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ChatGPT, a software seeking to simulate human conversational abilities, is attracting increasing attention. It is sometimes portrayed as a groundbreaking productivity aid, including for creative work. In this paper, we run an experiment to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Claudia Biancotti , Carolina Camassa

Exoskeletons open up a unique interaction space that seamlessly integrates users' body movements with robotic actuation. Despite its potential, human-exoskeleton interaction remains an underexplored area in HCI, largely due to the lack of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Marie Muehlhaus , Alexander Liggesmeyer , Jürgen Steimle

This paper introduces QAConv, a new question answering (QA) dataset that uses conversations as a knowledge source. We focus on informative conversations, including business emails, panel discussions, and work channels. Unlike open-domain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-18 Chien-Sheng Wu , Andrea Madotto , Wenhao Liu , Pascale Fung , Caiming Xiong

Large language models (LLMs) have displayed massive improvements in reasoning and decision-making skills and can hold natural conversations with users. Many recent works seek to augment LLM-based assistants with external tools so they can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Nicholas Farn , Richard Shin

This paper aims to provide a radical rundown on Conversation Search (ConvSearch), an approach to enhance the information retrieval method where users engage in a dialogue for the information-seeking tasks. In this survey, we predominantly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Naga Sai Krishna Adatrao , Gowtham Reddy Gadireddy , Jiho Noh

In this paper, we outline the vision of chatbots that facilitate the interaction between citizens and policy-makers at the city scale. We report the results of a co-design session attended by more than 60 participants. We give an outlook of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-08-10 Pavel Kucherbaev , Achilleas Psyllidis , Alessandro Bozzon

We propose a unified Implicit Dialog framework for goal-oriented, information seeking tasks of Conversational Search applications. It aims to enable dialog interactions with domain data without replying on explicitly encoded the rules but…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Song Feng , R. Chulaka Gunasekara , Sunil Shashidhara , Kshitij P. Fadnis , Lazaros C. Polymenakos

Dialog system developers need high-quality data to train, fine-tune and assess their systems. They often use crowdsourcing for this since it provides large quantities of data from many workers. However, the data may not be of sufficiently…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Jessica Huynh , Ting-Rui Chiang , Jeffrey Bigham , Maxine Eskenazi

The proliferation of physiological sensors opens new opportunities to explore interactions, conduct experiments and evaluate the user experience with continuous monitoring of bodily functions. Commercial devices, however, can be costly or…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Jitesh Joshi , Katherine Wang , Youngjun Cho

Many people browse online communities to learn from others' experiences and opinions, e.g., for constructing travel plans. Conversational search powered by large language models (LLMs) could ease this information-seeking task, but it…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Shiwei Wu , Xinyue Chen , Yuheng Liu , Xingbo Wang , Qingyu Guo , Longfei Chen , Chuhan Shi , Zhenhui Peng

Automated service agents require well-structured workflows to provide consistent and accurate responses to customer queries. However, these workflows are often undocumented, and their automatic extraction from conversations remains…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Prafulla Kumar Choubey , Xiangyu Peng , Shilpa Bhagavath , Caiming Xiong , Shiva Kumar Pentyala , Chien-Sheng Wu

Benchmarking AI systems in multi-turn interactive scenarios is essential for understanding their practical capabilities in real-world applications. However, existing evaluation protocols are highly heterogeneous, differing significantly in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Qi Jia , Haodong Zhao , Dun Pei , Xiujie Song , Shibo Wang , Zijian Chen , Zicheng Zhang , Xiangyang Zhu , Guangtao Zhai

The ability to understand a user's underlying needs is critical for conversational systems, especially with limited input from users in a conversation. Thus, in such a domain, Asking Clarification Questions (ACQs) to reveal users' true…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Hossein A. Rahmani , Xi Wang , Yue Feng , Qiang Zhang , Emine Yilmaz , Aldo Lipani

Conversational search is a relatively young area of research that aims at automating an information-seeking dialogue. In this paper we help to position it with respect to other research areas within conversational Artificial Intelligence…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Svitlana Vakulenko , Evangelos Kanoulas , Maarten de Rijke

Virtual reality is expected to play a significant role in the transformation of education and psychological studies. The possibilities for its application as a visual research method can be enhanced as established frameworks and toolkits…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Corrie Green , Chloë Farr , Yang Jiang

The ability to engage in mixed-initiative interaction is one of the core requirements for a conversational search system. How to achieve this is poorly understood. We propose a set of unsupervised metrics, termed ConversationShape, that…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-05-27 Svitlana Vakulenko , Evangelos Kanoulas , Maarten de Rijke

Conversation has been a primary means for the exchange of information since ancient times. Understanding patterns of information flow in conversations is a critical step in assessing and improving communication quality. In this paper, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Laurence A. Clarfeld , Robert Gramling , Donna M. Rizzo , Margaret J. Eppstein

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

Many professional services are provided through text and voice systems, from voice calls over the internet to messaging and emails. There is a growing need for both individuals and organizations to understand these online conversations…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-05-16 Joshua Y. Kim , Rafael A. Calvo , Kalina Yacef , N. J. Enfield

Open conversations are one of the most engaging forms of teaching. However, creating those conversations in educational software is a complex endeavor, especially if we want to address the needs of different audiences. While language models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Donya Rooein , Dirk Hovy