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Dialogue systems, commonly known as chatbots, have gained escalating popularity in recent times due to their wide-spread applications in carrying out chit-chat conversations with users and task-oriented dialogues to accomplish various user…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Sahisnu Mazumder , Bing Liu

Searching for new information requires talking to the system. In this research, an Open-domain Conversational information search system has been developed. This system has been implemented using the TREC CAsT 2019 track, which is one of the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Omid Mohammadi Kia , Mahmood Neshati , Mahsa Soudi Alamdari

Conversational Information Seeking has evolved rapidly in the last few years with the development of Large Language Models providing the basis for interpreting and responding in a naturalistic manner to user requests. iKAT emphasizes the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Mohammad Aliannejadi , Zahra Abbasiantaeb , Shubham Chatterjee , Jeffery Dalton , Leif Azzopardi

Open-domain multi-turn conversations normally face the challenges of how to enrich and expand the content of the conversation. Recently, many approaches based on external knowledge are proposed to generate rich semantic and information…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Feifei Xu , Shanlin Zhou , Xinpeng Wang , Yunpu Ma , Wenkai Zhang , Zhisong Li

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in many real-world applications. Nonetheless, LLMs are often criticized for their tendency to produce hallucinations, wherein the models fabricate incorrect statements…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Qinggang Zhang , Junnan Dong , Hao Chen , Daochen Zha , Zailiang Yu , Xiao Huang

Knowledge-driven dialog system has recently made remarkable breakthroughs. Compared with general dialog systems, superior knowledge-driven dialog systems can generate more informative and knowledgeable responses with pre-provided knowledge.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Zhongtian Hu , Lifang Wang , Yangqi Chen , Yushuang Liu , Ronghan Li , Meng Zhao , Xinyu Lu , Zejun Jiang

Conversational Question Answering over Knowledge Graphs (KGs) combines the factual grounding of KG-based QA with the interactive nature of dialogue systems. KGs are widely used in enterprise and domain applications to provide structured,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Reham Omar , Abdelghny Orogat , Ibrahim Abdelaziz , Omij Mangukiya , Panos Kalnis , Essam Mansour

Spoken dialogue systems allow humans to interact with machines using natural speech. As such, they have many benefits. By using speech as the primary communication medium, a computer interface can facilitate swift, human-like acquisition of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-09-12 Milica Gasic , Nikola Mrksic , Lina M. Rojas-Barahona , Pei-Hao Su , Stefan Ultes , David Vandyke , Tsung-Hsien Wen , Steve Young

In previous research, knowledge-selection tasks mostly rely on language model-based methods or knowledge ranking. However, while approaches that rely on the language models take all knowledge as sequential input, knowledge does not contain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Jen-Chieh Yang , Jia-Yan Wu , Sung-Ping Chang , Ya-Chieh Huang

Conversational Question Answering (ConvQA) systems have emerged as a pivotal area within Natural Language Processing (NLP) by driving advancements that enable machines to engage in dynamic and context-aware conversations. These capabilities…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Manoj Madushanka Perera , Adnan Mahmood , Kasun Eranda Wijethilake , Fahmida Islam , Maryam Tahermazandarani , Quan Z. Sheng

We present GLM-Dialog, a large-scale language model (LLM) with 10B parameters capable of knowledge-grounded conversation in Chinese using a search engine to access the Internet knowledge. GLM-Dialog offers a series of applicable techniques…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Jing Zhang , Xiaokang Zhang , Daniel Zhang-Li , Jifan Yu , Zijun Yao , Zeyao Ma , Yiqi Xu , Haohua Wang , Xiaohan Zhang , Nianyi Lin , Sunrui Lu , Juanzi Li , Jie Tang

We present a knowledge-grounded dialog system developed for the ninth Dialog System Technology Challenge (DSTC9) Track 1 - Beyond Domain APIs: Task-oriented Conversational Modeling with Unstructured Knowledge Access. We leverage transfer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Weijie Zhang , Jiaoxuan Chen , Haipang Wu , Sanhui Wan , Gongfeng Li

Conversational User Interface (CUI) has become ubiquitous in everyday life, in consumer-focused products like Siri and Alexa or business-oriented solutions. Deep learning underlies many recent breakthroughs in dialogue systems but requires…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Igor Shalyminov

LLMs are frequently used tools for conversational generation. Without additional information LLMs can generate lower quality responses due to lacking relevant content and hallucinations, as well as the perception of poor emotional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Alex Clay , Ernesto Jiménez-Ruiz

This document presents a detailed description of the challenge on clarifying questions for dialogue systems (ClariQ). The challenge is organized as part of the Conversational AI challenge series (ConvAI3) at Search Oriented Conversational…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-25 Mohammad Aliannejadi , Julia Kiseleva , Aleksandr Chuklin , Jeff Dalton , Mikhail Burtsev

As one promising way to inquire about any particular information through a dialog with the bot, question answering dialog systems have gained increasing research interests recently. Designing interactive QA systems has always been a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Munazza Zaib , Dai Hoang Tran , Subhash Sagar , Adnan Mahmood , Wei E. Zhang , Quan Z. Sheng

In this study, we present an innovative fusion of language models and query analysis techniques to unlock cognition in artificial intelligence. The introduced open-source AI system seamlessly integrates a Chess engine with a language model,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Muntasir Adnan , Buddhi Gamage , Zhiwei Xu , Damith Herath , Carlos C. N. Kuhn

Large Language Models (LLMs) are revolutionizing the development of AI assistants capable of performing diverse tasks across domains. However, current state-of-the-art LLM-driven agents face significant challenges, including high…

Conversational AI systems are being used in personal devices, providing users with highly personalized content. Personalized knowledge graphs (PKGs) are one of the recently proposed methods to store users' information in a structured form…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Emma J. Gerritse , Faegheh Hasibi , Arjen P. de Vries

Campus climate surveys play a pivotal role in capturing how students, faculty, and staff experience university life, yet traditional methods frequently suffer from low participation and minimal follow-up. We present TigerGPT, a new AI…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Jinwen Tang , Songxi Chen , Yi Shang