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We propose a novel large-scale emotional dialogue dataset, consisting of 1M dialogues retrieved from the OpenSubtitles corpus and annotated with 32 emotions and 9 empathetic response intents using a BERT-based fine-grained dialogue emotion…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Anuradha Welivita , Yubo Xie , Pearl Pu

Current approaches for controlling dialogue response generation are primarily focused on high-level attributes like style, sentiment, or topic. In this work, we focus on constrained long-term dialogue generation, which involves more…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Ramya Ramakrishnan , Hashan Buddhika Narangodage , Mauro Schilman , Kilian Q. Weinberger , Ryan McDonald

The growing number of generative AI-based dialogue systems has made their evaluation a crucial challenge. This paper presents our contribution to this important problem through the Dialogue System Technology Challenge (DSTC-12, Track 1),…

Dialog evaluation is a challenging problem, especially for non task-oriented dialogs where conversational success is not well-defined. We propose to evaluate dialog quality using topic-based metrics that describe the ability of a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-01-12 Fenfei Guo , Angeliki Metallinou , Chandra Khatri , Anirudh Raju , Anu Venkatesh , Ashwin Ram

Emphasis is a crucial component in human communication, which indicates the speaker's intention and implication beyond pure text in dialogue. While Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized natural language processing, their ability…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Guan-Ting Lin , Hung-yi Lee

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

The study illustrates a first step towards an ongoing work aimed at developing a dataset of dialogues potentially useful for customer service conversation management between humans and AI chatbots. The approach exploits ChatGPT 3.5 to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Alfredo Cuzzocrea , Giovanni Pilato , Pablo Garcia Bringas

This paper provides preliminary results on exploring the task of performing turn-level data augmentation for dialogue system based on different types of commonsense relationships, and the automatic evaluation of the generated synthetic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Marcos Estecha-Garitagoitia , Chen Zhang , Mario Rodríguez-Cantelar , Luis Fernando D'Haro

While dialogue remains an important end-goal of natural language research, the difficulty of evaluation is an oft-quoted reason why it remains troublesome to make real progress towards its solution. Evaluation difficulties are actually…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Margaret Li , Jason Weston , Stephen Roller

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

Efforts towards endowing robots with the ability to speak have benefited from recent advancements in natural language processing, in particular large language models. However, current language models are not fully incremental, as their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Casey Kennington , Pierre Lison , David Schlangen

Recent advances in pre-trained language models have significantly improved neural response generation. However, existing methods usually view the dialogue context as a linear sequence of tokens and learn to generate the next word through…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Xiaodong Gu , Kang Min Yoo , Jung-Woo Ha

Mixed-initiative dialogue tasks involve repeated exchanges of information and conversational control. Conversational agents gain control by generating responses that follow particular dialogue intents or strategies, prescribed by a policy…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Maximillian Chen , Xiao Yu , Weiyan Shi , Urvi Awasthi , Zhou Yu

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

Video generation has achieved remarkable progress, with generated videos increasingly resembling real ones. However, the rapid advance in generation has outpaced the development of adequate evaluation metrics. Currently, the assessment of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Nabyl Quignon , Baptiste Chopin , Yaohui Wang , Antitza Dantcheva

Conversational search systems, such as Google Assistant and Microsoft Cortana, enable users to interact with search systems in multiple rounds through natural language dialogues. Evaluating such systems is very challenging given that any…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Zeyang Liu , Ke Zhou , Max L. Wilson

Dialogue systems need to produce responses that realize multiple types of dialogue acts (DAs) with high semantic fidelity. In the past, natural language generators (NLGs) for dialogue were trained on large parallel corpora that map from a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Angela Ramirez , Karik Agarwal , Juraj Juraska , Utkarsh Garg , Marilyn A. Walker

Open Domain dialog system evaluation is one of the most important challenges in dialog research. Existing automatic evaluation metrics, such as BLEU are mostly reference-based. They calculate the difference between the generated response…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Weixin Liang , James Zou , Zhou Yu

Automated dialogue systems are important applications of artificial intelligence, and traditional systems struggle to understand user emotions and provide empathetic feedback. This study integrates emotional intelligence technology into…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Jin Wang , JinFei Wang , Shuying Dai , Jiqiang Yu , Keqin Li

Automatic evaluation of sequence generation, traditionally reliant on metrics like BLEU and ROUGE, often fails to capture the semantic accuracy of generated text sequences due to their emphasis on n-gram overlap. A promising solution to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Chenglong Wang , Hang Zhou , Kaiyan Chang , Tongran Liu , Chunliang Zhang , Quan Du , Tong Xiao , Yue Zhang , Jingbo Zhu