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Open-domain dialogue systems aim to generate natural and engaging conversations, providing significant practical value in real applications such as social robotics and personal assistants. The advent of large language models (LLMs) has…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Yufeng Wang , Jinwu Hu , Ziteng Huang , Kunyang Lin , Zitian Zhang , Peihao Chen , Yu Hu , Qianyue Wang , Zhuliang Yu , Bin Sun , Xiaofen Xing , Qingfang Zheng , Mingkui Tan

A long-term goal of machine learning research is to build an intelligent dialog agent. Most research in natural language understanding has focused on learning from fixed training sets of labeled data, with supervision either at the word…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-26 Jason Weston

Large-scale language models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, are becoming increasingly sophisticated and exhibit human-like capabilities, playing an essential role in assisting humans in a variety of everyday tasks. An important application of AI…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Yugen Sato , Taisei Nakajima , Tatsuki Kawamoto , Tomohiro Takagi

We introduce doc2dial, a new dataset of goal-oriented dialogues that are grounded in the associated documents. Inspired by how the authors compose documents for guiding end users, we first construct dialogue flows based on the content…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Song Feng , Hui Wan , Chulaka Gunasekara , Siva Sankalp Patel , Sachindra Joshi , Luis A. Lastras

The goal of building dialogue agents that can converse with humans naturally has been a long-standing dream of researchers since the early days of artificial intelligence. The well-known Turing Test proposed to judge the ultimate validity…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Tom Young

Robots navigating in human environments should use language to ask for assistance and be able to understand human responses. To study this challenge, we introduce Cooperative Vision-and-Dialog Navigation, a dataset of over 2k embodied,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Jesse Thomason , Michael Murray , Maya Cakmak , Luke Zettlemoyer

Many real-world open-domain conversation applications have specific goals to achieve during open-ended chats, such as recommendation, psychotherapy, education, etc. We study the problem of imposing conversational goals on open-domain chat…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-30 Jianheng Tang , Tiancheng Zhao , Chenyan Xiong , Xiaodan Liang , Eric P. Xing , Zhiting Hu

Although numerous datasets have been developed to support dialogue systems, most existing chit-chat datasets overlook the cultural nuances inherent in natural human conversations. To address this gap, we introduce SEADialogues, a culturally…

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

One challenge for dialogue agents is recognizing feelings in the conversation partner and replying accordingly, a key communicative skill. While it is straightforward for humans to recognize and acknowledge others' feelings in a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-30 Hannah Rashkin , Eric Michael Smith , Margaret Li , Y-Lan Boureau

While automatic dialogue tutors hold great potential in making education personalized and more accessible, research on such systems has been hampered by a lack of sufficiently large and high-quality datasets. Collecting such datasets…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Jakub Macina , Nico Daheim , Sankalan Pal Chowdhury , Tanmay Sinha , Manu Kapur , Iryna Gurevych , Mrinmaya Sachan

Dialogue systems, commonly known as chatbots, have gained escalating popularity in recent times due to their wide-spread applications in carrying out chit-chat conversations with users and task-oriented dialogues to accomplish various user…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Sahisnu Mazumder , Bing Liu

Considerable progress has been made towards conversational models that generate coherent and fluent responses by training large language models on large dialogue datasets. These models have little or no control of the generated responses…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Andrea Madotto , Zhaojiang Lin , Yejin Bang , Pascale Fung

This paper presents a research platform that supports spoken dialogue interaction with multiple robots. The demonstration showcases our crafted MultiBot testing scenario in which users can verbally issue search, navigate, and follow…

Current conversational systems can follow simple commands and answer basic questions, but they have difficulty maintaining coherent and open-ended conversations about specific topics. Competitions like the Conversational Intelligence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-09 Nicolas Gontier , Koustuv Sinha , Peter Henderson , Iulian Serban , Michael Noseworthy , Prasanna Parthasarathi , Joelle Pineau

Spoken dialogue systems promise efficient and natural access to a large variety of information sources and services from any phone. However, current spoken dialogue systems are deficient in their strategies for preventing, identifying and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-06-10 A. Gorin , I. Langkilde-Geary , M. A. Walker , J. Wright , H. Wright Hastie

With the rise of smart personal devices, service-oriented human-agent interactions have become increasingly prevalent. This trend highlights the need for personalized dialogue assistants that can understand user-specific traits to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Zhaopei Huang , Qifeng Dai , Guozheng Wu , Xiaopeng Wu , Kehan Chen , Chuan Yu , Xubin Li , Tiezheng Ge , Wenxuan Wang , Qin Jin

Current neural network-based conversational models lack diversity and generate boring responses to open-ended utterances. Priors such as persona, emotion, or topic provide additional information to dialog models to aid response generation,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-05 Richard Csaky , Patrik Purgai , Gabor Recski

Multimodal machine translation and textual chat translation have received considerable attention in recent years. Although the conversation in its natural form is usually multimodal, there still lacks work on multimodal machine translation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Yunlong Liang , Fandong Meng , Jinan Xu , Yufeng Chen , Jie Zhou

Choosing suitable psychometric scales is an essential and difficult step in psychological consultation, which requires clinicians to integrate patient information, behaviors, and dynamic contextual information. Existing systems mainly use…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Yanzeng Li , Xiaoning Cao , Jialun Zhong , Jianpeng Hu , Jiangshan Tan , Ningning Liu , Feng Xiang , Shasha Han