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Knowledge-based, open-domain dialogue generation aims to build chit-chat systems that talk to humans using mined support knowledge. Many types and sources of knowledge have previously been shown to be useful as support knowledge. Even in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Xiangci Li , Linfeng Song , Lifeng Jin , Haitao Mi , Jessica Ouyang , Dong Yu

Knowledge-aided dialogue response generation aims at augmenting chatbots with relevant external knowledge in the hope of generating more informative responses. The majority of previous work assumes that the relevant knowledge is given as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Ante Wang , Linfeng Song , Qi Liu , Haitao Mi , Longyue Wang , Zhaopeng Tu , Jinsong Su , Dong Yu

To diversify and enrich generated dialogue responses, knowledge-grounded dialogue has been investigated in recent years. The existing methods tackle the knowledge grounding challenge by retrieving the relevant sentences over a large corpus…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Yan Xu , Etsuko Ishii , Samuel Cahyawijaya , Zihan Liu , Genta Indra Winata , Andrea Madotto , Dan Su , Pascale Fung

In knowledge grounded conversation, domain knowledge plays an important role in a special domain such as Music. The response of knowledge grounded conversation might contain multiple answer entities or no entity at all. Although existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-14 Wenya Zhu , Kaixiang Mo , Yu Zhang , Zhangbin Zhu , Xuezheng Peng , Qiang Yang

Incorporating external knowledge into the response generation process is essential to building more helpful and reliable dialog agents. However, collecting knowledge-grounded conversations is often costly, calling for a better pre-trained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Qi Zhu , Fei Mi , Zheng Zhang , Yasheng Wang , Yitong Li , Xin Jiang , Qun Liu , Xiaoyan Zhu , Minlie Huang

Task-oriented dialogue generation is challenging since the underlying knowledge is often dynamic and effectively incorporating knowledge into the learning process is hard. It is particularly challenging to generate both human-like and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Md Rashad Al Hasan Rony , Ricardo Usbeck , Jens Lehmann

Knowledge-grounded dialogue is a task of generating an informative response based on both the dialogue history and external knowledge source. In general, there are two forms of knowledge: manually annotated knowledge graphs and knowledge…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Yizhe Yang , Heyan Huang , Yihang Liu , Yang Gao

Generating knowledge grounded responses in both goal and non-goal oriented dialogue systems is an important research challenge. Knowledge Graphs (KG) can be viewed as an abstraction of the real world, which can potentially facilitate a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Debanjan Chaudhuri , Md Rashad Al Hasan Rony , Jens Lehmann

Language models have achieved impressive performances on dialogue generation tasks. However, when generating responses for a conversation that requires factual knowledge, they are far from perfect, due to an absence of mechanisms to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Minki Kang , Jin Myung Kwak , Jinheon Baek , Sung Ju Hwang

Knowledge retrieval is one of the major challenges in building a knowledge-grounded dialogue system. A common method is to use a neural retriever with a distributed approximate nearest-neighbor database to quickly find the relevant…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Nhat Tran , Diane Litman

Conversational question answering systems often rely on semantic parsing to enable interactive information retrieval, which involves the generation of structured database queries from a natural language input. For information-seeking…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Phillip Schneider , Manuel Klettner , Kristiina Jokinen , Elena Simperl , Florian Matthes

Constructing responses in task-oriented dialogue systems typically relies on information sources such the current dialogue state or external databases. This paper presents a novel approach to knowledge-grounded response generation that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Nicholas Thomas Walker , Stefan Ultes , Pierre Lison

The knowledge-grounded dialogue task aims to generate responses that convey information from given knowledge documents. However, it is a challenge for the current sequence-based model to acquire knowledge from complex documents and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Yizhe Yang , Heyan Huang , Yang Gao , Jiawei Li and

Recent advances in large-scale pre-training provide large models with the potential to learn knowledge from the raw text. It is thus natural to ask whether it is possible to leverage these large models as knowledge bases for downstream…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Yanyang Li , Jianqiao Zhao , Michael R. Lyu , Liwei Wang

Document-grounded dialogue (DGD) uses documents as external knowledge for dialogue generation. Correctly understanding the dialogue context is crucial for selecting knowledge from the document and generating proper responses. In this paper,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Longxuan Ma , Jiapeng Li , Mingda Li , Wei-Nan Zhang , Ting Liu

We explore question generation in the context of knowledge-grounded dialogs focusing on explainability and evaluation. Inspired by previous work on planning-based summarisation, we present a model which instead of directly generating a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Juliette Faille , Quentin Brabant , Gwenole Lecorve , Lina M. Rojas-Barahona , Claire Gardent

Image-grounded dialogue systems benefit greatly from integrating visual information, resulting in high-quality response generation. However, current models struggle to effectively utilize such information in zero-resource scenarios, mainly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Bo Zhang , Jian Wang , Hui Ma , Bo Xu , Hongfei Lin

Intelligent personal assistant systems that are able to have multi-turn conversations with human users are becoming increasingly popular. Most previous research has been focused on using either retrieval-based or generation-based methods to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Liu Yang , Junjie Hu , Minghui Qiu , Chen Qu , Jianfeng Gao , W. Bruce Croft , Xiaodong Liu , Yelong Shen , Jingjing Liu

Although neural conversation models are effective in learning how to produce fluent responses, their primary challenge lies in knowing what to say to make the conversation contentful and non-vacuous. We present a new end-to-end approach to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-10 Lianhui Qin , Michel Galley , Chris Brockett , Xiaodong Liu , Xiang Gao , Bill Dolan , Yejin Choi , Jianfeng Gao

Commonsense and background knowledge is required for a QA model to answer many nontrivial questions. Different from existing work on knowledge-aware QA, we focus on a more challenging task of leveraging external knowledge to generate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-09 Bin Bi , Chen Wu , Ming Yan , Wei Wang , Jiangnan Xia , Chenliang Li