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Current approaches to Natural Language Generation (NLG) for dialog mainly focus on domain-specific, task-oriented applications (e.g. restaurant booking) using limited ontologies (up to 20 slot types), usually without considering the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-25 Alessandra Cervone , Chandra Khatri , Rahul Goel , Behnam Hedayatnia , Anu Venkatesh , Dilek Hakkani-Tur , Raefer Gabriel

Task-oriented dialog presents a difficult challenge encompassing multiple problems including multi-turn language understanding and generation, knowledge retrieval and reasoning, and action prediction. Modern dialog systems typically begin…

Conversational semantic parsing over tables requires knowledge acquiring and reasoning abilities, which have not been well explored by current state-of-the-art approaches. Motivated by this fact, we propose a knowledge-aware semantic parser…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Yibo Sun , Duyu Tang , Nan Duan , Jingjing Xu , Xiaocheng Feng , Bing Qin

Knowledge-enhanced text generation aims to enhance the quality of generated text by utilizing internal or external knowledge sources. While language models have demonstrated impressive capabilities in generating coherent and fluent text,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Shuqi Liu , Han Wu , Guanzhi Deng , Jianshu Chen , Xiaoyang Wang , Linqi Song

Moving from limited-domain natural language generation (NLG) to open domain is difficult because the number of semantic input combinations grows exponentially with the number of domains. Therefore, it is important to leverage existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-03-04 Tsung-Hsien Wen , Milica Gasic , Nikola Mrksic , Lina M. Rojas-Barahona , Pei-Hao Su , David Vandyke , Steve Young

Text response generation for multimodal task-oriented dialog systems, which aims to generate the proper text response given the multimodal context, is an essential yet challenging task. Although existing efforts have achieved compelling…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Xiaolin Chen , Xuemeng Song , Liqiang Jing , Shuo Li , Linmei Hu , Liqiang Nie

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown remarkable capabilities across various tasks but remain prone to hallucinations in knowledge-intensive scenarios. Knowledge Base Question Answering (KBQA) mitigates this by grounding generation in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Shuai Wang , Xixi Wang , Yinan Yu

This study explores the realm of knowledge base question answering (KBQA). KBQA is considered a challenging task, particularly in parsing intricate questions into executable logical forms. Traditional semantic parsing (SP)-based methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Guanming Xiong , Junwei Bao , Wen Zhao

We introduce a new dataset for conversational question answering over Knowledge Graphs (KGs) with verbalized answers. Question answering over KGs is currently focused on answer generation for single-turn questions (KGQA) or multiple-tun…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Endri Kacupaj , Kuldeep Singh , Maria Maleshkova , Jens Lehmann

Multi-hop Knowledge Base Question Answering(KBQA) aims to find the answer entity in a knowledge graph (KG), which requires multiple steps of reasoning. Existing retrieval-based approaches solve this task by concentrating on the specific…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Haowei Du , Quzhe Huang , Chen Li , Chen Zhang , Yang Li , Dongyan Zhao

We present a novel natural language generation system for spoken dialogue systems capable of entraining (adapting) to users' way of speaking, providing contextually appropriate responses. The generator is based on recurrent neural networks…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-18 Ondřej Dušek , Filip Jurčíček

Human conversations consist of reasonable and natural topic flows, which are observed as the shifts of the mentioned concepts across utterances. Previous chatbots that incorporate the external commonsense knowledge graph prove that modeling…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Pengda Si , Yao Qiu , Jinchao Zhang , Yujiu Yang

Despite the success of generative pre-trained language models on a series of text generation tasks, they still suffer in cases where reasoning over underlying commonsense knowledge is required during generation. Existing approaches that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-25 Haozhe Ji , Pei Ke , Shaohan Huang , Furu Wei , Xiaoyan Zhu , Minlie Huang

Document Grounded Conversations is a task to generate dialogue responses when chatting about the content of a given document. Obviously, document knowledge plays a critical role in Document Grounded Conversations, while existing dialogue…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-02 Zekang Li , Cheng Niu , Fandong Meng , Yang Feng , Qian Li , Jie Zhou

This paper presents an end-to-end neural network model, named Neural Generative Question Answering (GENQA), that can generate answers to simple factoid questions, based on the facts in a knowledge-base. More specifically, the model is built…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-04-25 Jun Yin , Xin Jiang , Zhengdong Lu , Lifeng Shang , Hang Li , Xiaoming Li

Recently several datasets have been proposed to encourage research in Question Answering domains where commonsense knowledge is expected to play an important role. Recent language models such as ROBERTA, BERT and GPT that have been…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Arindam Mitra , Pratyay Banerjee , Kuntal Kumar Pal , Swaroop Mishra , Chitta Baral

Developing an efficient retriever to retrieve knowledge from a large-scale knowledge base (KB) is critical for task-oriented dialogue systems to effectively handle localized and specialized tasks. However, widely used generative models such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Weizhou Shen , Yingqi Gao , Canbin Huang , Fanqi Wan , Xiaojun Quan , Wei Bi

Human dialogue contains evolving concepts, and speakers naturally associate multiple concepts to compose a response. However, current dialogue models with the seq2seq framework lack the ability to effectively manage concept transitions and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Yicheng Zou , Zhihua Liu , Xingwu Hu , Qi Zhang

We study the problem of imposing conversational goals/keywords on open-domain conversational agents, where the agent is required to lead the conversation to a target keyword smoothly and fast. Solving this problem enables the application of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Peixiang Zhong , Yong Liu , Hao Wang , Chunyan Miao

Knowledge graph-based dialogue generation (KG-DG) is a challenging task requiring models to effectively incorporate external knowledge into conversational responses. While large language models (LLMs) have achieved impressive results across…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Hadi Sheikhi , Chenyang Huang , Osmar R. Zaïane