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Behavioral analysis of tutoring dialogues is essential for understanding student learning, yet manual coding remains a bottleneck. We present a methodology where LLM coding agents autonomously improve the prompts used by LLM classifiers to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Eason Chen , Isabel Wang , Nina Yuan , Sophia Judicke , Kayla Beigh , Xinyi Tang

Software development relies heavily on text-based communication, making sentiment analysis a valuable tool for understanding team dynamics and supporting trustworthy AI-driven analytics in requirements engineering. However, existing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Martin Obaidi , Marc Herrmann , Jil Klünder , Kurt Schneider

Synthetic users are cost-effective proxies for real users in the evaluation of conversational recommender systems. Large language models show promise in simulating human-like behavior, raising the question of their ability to represent a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Se-eun Yoon , Zhankui He , Jessica Maria Echterhoff , Julian McAuley

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

Generating responses following a desired style has great potentials to extend applications of open-domain dialogue systems, yet is refrained by lacking of parallel data for training. In this work, we explore the challenging task with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Ze Yang , Wei Wu , Can Xu , Xinnian Liang , Jiaqi Bai , Liran Wang , Wei Wang , Zhoujun Li

The use of large language models like ChatGPT in code review offers promising efficiency gains but also raises concerns about correctness and safety. Existing evaluation methods for code review generation either rely on automatic…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Robert Heumüller , Frank Ortmeier

Dialogue benchmarks are crucial in training and evaluating chatbots engaging in domain-specific conversations. Knowledge graphs (KGs) represent semantically rich and well-organized data spanning various domains, such as DBLP, DBpedia, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Reham Omar , Omij Mangukiya , Essam Mansour

Open-domain dialog systems (also known as chatbots) have increasingly drawn attention in natural language processing. Some of the recent work aims at incorporating affect information into sequence-to-sequence neural dialog modeling, making…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Yubo Xie , Ekaterina Svikhnushina , Pearl Pu

Open-domain dialogue systems have started to engage in continuous conversations with humans. Those dialogue systems are required to be adjusted to the human interlocutor and evaluated in terms of their perspective. However, it is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Yuma Tsuta , Naoki Yoshinaga , Shoetsu Sato , Masashi Toyoda

How should two language models interact to produce better code than either can alone? The conventional approach -- a reasoning model plans, a code specialist implements -- seems natural but fails: on HumanEval+, plan-then-code degrades…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Jan Miller

As interactive LLM-based applications are created and refined, model developers need to evaluate the quality of generated text along many possible axes. For simpler systems, human evaluation may be practical, but in complicated systems like…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Zhenwei Tang , Zhaoyan Liu , Rasa Hosseinzadeh , Tongzi Wu , Keyvan Golestan , Jesse C. Cresswell

Conversational agents are exploding in popularity. However, much work remains in the area of non goal-oriented conversations, despite significant growth in research interest over recent years. To advance the state of the art in…

Recent advances in neural sequence-to-sequence models have led to promising results for several language generation-based tasks, including dialogue response generation, summarization, and machine translation. However, these models are known…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Semih Yavuz , Abhinav Rastogi , Guan-Lin Chao , Dilek Hakkani-Tur

Statistical spoken dialogue systems usually rely on a single- or multi-domain dialogue model that is restricted in its capabilities of modelling complex dialogue structures, e.g., relations. In this work, we propose a novel dialogue model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-01-09 Stefan Ultes , Paweł\ Budzianowski , Iñigo Casanueva , Lina Rojas-Barahona , Bo-Hsiang Tseng , Yen-Chen Wu , Steve Young , Milica Gašić

The conversational recommendation system (CRS) has been criticized regarding its user experience in real-world scenarios, despite recent significant progress achieved in academia. Existing evaluation protocols for CRS may prioritize…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Chen Huang , Peixin Qin , Yang Deng , Wenqiang Lei , Jiancheng Lv , Tat-Seng Chua

Current open-domain conversational models can easily be made to talk in inadequate ways. Online learning from conversational feedback given by the conversation partner is a promising avenue for a model to improve and adapt, so as to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Megan Ung , Jing Xu , Y-Lan Boureau

Conversational question answering aims to provide natural-language answers to users in information-seeking conversations. Existing conversational QA benchmarks compare models with pre-collected human-human conversations, using ground-truth…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Huihan Li , Tianyu Gao , Manan Goenka , Danqi Chen

Empathetic dialogue is an indispensable part of building harmonious social relationships and contributes to the development of a helpful AI. Previous approaches are mainly based on fine small-scale language models. With the advent of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Yushan Qian , Wei-Nan Zhang , Ting Liu

The lack of time-efficient and reliable evaluation methods hamper the development of conversational dialogue systems (chatbots). Evaluations requiring humans to converse with chatbots are time and cost-intensive, put high cognitive demands…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Jan Deriu , Don Tuggener , Pius von Däniken , Jon Ander Campos , Alvaro Rodrigo , Thiziri Belkacem , Aitor Soroa , Eneko Agirre , Mark Cieliebak

Automatic evaluation of open-domain dialogs remains an unsolved problem. Moreover, existing methods do not correlate strongly with human annotations. This paper presents a new automated evaluation method using follow-ups: we measure the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Maxime De Bruyn , Ehsan Lotfi , Jeska Buhmann , Walter Daelemans