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As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes a prominent part of modern life, AI literacy is becoming important for all citizens, not just those in technology careers. Previous research in AI education materials has largely focused on the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Kate Pearce , Sharifa Alghowinem , Cynthia Breazeal

Large Language Models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in open-domain dialogues. However, current methods exhibit suboptimal performance in service dialogues, as they rely on noisy, low-quality human conversation data. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Yuqin Dai , Ning Gao , Wei Zhang , Jie Wang , Zichen Luo , Jinpeng Wang , Yujie Wang , Ruiyuan Wu , Chaozheng Wang

We present a low-compute non-generative system for implementing interview-style conversational agents which can be used to facilitate qualitative data collection through controlled interactions and quantitative analysis. Use cases include…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Charles Welch , Allison Lahnala , Vasudha Varadarajan , Lucie Flek , Rada Mihalcea , J. Lomax Boyd , João Sedoc

While interest in conversational recommender systems has been on the rise, operational systems suitable for serving as research platforms for comprehensive studies are currently lacking. This paper introduces an enhanced version of the IAI…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Nolwenn Bernard , Ivica Kostric , Krisztian Balog

We describe an architecture for spoken dialogue interfaces to semi-autonomous systems that transforms speech signals through successive representations of linguistic, dialogue, and domain knowledge. Each step produces an output, and a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Manny Rayner , Beth Ann Hockey , Frankie James

We create a new task-oriented dialog platform (MEEP) where agents are given considerable freedom in terms of utterances and API calls, but are constrained to work within a push-button environment. We include facilities for collecting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Arkady Arkhangorodsky , Amittai Axelrod , Christopher Chu , Scot Fang , Yiqi Huang , Ajay Nagesh , Xing Shi , Boliang Zhang , Kevin Knight

We introduce a pair of tools, Rasa NLU and Rasa Core, which are open source python libraries for building conversational software. Their purpose is to make machine-learning based dialogue management and language understanding accessible to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-12-18 Tom Bocklisch , Joey Faulkner , Nick Pawlowski , Alan Nichol

Conversational AI systems are becoming famous in day to day lives. In this paper, we are trying to address the following key question: To identify whether design, as well as development efforts for search oriented conversational AI are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-09-15 Mahipal Jadeja , Neelanshi Varia

In this paper, the new information system development methodology will be proposed. This methodology will enable the whole data model to be built and adjusted at the run time, without rebuilding the application. This will make the user much…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2011-02-01 Vojtech Prehnal

The Polkadot ecosystem is a disruptive and highly complex multi-chain architecture that poses challenges in terms of data analysis and communicability. Currently, there is a lack of standardized and holistic approaches to retrieve and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Marcio Ferreira Moreno , Rafael Rossi de Mello Brandão

This paper presents the development of an AI-based language learning platform Revita. It is a freely available intelligent online tutor, developed to support learners of multiple languages, from low-intermediate to advanced levels. It has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Anisia Katinskaia , Jue Hou , Anh-Duc Vu , Roman Yangarber

The use of chatbots has spread, generating great interest in the industry for the possibility of automating tasks within the execution of their processes. The implementation of chatbots, however simple, is a complex endeavor that involves…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Bedilia Estrada-Torres , Adela del-Río-Ortega , Manuel Resinas

Despite advancements in conversational AI, language models encounter challenges to handle diverse conversational tasks, and existing dialogue dataset collections often lack diversity and comprehensiveness. To tackle these issues, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Jianguo Zhang , Kun Qian , Zhiwei Liu , Shelby Heinecke , Rui Meng , Ye Liu , Zhou Yu , Huan Wang , Silvio Savarese , Caiming Xiong

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

Large, transformer-based pretrained language models like BERT, GPT, and T5 have demonstrated a deep understanding of contextual semantics and language syntax. Their success has enabled significant advances in conversational AI, including…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Christopher Richardson , Larry Heck

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

Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) systems need to include an explanation model to communicate the internal decisions, behaviours and actions to the interacting humans. Successful explanation involves both cognitive and social…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-03-07 Prashan Madumal , Tim Miller , Liz Sonenberg , Frank Vetere

This paper presents key principles and solutions to the challenges faced in designing a domain-specific conversational agent for the legal domain. It includes issues of scope, platform, architecture and preparation of input data. It…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-09-02 Mudita Sharma , Tony Russell-Rose , Lina Barakat , Akitaka Matsuo

Compound AI systems, orchestrating multiple AI components and external APIs, are increasingly vital but face challenges in managing complexity, handling ambiguity, and enabling effective development workflows. Existing frameworks often…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Helena Zhang , Jakobi Haskell , Yosef Frost

This survey paper examines the recent advancements in AI agent implementations, with a focus on their ability to achieve complex goals that require enhanced reasoning, planning, and tool execution capabilities. The primary objectives of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Tula Masterman , Sandi Besen , Mason Sawtell , Alex Chao