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We introduce doc2dial, a new dataset of goal-oriented dialogues that are grounded in the associated documents. Inspired by how the authors compose documents for guiding end users, we first construct dialogue flows based on the content…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Song Feng , Hui Wan , Chulaka Gunasekara , Siva Sankalp Patel , Sachindra Joshi , Luis A. Lastras

Effective customer support requires not only accurate problem solving but also structured and empathetic communication aligned with professional standards. However, existing dialogue datasets often lack strategic guidance, and real-world…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Jie Zhu , Huaixia Dou , Junhui Li , Lifan Guo , Feng Chen , Chi Zhang , Fang Kong

Sharing ideas through communication with peers is the primary mode of human interaction. Consequently, extensive research has been conducted in the area of conversational AI, leading to an increase in the availability and diversity of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Shivani Kumar , Sumit Bhatia , Milan Aggarwal , Tanmoy Chakraborty

This paper introduces a simple yet effective data-centric approach for the task of improving persona-conditioned dialogue agents. Prior model-centric approaches unquestioningly depend on the raw crowdsourced benchmark datasets such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Minju Kim , Beong-woo Kwak , Youngwook Kim , Hong-in Lee , Seung-won Hwang , Jinyoung Yeo

In recent research on dialogue systems and corpora, there has been a significant focus on two distinct categories: task-oriented (TOD) and open-domain (chit-chat) dialogues. TOD systems aim to satisfy specific user goals, such as finding a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Wen-Yu Chang , Yun-Nung Chen

Task-oriented dialog(TOD) aims to assist users in achieving specific goals through multi-turn conversation. Recently, good results have been obtained based on large pre-trained models. However, the labeled-data scarcity hinders the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-26 Zhitong Yang , Xing Ma , Anqi Liu , Zheyu Zhang

In a typical customer service chat scenario, customers contact a support center to ask for help or raise complaints, and human agents try to solve the issues. In most cases, at the end of the conversation, agents are asked to write a short…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Guy Feigenblat , Chulaka Gunasekara , Benjamin Sznajder , Sachindra Joshi , David Konopnicki , Ranit Aharonov

Many everyday tasks ranging from fixing appliances, cooking recipes to car maintenance require expert knowledge, especially when tasks are complex and multi-step. Despite growing interest in AI agents, there is a scarcity of dialogue-video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Lavisha Aggarwal , Vikas Bahirwani , Lin Li , Andrea Colaco

Previous dialogue summarization datasets mainly focus on open-domain chitchat dialogues, while summarization datasets for the broadly used task-oriented dialogue haven't been explored yet. Automatically summarizing such task-oriented…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Lulu Zhao , Fujia Zheng , Keqing He , Weihao Zeng , Yuejie Lei , Huixing Jiang , Wei Wu , Weiran Xu , Jun Guo , Fanyu Meng

A major bottleneck for building statistical spoken dialogue systems for new domains and applications is the need for large amounts of training data. To address this problem, we adopt the multi-dimensional approach to dialogue management and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Simon Keizer , Norbert Braunschweiler , Svetlana Stoyanchev , Rama Doddipatla

One challenge for dialogue agents is recognizing feelings in the conversation partner and replying accordingly, a key communicative skill. While it is straightforward for humans to recognize and acknowledge others' feelings in a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-30 Hannah Rashkin , Eric Michael Smith , Margaret Li , Y-Lan Boureau

Existing dialogue corpora and models are typically designed under two disjoint motives: while task-oriented systems focus on achieving functional goals (e.g., booking hotels), open-domain chatbots aim at making socially engaging…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Kai Sun , Seungwhan Moon , Paul Crook , Stephen Roller , Becka Silvert , Bing Liu , Zhiguang Wang , Honglei Liu , Eunjoon Cho , Claire Cardie

While multimodal conversation agents are gaining importance in several domains such as retail, travel etc., deep learning research in this area has been limited primarily due to the lack of availability of large-scale, open chatlogs. To…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-02-01 Amrita Saha , Mitesh Khapra , Karthik Sankaranarayanan

Robust task-oriented spoken dialogue agents require exposure to the full diversity of how people interact through speech. Building spoken user simulators that address this requires large-scale spoken task-oriented dialogue (TOD) data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Jonggeun Lee , Junseong Pyo , Jeongmin Park , Yohan Jo

Most prior work in dialogue modeling has been on written conversations mostly because of existing data sets. However, written dialogues are not sufficient to fully capture the nature of spoken conversations as well as the potential speech…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Seokhwan Kim , Yang Liu , Di Jin , Alexandros Papangelis , Karthik Gopalakrishnan , Behnam Hedayatnia , Dilek Hakkani-Tur

Large Language Models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in open-domain dialogues. However, current methods exhibit suboptimal performance in service dialogues, as they rely on noisy, low-quality human conversation data. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Yuqin Dai , Ning Gao , Wei Zhang , Jie Wang , Zichen Luo , Jinpeng Wang , Yujie Wang , Ruiyuan Wu , Chaozheng Wang

In order to build dialogue systems to tackle the ambitious task of holding social conversations, we argue that we need a data driven approach that includes insight into human conversational chit chat, and which incorporates different…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-12 Kevin K. Bowden , Shereen Oraby , Amita Misra , Jiaqi Wu , Stephanie Lukin

Automated service agents require well-structured workflows to provide consistent and accurate responses to customer queries. However, these workflows are often undocumented, and their automatic extraction from conversations remains…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Prafulla Kumar Choubey , Xiangyu Peng , Shilpa Bhagavath , Caiming Xiong , Shiva Kumar Pentyala , Chien-Sheng Wu

Existing studies in dialogue system research mostly treat task-oriented dialogue and chit-chat as separate domains. Towards building a human-like assistant that can converse naturally and seamlessly with users, it is important to build a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Zhiyu Chen , Bing Liu , Seungwhan Moon , Chinnadhurai Sankar , Paul Crook , William Yang Wang

The underlying difference of linguistic patterns between general text and task-oriented dialogue makes existing pre-trained language models less useful in practice. In this work, we unify nine human-human and multi-turn task-oriented…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-02 Chien-Sheng Wu , Steven Hoi , Richard Socher , Caiming Xiong