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Modern spoken language understanding (SLU) systems rely on sophisticated semantic notions revealed in single utterances to detect intents and slots. However, they lack the capability of modeling multi-turn dynamics within a dialogue…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Ting-Wei Wu , Biing-Hwang Juang

Recent advances in open-domain dialogue systems rely on the success of neural models that are trained on large-scale data. However, collecting large-scale dialogue data is usually time-consuming and labor-intensive. To address this data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Rongsheng Zhang , Yinhe Zheng , Jianzhi Shao , Xiaoxi Mao , Yadong Xi , Minlie Huang

Dialogue disentanglement aims to group utterances in a long and multi-participant dialogue into threads. This is useful for discourse analysis and downstream applications such as dialogue response selection, where it can be the first step…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Ta-Chung Chi , Alexander I. Rudnicky

Learning high quality sentence embeddings from dialogues has drawn increasing attentions as it is essential to solve a variety of dialogue-oriented tasks with low annotation cost. Annotating and gathering utterance relationships in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Minsik Oh , Jiwei Li , Guoyin Wang

Current state-of-the-art neural dialogue models learn from human conversations following the data-driven paradigm. As such, a reliable training corpus is the crux of building a robust and well-behaved dialogue model. However, due to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-12 Hengyi Cai , Hongshen Chen , Yonghao Song , Cheng Zhang , Xiaofang Zhao , Dawei Yin

Recent neural models of dialogue generation offer great promise for generating responses for conversational agents, but tend to be shortsighted, predicting utterances one at a time while ignoring their influence on future outcomes. Modeling…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-09-30 Jiwei Li , Will Monroe , Alan Ritter , Michel Galley , Jianfeng Gao , Dan Jurafsky

Task-oriented dialogue systems are essential for applications ranging from customer service to personal assistants and are widely used across various industries. However, developing effective multi-domain systems remains a significant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Aman Gupta , Anirudh Ravichandran , Ziji Zhang , Swair Shah , Anurag Beniwal , Narayanan Sadagopan

Multi-party dialogue machine reading comprehension (MRC) brings tremendous challenge since it involves multiple speakers at one dialogue, resulting in intricate speaker information flows and noisy dialogue contexts. To alleviate such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Yiyang Li , Hai Zhao

Dialog management (DM) is a crucial component in a task-oriented dialog system. Given the dialog history, DM predicts the dialog state and decides the next action that the dialog agent should take. Recently, dialog policy learning has been…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Yinpei Dai , Huihua Yu , Yixuan Jiang , Chengguang Tang , Yongbin Li , Jian Sun

Evaluating the quality of a dialogue interaction between two agents is a difficult task, especially in open-domain chit-chat style dialogue. There have been recent efforts to develop automatic dialogue evaluation metrics, but most of them…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Koustuv Sinha , Prasanna Parthasarathi , Jasmine Wang , Ryan Lowe , William L. Hamilton , Joelle Pineau

Dialogue Act Recognition (DAR) is a challenging problem in dialogue interpretation, which aims to attach semantic labels to utterances and characterize the speaker's intention. Currently, many existing approaches formulate the DAR problem…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-11-16 Zheqian Chen , Rongqin Yang , Zhou Zhao , Deng Cai , Xiaofei He

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown remarkable reasoning capabilities in mathematical and scientific tasks. To enhance complex reasoning, multi-agent systems have been proposed to harness the collective intelligence of LLM agents.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Zhenyu Bi , Meng Lu , Yang Li , Swastik Roy , Weijie Guan , Morteza Ziyadi , Xuan Wang

There is a growing interest in improving the conversational ability of models by filtering the raw dialogue corpora. Previous filtering strategies usually rely on a scoring method to assess and discard samples from one perspective, enabling…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Yiwei Li , Bin Sun , Shaoxiong Feng , Kan Li

Detecting miscommunication in human-robot interaction is a critical function for maintaining user engagement and trust. While humans effortlessly detect communication errors in conversations through both verbal and non-verbal cues, robots…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Ruben Janssens , Jens De Bock , Sofie Labat , Eva Verhelst , Veronique Hoste , Tony Belpaeme

Emotion and intent recognition from speech is essential and has been widely investigated in human-computer interaction. The rapid development of social media platforms, chatbots, and other technologies has led to a large volume of speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Zhao Ren , Rathi Adarshi Rammohan , Kevin Scheck , Sheng Li , Tanja Schultz

Dropped Pronouns (DP) in which pronouns are frequently dropped in the source language but should be retained in the target language are challenge in machine translation. In response to this problem, we propose a semi-supervised approach to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-04-22 Longyue Wang , Zhaopeng Tu , Xiaojun Zhang , Hang Li , Andy Way , Qun Liu

While multi-party conversations are often less structured than monologues and documents, they are implicitly organized by semantic level correlations across the interactive turns, and dialogue discourse analysis can be applied to predict…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Zhengyuan Liu , Nancy F. Chen

State-of-the-art dialogue models still often stumble with regards to factual accuracy and self-contradiction. Anecdotally, they have been observed to fail to maintain character identity throughout discourse; and more specifically, may take…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Kurt Shuster , Jack Urbanek , Arthur Szlam , Jason Weston

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

We present a multi-task learning framework to enable the training of one universal incremental dialogue processing model with four tasks of disfluency detection, language modelling, part-of-speech tagging, and utterance segmentation in a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-16 Morteza Rohanian , Julian Hough