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Conversational recommender systems (CRS) have advanced with large language models, showing strong results in domains like movies. These domains typically involve fixed content and passive consumption, where user preferences can be matched…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Zheng Hui , Xiaokai Wei , Yexi Jiang , Kevin Gao , Chen Wang , Frank Ong , Se-eun Yoon , Rachit Pareek , Michelle Gong

Traditional assessment methods collapse when students use generative AI to complete work without genuine engagement, creating an illusion of competence where they believe they're learning but aren't. This paper presents the conversational…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Lorena A. Barba , Laura Stegner

Recently, large language models have facilitated the emergence of highly intelligent conversational AI capable of engaging in human-like dialogues. However, a notable distinction lies in the fact that these AI models predominantly generate…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Jijie Zhou , Yuhan Hu

The language generation and reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) have enabled conversational systems with impressive performance in a variety of tasks, from code generation, to composing essays, to passing STEM and legal…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Konstantina Christakopoulou , Iris Qu , John Canny , Andrew Goodridge , Cj Adams , Minmin Chen , Maja Matarić

Agents are small programs that autonomously take actions based on changes in their environment or ``state.'' Over the last few years, there have been an increasing number of efforts to build agents that can interact and/or collaborate with…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Juergen Dix , Mirco Nanni , VS Subrahmanian

Software testing remains critical for ensuring reliability, yet traditional approaches are slow, costly, and prone to gaps in coverage. This paper presents an AI-driven framework that automates test case generation and validation using…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Saba Naqvi , Mohammad Baqar

Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success across a wide array of tasks. Due to the impressive planning and reasoning abilities of LLMs, they have been used as autonomous agents to do many tasks automatically. Recently,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Taicheng Guo , Xiuying Chen , Yaqi Wang , Ruidi Chang , Shichao Pei , Nitesh V. Chawla , Olaf Wiest , Xiangliang Zhang

Training dialog policies for speech-based virtual assistants requires a plethora of conversational data. The data collection phase is often expensive and time consuming due to human involvement. To address this issue, a common solution is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Maryam Fazel-Zarandi , Longshaokan Wang , Aditya Tiwari , Spyros Matsoukas

As language agents increasingly automate critical tasks, their ability to follow domain-specific standard operating procedures (SOPs), policies, and constraints when taking actions and making tool calls becomes essential yet remains…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Zekun Li , Shinda Huang , Jiangtian Wang , Nathan Zhang , Antonis Antoniades , Wenyue Hua , Kaijie Zhu , Sirui Zeng , Chi Wang , William Yang Wang , Xifeng Yan

Evaluating large language models (LLMs) has recently emerged as a critical issue for safe and trustworthy application of LLMs in the medical domain. Although a variety of static medical question-answering (QA) benchmarks have been proposed,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Gyutaek Oh , Sangjoon Park , Byung-Hoon Kim

Spoken conversational agents are converging toward voice-native LLMs. This tutorial distills the path from cascaded ASR/NLU to end-to-end, retrieval-and vision-grounded systems. We frame adaptation of text LLMs to audio, cross-modal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Chao-Han Huck Yang , Andreas Stolcke , Larry Heck

Conversational artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming an increasingly popular topic among industry and academia. With the fast development of neural network-based models, a lot of neural-based conversational AI system are developed. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Zijun Xue , Ruirui Li , Mingda Li

Proof engineering is notoriously labor-intensive: proofs that are straightforward on paper often require lengthy scripts in theorem provers. Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) create new opportunities for proof automation:…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Yichen Xu , Martin Odersky

In this paper, we extended the method proposed in [21] to enable humans to interact naturally with autonomous agents through vocal and textual conversations. Our extended method exploits the inherent capabilities of pre-trained large…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Linus Nwankwo , Elmar Rueckert

When developing a conversational agent, there is often an urgent need to have a prototype available in order to test the application with real users. A Wizard of Oz is a possibility, but sometimes the agent should be simply deployed in the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2013-02-07 Catarina Moreira , Ana Cristina Mendes , Luísa Coheur , Bruno Martins

We present an automated evaluation method to measure fluidity in conversational dialogue systems. The method combines various state of the art Natural Language tools into a classifier, and human ratings on these dialogues to train an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-28 Keith Vella , Massimo Poesio , Michael Sigamani , Cihan Dogan , Aimore Dutra , Dimitrios Dimakopoulos , Alfredo Gemma , Ella Walters

This paper reports on progress towards building an online language learning tool to provide learners with conversational experience by using dialog systems as conversation practice partners. Our system can adapt to users' language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Yu Li , Chun-Yen Chen , Dian Yu , Sam Davidson , Ryan Hou , Xun Yuan , Yinghua Tan , Derek Pham , Zhou Yu

Writing persuasive arguments is a challenging task for both humans and machines. It entails incorporating high-level beliefs from various perspectives on the topic, along with deliberate reasoning and planning to construct a coherent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Zhe Hu , Hou Pong Chan , Jing Li , Yu Yin

Structured interviews are used in many settings, importantly in market research on topics such as brand perception, customer habits, or preferences, which are critical to product development, marketing, and e-commerce at large. Such…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Harshita Sahijwani , Kaustubh Dhole , Ankur Purwar , Venugopal Vasudevan , Eugene Agichtein

How can we enable users to heavily specify criteria for database queries in a user-friendly way? This paper describes a general framework of a conversational bot that extracts meaningful information from user's sentences, that asks…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-30 Isak Czeresnia Etinger