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A well-designed interactive human-like dialogue system is expected to take actions (e.g. smiling) and respond in a pattern similar to humans. However, due to the limitation of single-modality (only speech) or small volume of currently…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Zhiling Luo , Qiankun Shi , Sha Zhao , Wei Zhou , Haiqing Chen , Yuankai Ma , Haitao Leng

Advancements in dialogue systems powered by large language models (LLMs) have outpaced the development of reliable evaluation metrics, particularly for diverse and creative responses. We present a benchmark for evaluating the robustness of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Justin Vasselli , Adam Nohejl , Taro Watanabe

To overcome the limitations of automated metrics (e.g. BLEU, METEOR) for evaluating dialogue systems, researchers typically use human judgments to provide convergent evidence. While it has been demonstrated that human judgments can suffer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Sashank Santhanam , Samira Shaikh

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

We present "AutoJudge", an automated evaluation method for conversational dialogue systems. The method works by first generating dialogues based on self-talk, i.e. dialogue systems talking to itself. Then, it uses human ratings on these…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Jan Deriu , Mark Cieliebak

Task-oriented dialogue (TOD) systems are experiencing a revolution driven by Large Language Models (LLMs), yet the evaluation methodologies for these systems remain insufficient for their growing sophistication. While traditional automatic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Emre Can Acikgoz , Carl Guo , Suvodip Dey , Akul Datta , Takyoung Kim , Gokhan Tur , Dilek Hakkani-Tür

The aim of this paper is to mitigate the shortcomings of automatic evaluation of open-domain dialog systems through multi-reference evaluation. Existing metrics have been shown to correlate poorly with human judgement, particularly in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Prakhar Gupta , Shikib Mehri , Tiancheng Zhao , Amy Pavel , Maxine Eskenazi , Jeffrey P. Bigham

Spoken Dialogue Models (SDMs) have recently attracted significant attention for their ability to generate voice responses directly to users' spoken queries. Despite their increasing popularity, there exists a gap in research focused on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Chengqian Ma , Wei Tao , Yiwen Guo

Dialogue systems are a popular natural language processing (NLP) task as it is promising in real-life applications. It is also a complicated task since many NLP tasks deserving study are involved. As a result, a multitude of novel works on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Jinjie Ni , Tom Young , Vlad Pandelea , Fuzhao Xue , Erik Cambria

Dialogue systems have attracted more and more attention. Recent advances on dialogue systems are overwhelmingly contributed by deep learning techniques, which have been employed to enhance a wide range of big data applications such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Hongshen Chen , Xiaorui Liu , Dawei Yin , Jiliang Tang

With the rise of Large Language Models (LLMs), AI assistants' ability to utilize tools, especially through API calls, has advanced notably. This progress has necessitated more accurate evaluation methods. Many existing studies adopt static…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Honglin Mu , Yang Xu , Yunlong Feng , Xiaofeng Han , Yitong Li , Yutai Hou , Wanxiang Che

Dialogue systems have become recently essential in our life. Their use is getting more and more fluid and easy throughout the time. This boils down to the improvements made in NLP and AI fields. In this paper, we try to provide an overview…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-22 Maali Mnasri

Improving user experience of a dialogue system often requires intensive developer effort to read conversation logs, run statistical analyses, and intuit the relative importance of system shortcomings. This paper presents a novel approach to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-02 James D. Finch , Sarah E. Finch , Jinho D. Choi

Speech technologies are deployed in high-stakes settings, yet fairness concerns remain fragmented across tasks and disciplines. Existing surveys either adopt a general machine-learning perspective that overlooks speech-specific properties…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-05 Yi-Cheng Lin , Yun-Shao Tsai , Kuan-Yu Chen , Hsiao-Ying Huang , Huang-Cheng Chou , Hung-yi Lee

Large Language Models (LLMs) are rapidly evolving and impacting various fields, necessitating the development of effective methods to evaluate and compare their performance. Most current approaches for performance evaluation are either…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Behrad Moniri , Hamed Hassani , Edgar Dobriban

Automatic evaluation of open-domain dialogue response generation is very challenging because there are many appropriate responses for a given context. Existing evaluation models merely compare the generated response with the ground truth…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-15 JinYeong Bak , Alice Oh

Automatically evaluating the quality of dialogue responses for unstructured domains is a challenging problem. ADEM(Lowe et al. 2017) formulated the automatic evaluation of dialogue systems as a learning problem and showed that such a model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Ananya B. Sai , Mithun Das Gupta , Mitesh M. Khapra , Mukundhan Srinivasan

Negotiation is one of the crucial abilities in human communication, and there has been a resurgent research interest in negotiation dialogue systems recently, which goal is to empower intelligent agents with such ability that can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Haolan Zhan , Yufei Wang , Tao Feng , Yuncheng Hua , Suraj Sharma , Zhuang Li , Lizhen Qu , Gholamreza Haffari

Evaluating open-domain dialogue systems is difficult due to the diversity of possible correct answers. Automatic metrics such as BLEU correlate weakly with human annotations, resulting in a significant bias across different models and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Nouha Dziri , Ehsan Kamalloo , Kory W. Mathewson , Osmar Zaiane

Abstractive dialogue summarization is the task of distilling conversations into informative and concise summaries. Although reviews have been conducted on this topic, there is a lack of comprehensive work detailing the challenges of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Frederic Kirstein , Jan Philip Wahle , Bela Gipp , Terry Ruas