunietz , Gregory Burnham , Akash Bharadwaj , Owen Rambow , Jennifer Chu-Carroll , David Ferrucci

Conversational context understanding aims to recognize the real intention of user from the conversation history, which is critical for building the dialogue system. However, the multi-turn conversation understanding in open domain is still…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Shuangyong Song , Chao Wang , Qianqian Xie , Xinxing Zu , Huan Chen , Haiqing Chen

We propose InsightNet, a novel approach for the automated extraction of structured insights from customer reviews. Our end-to-end machine learning framework is designed to overcome the limitations of current solutions, including the absence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Sandeep Sricharan Mukku , Manan Soni , Jitenkumar Rana , Chetan Aggarwal , Promod Yenigalla , Rashmi Patange , Shyam Mohan

Background: Modern Code Review (MCR) is a key component for delivering high-quality software and sharing knowledge among developers. Effective reviews require an in-depth understanding of the code and demand from the reviewers to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Michael Unterkalmsteiner , Deepika Badampudi , Ricardo Britto , Nauman bin Ali

Review comments play an important role in the evolution of documents. For a large document, the number of review comments may become large, making it difficult for the authors to quickly grasp what the comments are about. It is important to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Gautam Choudhary , Natwar Modani , Nitish Maurya

In this paper, we present a systematic effort to design, evaluate, and implement a realistic conversational recommender system (CRS). The objective of our system is to allow users to input free-form text to request recommendations, and then…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Se-eun Yoon , Xiaokai Wei , Yexi Jiang , Rachit Pareek , Frank Ong , Kevin Gao , Julian McAuley , Michelle Gong

Growing attention has been paid in Conversational Recommendation System (CRS), which works as a conversation-based and recommendation task-oriented tool to provide items of interest and explore user preference. However, existing work in CRS…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Bingbing Wen , Xiaoning Bu , Chirag Shah

State-of-the-art conversational agents have advanced significantly in conjunction with the use of large transformer-based language models. However, even with these advancements, conversational agents still lack the ability to produce…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Sashank Santhanam , Wei Ping , Raul Puri , Mohammad Shoeybi , Mostofa Patwary , Bryan Catanzaro

Pretrained language models such as BERT, GPT have shown great effectiveness in language understanding. The auxiliary predictive tasks in existing pretraining approaches are mostly defined on tokens, thus may not be able to capture…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-19 Hongchao Fang , Sicheng Wang , Meng Zhou , Jiayuan Ding , Pengtao Xie

Conversational recommender systems (CRSs) enhance recommendation quality by engaging users in multi-turn dialogues, capturing nuanced preferences through natural language interactions. However, these systems often face the false negative…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Haozhe Xu , Xiaohua Wang , Changze Lv , Xiaoqing Zheng

Performance of NLP systems is typically evaluated by collecting a large-scale dataset by means of crowd-sourcing to train a data-driven model and evaluate it on a held-out portion of the data. This approach has been shown to suffer from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Viktor Schlegel , Goran Nenadic , Riza Batista-Navarro

Customer support via chat requires agents to resolve customer queries with minimum wait time and maximum customer satisfaction. Given that the agents as well as the customers can have varying levels of literacy, the overall quality of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Sonal Garg , Sumanth Prabhu , Hemant Misra , G. Srinivasaraghavan