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The development of Open-Domain Dialogue Systems (ODS)is a trending topic due to the large number of research challenges, large societal and business impact, and advances in the underlying technology. However, the development of these kinds…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Chen Zhang , João Sedoc , Luis Fernando D'Haro , Rafael Banchs , Alexander Rudnicky

Today, as seen in smart speakers, spoken dialogue technology is rapidly advancing to enable human-like interaction. However, current dialogue systems cannot pay attention not only to the content of speech, but also to the way of speaking…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Koki Inoue , Shuichiro Ogake , Hayato Kawamura , Naoki Igo

The article proposes a system for knowledge-based conversation designed for Social Robots and other conversational agents. The proposed system relies on an Ontology for the description of all concepts that may be relevant conversation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Lucrezia Grassi , Carmine Tommaso Recchiuto , Antonio Sgorbissa

Dialog systems research has primarily been focused around two main types of applications - task-oriented dialog systems that learn to use clarification to aid in understanding a goal, and open-ended dialog systems that are expected to carry…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-29 Aishwarya Padmakumar , Raymond J. Mooney

Machine Learning (ML) models are increasingly used to make critical decisions in real-world applications, yet they have become more complex, making them harder to understand. To this end, researchers have proposed several techniques to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Dylan Slack , Satyapriya Krishna , Himabindu Lakkaraju , Sameer Singh

Along with the development of chatbot, language models and speech technologies, there is a growing possibility and interest of creating systems able to interface with humans seamlessly through natural language or directly via speech. In…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Frank Joublin , Antonello Ceravola , Cristian Sandu

Though great progress has been made for human-machine conversation, current dialogue system is still in its infancy: it usually converses passively and utters words more as a matter of response, rather than on its own initiatives. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Wenquan Wu , Zhen Guo , Xiangyang Zhou , Hua Wu , Xiyuan Zhang , Rongzhong Lian , Haifeng Wang

The conversational agents is one of the most interested topics in computer science field in the recent decade. Which can be composite from more than one subject in this field, which you need to apply Natural Language Processing Concepts and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Moataz Mohammed , Mostafa M. Aref

Despite end-to-end neural systems making significant progress in the last decade for task-oriented as well as chit-chat based dialogue systems, most dialogue systems rely on hybrid approaches which use a combination of rule-based, retrieval…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Ashish Shrivastava , Kaustubh Dhole , Abhinav Bhatt , Sharvani Raghunath

Traditionally, industry solutions for building a task-oriented dialog system have relied on helping dialog authors define rule-based dialog managers, represented as dialog flows. While dialog flows are intuitively interpretable and good for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Swadheen Shukla , Lars Liden , Shahin Shayandeh , Eslam Kamal , Jinchao Li , Matt Mazzola , Thomas Park , Baolin Peng , Jianfeng Gao

Dialogue systems have many applications such as customer support or question answering. Typically they have been limited to shallow single turn interactions. However more advanced applications such as career coaching or planning a trip…

In order to build dialogue systems to tackle the ambitious task of holding social conversations, we argue that we need a data driven approach that includes insight into human conversational chit chat, and which incorporates different…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-12 Kevin K. Bowden , Shereen Oraby , Amita Misra , Jiaqi Wu , Stephanie Lukin

We present a chatbot implementing a novel dialogue management approach based on logical inference. Instead of framing conversation a sequence of response generation tasks, we model conversation as a collaborative inference process in which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Sarah E. Finch , James D. Finch , Daniil Huryn , William Hutsell , Xiaoyuan Huang , Han He , Jinho D. Choi

Today is the era of intelligence in machines. With the advances in Artificial Intelligence, machines have started to impersonate different human traits, a chatbot is the next big thing in the domain of conversational services. A chatbot is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Khouloud Hwerbi

Multi-party Conversational Systems are systems with natural language interaction between one or more people or systems. From the moment that an utterance is sent to a group, to the moment that it is replied in the group by a member, several…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-05-08 Maira Gatti de Bayser , Paulo Cavalin , Renan Souza , Alan Braz , Heloisa Candello , Claudio Pinhanez , Jean-Pierre Briot

In the rapidly evolving landscape of human-robot collaboration, effective communication between humans and robots is crucial for complex task execution. Traditional request-response systems often lack naturalness and may hinder efficiency.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Davide Ferrari , Filippo Alberi , Cristian Secchi

We study open domain dialogue generation with dialogue acts designed to explain how people engage in social chat. To imitate human behavior, we propose managing the flow of human-machine interactions with the dialogue acts as policies. The…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-23 Can Xu , Wei Wu , Yu Wu

Though widely used in industry, traditional task-oriented dialogue systems suffer from three bottlenecks: (i) difficult ontology construction (e.g., intents and slots); (ii) poor controllability and interpretability; (iii)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Xiangyu Xi , Chenxu Lv , Yuncheng Hua , Wei Ye , Chaobo Sun , Shuaipeng Liu , Fan Yang , Guanglu Wan

An important aspect of developing conversational agents is to give a bot the ability to improve through communicating with humans and to learn from the mistakes that it makes. Most research has focused on learning from fixed training sets…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-01-17 Jiwei Li , Alexander H. Miller , Sumit Chopra , Marc'Aurelio Ranzato , Jason Weston

The growing demand for software developers and the increasing development complexity have emphasized the need for support in software engineering projects. This is especially relevant in light of advancements in artificial intelligence,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Glaucia Melo