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Conversational grounding is a collaborative mechanism for establishing mutual knowledge among participants engaged in a dialogue. This experimental study analyzes information-seeking conversations to investigate the capabilities of large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Kristiina Jokinen , Phillip Schneider , Taiga Mori

Collaboration is a task-oriented, high-level human behavior. In most cases, conversation serves as the primary medium for information exchange and coordination, making conversational data a valuable resource for the automatic analysis of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Yi Yu , Maria Boritchev , Chloé Clavel

Conversational interfaces are likely to become more efficient, intuitive and engaging way for human-computer interaction than today's text or touch-based interfaces. Current research efforts concerning conversational interfaces focus…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2017-09-18 Svitlana Vakulenko , Ilya Markov , Maarten de Rijke

Conversational generative AI systems such as ChatGPT are transforming how people seek and engage with information online. Unlike traditional search engines, these systems support open-ended, conversational inquiry, yet it remains unclear…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Yulin Yu , Yizhou Li , Siddharth Suri , Scott Counts

Conversational search is based on a user-system cooperation with the objective to solve an information-seeking task. In this report, we discuss the implication of such cooperation with the learning perspective from both user and system…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Sharon Oviatt , Laure Soulier

In an information-seeking conversation, a user may ask questions that are under-specified or unanswerable. An ideal agent would interact by initiating different response types according to the available knowledge sources. However, most…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Zeqiu Wu , Ryu Parish , Hao Cheng , Sewon Min , Prithviraj Ammanabrolu , Mari Ostendorf , Hannaneh Hajishirzi

This paper aims to provide a radical rundown on Conversation Search (ConvSearch), an approach to enhance the information retrieval method where users engage in a dialogue for the information-seeking tasks. In this survey, we predominantly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Naga Sai Krishna Adatrao , Gowtham Reddy Gadireddy , Jiho Noh

Building dialogue systems that naturally converse with humans is being an attractive and an active research domain. Multiple systems are being designed everyday and several datasets are being available. For this reason, it is being hard to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-31 Basma El Amel Boussaha , Nicolas Hernandez , Christine Jacquin , Emmanuel Morin

Recent digitisation efforts in natural history museums have produced large volumes of collection data, yet their scale and scientific complexity often hinder public access and understanding. Conventional data management tools, such as…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Yiyuan Wang , Andrew Johnston , Zoë Sadokierski , Rhiannon Stephens , Shane T. Ahyong

There has been growing interest in using neural networks and deep learning techniques to create dialogue systems. Conversational recommendation is an interesting setting for the scientific exploration of dialogue with natural language as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Raymond Li , Samira Kahou , Hannes Schulz , Vincent Michalski , Laurent Charlin , Chris Pal

Conversational AI systems are becoming famous in day to day lives. In this paper, we are trying to address the following key question: To identify whether design, as well as development efforts for search oriented conversational AI are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-09-15 Mahipal Jadeja , Neelanshi Varia

While previous conversational information-seeking (CIS) research has focused on passage retrieval, reranking, and query rewriting, the challenge of synthesizing retrieved information into coherent responses remains. The proposed research…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Weronika Łajewska

The experience and adoption of conversational search is tied to the accuracy and completeness of users' mental models -- their internal frameworks for understanding and predicting system behaviour. Thus, understanding these models can…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Chadha Degachi , Samuel Kernan Freire , Evangelos Niforatos , Gerd Kortuem

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

Despite advancements in conversational AI, language models encounter challenges to handle diverse conversational tasks, and existing dialogue dataset collections often lack diversity and comprehensiveness. To tackle these issues, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Jianguo Zhang , Kun Qian , Zhiwei Liu , Shelby Heinecke , Rui Meng , Ye Liu , Zhou Yu , Huan Wang , Silvio Savarese , Caiming Xiong

Dialogue summarization aims to condense the original dialogue into a shorter version covering salient information, which is a crucial way to reduce dialogue data overload. Recently, the promising achievements in both dialogue systems and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Xiachong Feng , Xiaocheng Feng , Bing Qin

Information-seeking dialogues span a wide range of questions, from simple factoid to complex queries that require exploring multiple facets and viewpoints. When performing exploratory searches in unfamiliar domains, users may lack…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Weronika Łajewska , Krisztian Balog , Damiano Spina , Johanne Trippas

The conversational search task aims to enable a user to resolve information needs via natural language dialogue with an agent. In this paper, we aim to develop a conceptual framework of the actions and intents of users and agents explaining…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Leif Azzopardi , Mateusz Dubiel , Martin Halvey , Jeffery Dalton

Most existing dialogue corpora and models have been designed to fit into 2 predominant categories : task-oriented dialogues portray functional goals, such as making a restaurant reservation or booking a plane ticket, while…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Armand Stricker , Patrick Paroubek

This paper presents a dataset collected from natural dialogs which enables to test the ability of dialog systems to learn new facts from user utterances throughout the dialog. This interactive learning will help with one of the most…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-05-17 Miroslav Vodolán , Filip Jurčíček