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When a human communicates with a machine using natural language on the web and online, how can it understand the human's intention and semantic context of their talk? This is an important AI task as it enables the machine to construct a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Soyeon Caren Han , Siqu Long , Henry Weld , Josiah Poon

Chatbots have revolutionized the way humans interact with computer systems and they have substituted the use of service agents, call-center representatives etc. Fitness industry has always been a growing industry although it has not adapted…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Sai Rugved Lola , Rahul Dhadvai , Wei Wang , Ting Zhu

Software developers use natural language to interact not only with other humans, but increasingly also with chatbots. These interactions have different properties and flow differently based on what goal the developer wants to achieve and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Ranim Khojah , Francisco Gomes de Oliveira Neto , Philipp Leitner

In this paper, we describe the foundations for generating a chatbot out of a website equipped with simple, bot-specific HTML annotations. The approach is part of what we call conversational web browsing, i.e., a dialog-based, natural…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Pietro Chittò , Marcos Baez , Florian Daniel , Boualem Benatallah

We present a simple yet effective method to train a named entity recognition (NER) model that operates on business telephone conversation transcripts that contain noise due to the nature of spoken conversation and artifacts of automatic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Xue-Yong Fu , Cheng Chen , Md Tahmid Rahman Laskar , Shashi Bhushan TN , Simon Corston-Oliver

Chatbots are envisioned to dramatically change the future of Software Engineering, allowing practitioners to chat and inquire about their software projects and interact with different services using natural language. At the heart of every…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Ahmad Abdellatif , Khaled Badran , Diego Elias Costa , Emad Shihab

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

Ontology-based approach to the Natural Language Understanding (NLU) processing allows to improve questions answering quality in dialogue systems. We describe our NLU engine architecture and evaluate its implementation. The engine transforms…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Sergey Gorshkov , Constantin Kondratiev , Roman Shebalov

In dialogue systems, the tasks of named entity recognition (NER) and named entity linking (NEL) are vital preprocessing steps for understanding user intent, especially in open domain interaction where we cannot rely on domain-specific…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-11 Kevin K. Bowden , Jiaqi Wu , Shereen Oraby , Amita Misra , Marilyn Walker

In this modern era of technology with e-commerce developing at a rapid pace, it is very important to understand customer requirements and details from a business conversation. It is very crucial for customer retention and satisfaction.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Sharvi Endait , Ruturaj Ghatage , DD Kadam

To sustain engaging conversation, it is critical for chatbots to make good use of relevant knowledge. Equipped with a knowledge base, chatbots are able to extract conversation-related attributes and entities to facilitate context modeling…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-12 Yanran Li , Wenjie Li , Ziqiang Cao , Chengyao Chen

Humans are increasingly interacting with machines through language, sometimes in contexts where the user may not know they are talking to a machine (like over the phone or a text chatbot). We aim to understand how system designers and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-08 David Gros , Yu Li , Zhou Yu

Many users communicate with chatbots and AI assistants in order to help them with various tasks. A key component of the assistant is the ability to understand and answer a user's natural language questions for question-answering (QA).…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-08 Anthony Colas , Trung Bui , Franck Dernoncourt , Moumita Sinha , Doo Soon Kim

Patients must possess the knowledge necessary to actively participate in their care. We present NoteAid-Chatbot, a conversational AI that promotes patient understanding via a novel 'learning as conversation' framework, built on a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Won Seok Jang , Hieu Tran , Manav Mistry , SaiKiran Gandluri , Yifan Zhang , Sharmin Sultana , Sunjae Kown , Yuan Zhang , Zonghai Yao , Hong Yu

Natural Language Understanding (NLU) is a core component of dialog systems. It typically involves two tasks - intent classification (IC) and slot labeling (SL), which are then followed by a dialogue management (DM) component. Such NLU…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-20 Arshit Gupta , Peng Zhang , Garima Lalwani , Mona Diab

APIs are everywhere; they provide access to automation solutions that could help businesses automate some of their tasks. Unfortunately, they may not be accessible to the business users who need them but are not equipped with the necessary…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Siyu Huo , Kushal Mukherjee , Jayachandu Bandlamudi , Vatche Isahagian , Vinod Muthusamy , Yara Rizk

With the rapid evolution of Natural Language Processing (NLP), Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT have emerged as powerful tools capable of transforming various sectors. Their vast knowledge base and dynamic interaction capabilities…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Kevin Wang , Jason Ramos , Ramon Lawrence

In this paper, we describe Chat-Bot-Kit, a web-based tool for text-based chats that we designed for research purposes in computer-mediated communication (CMC). Chat-Bot-Kit enables to carry out language studies on text-based real-time chats…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Kyoko Sugisaki

With the development of Natural Language Processing, Automatic question-answering system such as Waston, Siri, Alexa, has become one of the most important NLP applications. Nowadays, enterprises try to build automatic custom service…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Hsiang-En Cherng , Chia-Hui Chang

Software development is a cognitively intensive process requiring multitasking, adherence to evolving workflows, and continuous learning. With the rise of large language model (LLM)-based tools, such as conversational agents (CAs), there is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Glaucia Melo , Paulo Alencar , Donald Cowan