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This pilot study presents the development of the InfoTech Assistant, a domain-specific, multimodal chatbot engineered to address queries in bridge evaluation and infrastructure technology. By integrating web data scraping, large language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Sai Surya Gadiraju , Duoduo Liao , Akhila Kudupudi , Santosh Kasula , Charitha Chalasani

In recent years, chat-bot has become a new type of intelligent terminal to guide users to consume services. However, it is criticized most that the services it provides are not what users expect or most expect. This defect mostly dues to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Junrui Tian , Zhiying Tu , Zhongjie Wang , Xiaofei Xu , Min Liu

We investigated the challenges of mitigating response delays in free-form conversations with virtual agents powered by Large Language Models (LLMs) within Virtual Reality (VR). For this, we used conversational fillers, such as gestures and…

Open-domain Question Answering models which directly leverage question-answer (QA) pairs, such as closed-book QA (CBQA) models and QA-pair retrievers, show promise in terms of speed and memory compared to conventional models which retrieve…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Patrick Lewis , Yuxiang Wu , Linqing Liu , Pasquale Minervini , Heinrich Küttler , Aleksandra Piktus , Pontus Stenetorp , Sebastian Riedel

We introduce LlamaPIE, the first real-time proactive assistant designed to enhance human conversations through discreet, concise guidance delivered via hearable devices. Unlike traditional language models that require explicit user…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Tuochao Chen , Nicholas Batchelder , Alisa Liu , Noah Smith , Shyamnath Gollakota

The rise of increasingly more powerful chatbots offers a new way to collect information through conversational surveys, where a chatbot asks open-ended questions, interprets a user's free-text responses, and probes answers whenever needed.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Ziang Xiao , Michelle X. Zhou , Q. Vera Liao , Gloria Mark , Changyan Chi , Wenxi Chen , Huahai Yang

Social media platforms like X(Twitter) and Reddit are vital to global communication. However, advancements in Large Language Model (LLM) technology give rise to social media bots with unprecedented intelligence. These bots adeptly simulate…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Boyu Qiao , Kun Li , Wei Zhou , Shilong Li , Qianqian Lu , Songlin Hu

We present FinAI Data Assistant, a practical approach for natural-language querying over financial databases that combines large language models (LLMs) with the OpenAI Function Calling API. Rather than synthesizing complete SQL via…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Juhyeong Kim , Yejin Kim , Youngbin Lee , Hyunwoo Byun

The popularity of social media platforms such as Twitter has led to the proliferation of automated bots, creating both opportunities and challenges in information dissemination, user engagements, and quality of services. Past works on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-05-14 Richard Jayadi Oentaryo , Arinto Murdopo , Philips Kokoh Prasetyo , Ee-Peng Lim

The greatest challenges in building sophisticated open-domain conversational agents arise directly from the potential for ongoing mixed-initiative multi-turn dialogues, which do not follow a particular plan or pursue a particular fixed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Kevin K. Bowden , Shereen Oraby , Jiaqi Wu , Amita Misra , Marilyn Walker

Conversational question answering systems often rely on semantic parsing to enable interactive information retrieval, which involves the generation of structured database queries from a natural language input. For information-seeking…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Phillip Schneider , Manuel Klettner , Kristiina Jokinen , Elena Simperl , Florian Matthes

Recent large language models (LLMs) have enabled the development of advanced agentic systems that can integrate various tools and APIs to fulfill user queries through function calling. However, the deployment of these LLMs on the edge has…

It may be difficult for some individuals to open up and share their thoughts and feelings in front of a mental health expert. For those who are more at ease with a virtual agent, conversational agents can serve as an intermediate step in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Harsh Sakhrani , Saloni Parekh , Shubham Mahajan

Conversation is ubiquitous in social life, but the empirical study of this interactive process has been thwarted by tools that are insufficiently modular and unadaptive to researcher needs. To relieve many constraints in conversation…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-24 David M. Markowitz

Large-language models (LLMs) hold significant promise in improving human-robot interaction, offering advanced conversational skills and versatility in managing diverse, open-ended user requests in various tasks and domains. Despite the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Callie Y. Kim , Christine P. Lee , Bilge Mutlu

We publicly release a new large-scale dataset, called SearchQA, for machine comprehension, or question-answering. Unlike recently released datasets, such as DeepMind CNN/DailyMail and SQuAD, the proposed SearchQA was constructed to reflect…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-06-13 Matthew Dunn , Levent Sagun , Mike Higgins , V. Ugur Guney , Volkan Cirik , Kyunghyun Cho

Employing Large Language Models (LLMs) to address mathematical problems is an intriguing research endeavor, considering the abundance of math problems expressed in natural language across numerous science and engineering fields. LLMs, with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Yiran Wu , Feiran Jia , Shaokun Zhang , Hangyu Li , Erkang Zhu , Yue Wang , Yin Tat Lee , Richard Peng , Qingyun Wu , Chi Wang

Given the increasing popularity of customer service dialogue on Twitter, analysis of conversation data is essential to understand trends in customer and agent behavior for the purpose of automating customer service interactions. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-19 Shereen Oraby , Pritam Gundecha , Jalal Mahmud , Mansurul Bhuiyan , Rama Akkiraju

Conversational agents are gaining popularity with the increasing ubiquity of smart devices. However, training agents in a data driven manner is challenging due to a lack of suitable corpora. This paper presents a novel method for gathering…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-20 Joachim Fainberg , Ben Krause , Mihai Dobre , Marco Damonte , Emmanuel Kahembwe , Daniel Duma , Bonnie Webber , Federico Fancellu

The last few years have seen an explosion of research on the topic of automated question answering (QA), spanning the communities of information retrieval, natural language processing, and artificial intelligence. This tutorial would cover…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Rishiraj Saha Roy , Avishek Anand