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In spoken dialogue systems, we aim to deploy artificial intelligence to build automated dialogue agents that can converse with humans. Dialogue systems are increasingly being designed to move beyond just imitating conversation and also…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Atharv Singh Patlan , Shiven Tripathi , Shubham Korde

During the past decade, several areas of speech and language understanding have witnessed substantial breakthroughs from the use of data-driven models. In the area of dialogue systems, the trend is less obvious, and most practical systems…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-03-22 Iulian Vlad Serban , Ryan Lowe , Peter Henderson , Laurent Charlin , Joelle Pineau

Morality in dialogue systems has raised great attention in research recently. A moral dialogue system aligned with users' values could enhance conversation engagement and user connections. In this paper, we propose a framework, MoralDial to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Hao Sun , Zhexin Zhang , Fei Mi , Yasheng Wang , Wei Liu , Jianwei Cui , Bin Wang , Qun Liu , Minlie Huang

Establishing evaluation schemes for spoken dialogue systems is important, but it can also be challenging. While subjective evaluations are commonly used in user experiments, objective evaluations are necessary for research comparison and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Koji Inoue , Divesh Lala , Keiko Ochi , Tatsuya Kawahara , Gabriel Skantze

Dialogue systems capable of social influence such as persuasion, negotiation, and therapy, are essential for extending the use of technology to numerous realistic scenarios. However, existing research primarily focuses on either…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Kushal Chawla , Weiyan Shi , Jingwen Zhang , Gale Lucas , Zhou Yu , Jonathan Gratch

Building dialogue systems that naturally converse with humans is being an attractive and an active research domain. Multiple systems are being designed everyday and several datasets are being available. For this reason, it is being hard to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-31 Basma El Amel Boussaha , Nicolas Hernandez , Christine Jacquin , Emmanuel Morin

We aim to overcome the lack of diversity in responses of current dialogue systems and to develop a dialogue system that is engaging as a conversational partner. We propose a generator-evaluator model that evaluates multiple responses…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Ryoma Sakaeda , Daisuke Kawahara

At the heart of improving conversational AI is the open problem of how to evaluate conversations. Issues with automatic metrics are well known (Liu et al., 2016, arXiv:1603.08023), with human evaluations still considered the gold standard.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Eric Michael Smith , Orion Hsu , Rebecca Qian , Stephen Roller , Y-Lan Boureau , Jason Weston

Many dialogue systems (DSs) lack characteristics humans have, such as emotion perception, factuality, and informativeness. Enhancing DSs with knowledge alleviates this problem, but, as many ways of doing so exist, keeping track of all…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Sagi Shaier , Lawrence Hunter , Katharina Kann

Conversational recommender systems aim to interactively support online users in their information search and decision-making processes in an intuitive way. With the latest advances in voice-controlled devices, natural language processing,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Dietmar Jannach

Automation of dialogue system evaluation is a driving force for the efficient development of dialogue systems. This paper introduces the bipartite-play method, a dialogue collection method for automating dialogue system evaluation. It…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Shiki Sato , Yosuke Kishinami , Hiroaki Sugiyama , Reina Akama , Ryoko Tokuhisa , Jun Suzuki

Human evaluation has been widely accepted as the standard for evaluating chat-oriented dialogue systems. However, there is a significant variation in previous work regarding who gets recruited as evaluators. Evaluator groups such as domain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Sarah E. Finch , James D. Finch , Jinho D. Choi

There is a growing interest in developing goal-oriented dialog systems which serve users in accomplishing complex tasks through multi-turn conversations. Although many methods are devised to evaluate and improve the performance of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-18 Ryuichi Takanobu , Qi Zhu , Jinchao Li , Baolin Peng , Jianfeng Gao , Minlie Huang

Dialogue-based human-AI collaboration can revolutionize collaborative problem-solving, creative exploration, and social support. To realize this goal, the development of automated agents proficient in skills such as negotiating, following…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Amogh Mannekote

Sharing ideas through communication with peers is the primary mode of human interaction. Consequently, extensive research has been conducted in the area of conversational AI, leading to an increase in the availability and diversity of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Shivani Kumar , Sumit Bhatia , Milan Aggarwal , Tanmoy Chakraborty

This paper proposes to refer to the field of software engineering related to the life cycle of dialogue systems as Dialogue Systems Engineering, and surveys this field while also discussing its future directions. With the advancement of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Mikio Nakano , Hironori Takeuchi , Sadahiro Yoshikawa , Yoichi Matsuyama , Kazunori Komatani

Recent advancements in conversational systems have significantly enhanced human-machine interactions across various domains. However, training these systems is challenging due to the scarcity of specialized dialogue data. Traditionally,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Heydar Soudani , Roxana Petcu , Evangelos Kanoulas , Faegheh Hasibi

Evaluating the conversational abilities of large language models (LLMs) remains a challenging task. Current mainstream approaches primarily rely on the "LLM-as-a-judge" paradigm, where an LLM is prompted to serve as an evaluator to assess…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Yuqi Tang , Kehua Feng , Yunfeng Wang , Zhiwen Chen , Chengfei Lv , Gang Yu , Qiang Zhang , Keyan Ding , Huajun Chen

The development of Open-Domain Dialogue Systems (ODS)is a trending topic due to the large number of research challenges, large societal and business impact, and advances in the underlying technology. However, the development of these kinds…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Chen Zhang , João Sedoc , Luis Fernando D'Haro , Rafael Banchs , Alexander Rudnicky

Building dialogues systems interaction has recently gained considerable attention, but most of the resources and systems built so far are tailored to English and other Indo-European languages. The need for designing systems for other…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-05-13 AbdelRahim A. Elmadany , Sherif M. Abdou , Mervat Gheith