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Most online information sources are text-based and in Western Languages like English. However, many new and first time users of the Internet are in contexts with low English proficiency and are unable to access vital information online.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Anurag Aribandi , Divyanshu Agrawal , Dipanjan Chakraborty

Clinical communication skills are essential for preparing healthcare professionals to provide equitable care across cultures. However, traditional training with simulated patients can be resource intensive and difficult to scale, especially…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Sandro Radovanović , Shuangyu Li

Interview chatbots engage users in a text-based conversation to draw out their views and opinions. It is, however, challenging to build effective interview chatbots that can handle user free-text responses to open-ended questions and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-02-06 Ziang Xiao , Michelle X. Zhou , Wenxi Chen , Huahai Yang , Changyan Chi

Artificially intelligent chatbot, such as ChatGPT, represents a recent and powerful advancement in the AI domain. Users prefer them for obtaining quick and precise answers, avoiding the usual hassle of clicking through multiple links in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Seraj A. M. Mostafa , Md Z. Islam , Mohammad Z. Islam , Fairose Jeehan , Saujanna Jafreen , Raihan U. Islam

Conversational AI chatbots are transforming industries by streamlining customer service, automating transactions, and enhancing user engagement. However, evaluating these systems remains a challenge, particularly in financial services,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Shailja Gupta , Rajesh Ranjan , Surya Narayan Singh

Task-based chatbots are software, typically embedded in real-world applications, that assist users in completing tasks through a conversational interface. As chatbots are gaining popularity, effectively assessing their quality has become…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Diego Clerissi , Elena Masserini , Daniela Micucci , Leonardo Mariani

Recent advances in speech synthesis have enabled many useful applications like audio directions in Google Maps, screen readers, and automated content generation on platforms like TikTok. However, these systems are mostly dominated by voices…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-28 Sewade Ogun , Abraham T. Owodunni , Tobi Olatunji , Eniola Alese , Babatunde Oladimeji , Tejumade Afonja , Kayode Olaleye , Naome A. Etori , Tosin Adewumi

Chatbots are conversational software applications designed to interact dialectically with users for a plethora of different purposes. Surprisingly, these colloquial agents have only recently been coupled with computational models of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Federico Castagna , Nadin Kokciyan , Isabel Sassoon , Simon Parsons , Elizabeth Sklar

We present the design, implementation and evaluation of a new cloud-based social chatbot called MyMigrationBot, that is deployed to Facebook. The system asks and answers questions related to user's personality traits and person-job…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Karol Chlasta , Paweł Sochaczewski , Izabela Grabowska , Agata Jastrzębowska

Building multi-turn information-seeking conversation systems is an important and challenging research topic. Although several advanced neural text matching models have been proposed for this task, they are generally not efficient for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-15 Minghui Qiu , Liu Yang , Feng Ji , Weipeng Zhao , Wei Zhou , Jun Huang , Haiqing Chen , W. Bruce Croft , Wei Lin

Chatbots, also known as conversational agents, have become ubiquitous, offering services for a multitude of domains. Unlike general-purpose chatbots, task-based chatbots are software designed to prioritize the completion of tasks of the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Diego Clerissi , Elena Masserini , Daniela Micucci , Leonardo Mariani

In the era of digital transformation, customer service is of paramount importance to the success of organizations, and to meet the growing demand for immediate responses and personalized assistance 24 hours a day, chatbots have become a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Valderrama Jonatan , Aguilar-Alonso Igor

We present a conversational model to apprise users with limited access to computational resources about water quality and real-time accessibility for a given location. We used natural language understanding through neural embedding driven…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Laing Lourens , Arijit Patra , Luqmaan Hassim , Faheem Sima , Avashlin Moodley , Pulkit Sharma

South Africa's escalating mental health crisis, compounded by limited access to culturally responsive care, calls for innovative and contextually grounded interventions. While large language models show considerable promise for mental…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Sontaga G. Forane , Absalom E. Ezugwu , Kevin Igwe , Karen van den Berg

Almost none of the 2,000+ languages spoken in Africa have widely available automatic speech recognition systems, and the required data is also only available for a few languages. We have experimented with two techniques which may provide…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Sandy Ritchie , You-Chi Cheng , Mingqing Chen , Rajiv Mathews , Daan van Esch , Bo Li , Khe Chai Sim

AI chatbots have made vast strides in technology improvement in recent years and are already operational in many industries. Advanced Natural Language Processing techniques, based on deep networks, efficiently process user requests to carry…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Nathan Dolbir , Triyasha Dastidar , Kaushik Roy

With a major focus on its history, difficulties, and promise, this research paper provides a thorough analysis of the chatbot technology environment as it exists today. It provides a very flexible chatbot system that makes use of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Shivom Aggarwal , Shourya Mehra , Pritha Mitra

Personalized dialogue systems are an essential step toward better human-machine interaction. Existing personalized dialogue agents rely on properly designed conversational datasets, which are mostly monolingual (e.g., English), which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-09 Zhaojiang Lin , Zihan Liu , Genta Indra Winata , Samuel Cahyawijaya , Andrea Madotto , Yejin Bang , Etsuko Ishii , Pascale Fung

Customer service is a setting that calls for empathy in live human agent responses. Recent advances have demonstrated how open-domain chatbots can be trained to demonstrate empathy when responding to live human utterances. We show that a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-06 Akshay Agarwal , Shashank Maiya , Sonu Aggarwal

AI chatbots are rapidly shaping how people encounter the news, yet no prior study has systematically measured how accurately these systems, with their proprietary search integrations and retrieval-synthesis pipelines, handle emerging facts…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Mirac Suzgun , Emily Shen , Federico Bianchi , Alexander Spangher , Thomas Icard , Daniel E. Ho , Dan Jurafsky , James Zou