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Personalized dialogue systems are an essential step toward better human-machine interaction. Existing personalized dialogue agents rely on properly designed conversational datasets, which are mostly monolingual (e.g., English), which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-09 Zhaojiang Lin , Zihan Liu , Genta Indra Winata , Samuel Cahyawijaya , Andrea Madotto , Yejin Bang , Etsuko Ishii , Pascale Fung

Incorporating personas information allows diverse and engaging responses in dialogue response generation. Unfortunately, prior works have primarily focused on self personas and have overlooked the value of partner personas. Moreover, in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Hongyuan Lu , Wai Lam , Hong Cheng , Helen M. Meng

Existing multi-turn context-response matching methods mainly concentrate on obtaining multi-level and multi-dimension representations and better interactions between context utterances and response. However, in real-place conversation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Juntao Li , Chang Liu , Chongyang Tao , Zhangming Chan , Dongyan Zhao , Min Zhang , Rui Yan

Personalized chatbots focus on endowing chatbots with a consistent personality to behave like real users, give more informative responses, and further act as personal assistants. Existing personalized approaches tried to incorporate several…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Zhengyi Ma , Zhicheng Dou , Yutao Zhu , Hanxun Zhong , Ji-Rong Wen

Current conversational AI systems often provide generic, one-size-fits-all interactions that overlook individual user characteristics and lack adaptive dialogue management. To address this gap, we introduce \textbf{HumAIne-chatbot}, an…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Georgios Makridis , George Fragiadakis , Jorge Oliveira , Tomaz Saraiva , Philip Mavrepis , Georgios Fatouros , Dimosthenis Kyriazis

Current dialogue systems are not very engaging for users, especially when trained end-to-end without relying on proactive reengaging scripted strategies. Zhang et al. (2018) showed that the engagement level of end-to-end dialogue models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-07 Pierre-Emmanuel Mazaré , Samuel Humeau , Martin Raison , Antoine Bordes

Empathetic conversational models have been shown to improve user satisfaction and task outcomes in numerous domains. In Psychology, persona has been shown to be highly correlated to personality, which in turn influences empathy. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Peixiang Zhong , Chen Zhang , Hao Wang , Yong Liu , Chunyan Miao

This paper introduces a simple yet effective data-centric approach for the task of improving persona-conditioned dialogue agents. Prior model-centric approaches unquestioningly depend on the raw crowdsourced benchmark datasets such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Minju Kim , Beong-woo Kwak , Youngwook Kim , Hong-in Lee , Seung-won Hwang , Jinyoung Yeo

Humans often refer to personal narratives, life experiences, and events to make a conversation more engaging and rich. While persona-grounded dialog models are able to generate responses that follow a given persona, they often miss out on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Bodhisattwa Prasad Majumder , Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick , Julian McAuley , Harsh Jhamtani

Endowing chatbots with a consistent persona is essential to an engaging conversation, yet it remains an unresolved challenge. In this work, we propose a new retrieval-enhanced approach for personalized response generation. Specifically, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Shuai Liu , Hyundong J. Cho , Marjorie Freedman , Xuezhe Ma , Jonathan May

End-to-end dialogue generation has achieved promising results without using handcrafted features and attributes specific for each task and corpus. However, one of the fatal drawbacks in such approaches is that they are unable to generate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Hao-Tong Ye , Kai-Ling Lo , Shang-Yu Su , Yun-Nung Chen

A conversational agent (chatbot) is a piece of software that is able to communicate with humans using natural language. Modeling conversation is an important task in natural language processing and artificial intelligence. While chatbots…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-26 Richard Csaky

Conversational agents are increasingly expected to adapt across contexts and evolve their personalities through interactions, yet most remain static once configured. We present an exploratory study of how user expectations form and evolve…

Personalized response selection systems are generally grounded on persona. However, there exists a co-relation between persona and empathy, which is not explored well in these systems. Also, faithfulness to the conversation context plunges…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-01 Souvik Das , Sougata Saha , Rohini K. Srihari

Large Language Models face significant challenges in maintaining coherent interactions over extended dialogues due to their limited contextual memory. This limitation often leads to fragmented exchanges and reduced relevance in responses,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Haseeb Ullah Khan Shinwari , Muhammad Usama

Dialogue systems in the form of chatbots and personal assistants are being increasingly integrated into people's lives. Modern dialogue systems may consider adopting anthropomorphic personas, mimicking societal demographic groups to appear…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Emily Sheng , Josh Arnold , Zhou Yu , Kai-Wei Chang , Nanyun Peng

Recent advances in machine learning and deep learning have led to the widespread use of Conversational AI in many practical applications. However, it is still very challenging to leverage auxiliary information that can provide…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Junfeng Liu , Christopher Symons , Ranga Raju Vatsavai

Endowing a chatbot with personality or an identity is quite challenging but critical to deliver more realistic and natural conversations. In this paper, we address the issue of generating responses that are coherent to a pre-specified agent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-06-22 Qiao Qian , Minlie Huang , Haizhou Zhao , Jingfang Xu , Xiaoyan Zhu

The majority of conversations a dialogue agent sees over its lifetime occur after it has already been trained and deployed, leaving a vast store of potential training signal untapped. In this work, we propose the self-feeding chatbot, a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-14 Braden Hancock , Antoine Bordes , Pierre-Emmanuel Mazaré , Jason Weston

Accurately simulating the decisions of a specific individual remains challenging for large language models (LLMs), partly because persona information is often provided as static descriptions that miss the values, experiences, and contextual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Ruoxi Su , Yuhan Liu , Jingyu Hu