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In cognitive science and linguistic theory, dialogue is not seen as a chain of independent utterances but rather as a joint activity sustained by coherence, consistency, and shared understanding. However, many systems for open-domain and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Tianyi Zhang , David Traum

In dyadic interactions, humans communicate their intentions and state of mind using verbal and non-verbal cues, where multiple different facial reactions might be appropriate in response to a specific speaker behaviour. Then, how to develop…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Siyang Song , Micol Spitale , Cheng Luo , Cristina Palmero , German Barquero , Hengde Zhu , Sergio Escalera , Michel Valstar , Tobias Baur , Fabien Ringeval , Elisabeth Andre , Hatice Gunes

Conversational recommender systems have attracted immense attention recently. The most recent approaches rely on neural models trained on recorded dialogs between humans, implementing an end-to-end learning process. These systems are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Ahtsham Manzoor , Dietmar Jannach

Maintaining a consistent persona is essential for building a human-like conversational model. However, the lack of attention to the partner makes the model more egocentric: they tend to show their persona by all means such as twisting the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Chen Xu , Piji Li , Wei Wang , Haoran Yang , Siyun Wang , Chuangbai Xiao

Researches on dialogue empathy aim to endow an agent with the capacity of accurate understanding and proper responding for emotions. Existing models for empathetic dialogue generation focus on the emotion flow in one direction, that is,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Lei Shen , Jinchao Zhang , Jiao Ou , Xiaofang Zhao , Jie Zhou

The Visual Dialogue task requires an agent to engage in a conversation about an image with a human. It represents an extension of the Visual Question Answering task in that the agent needs to answer a question about an image, but it needs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-22 Qi Wu , Peng Wang , Chunhua Shen , Ian Reid , Anton van den Hengel

In real-world scenarios, human dialogues are multi-round and diverse. Furthermore, human instructions can be unclear and human responses are unrestricted. Interactive robots face difficulties in understanding human intents and generating…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Zhe Zhang , Wei Chai , Jiankun Wang

This paper proposes a dually interactive matching network (DIM) for presenting the personalities of dialogue agents in retrieval-based chatbots. This model develops from the interactive matching network (IMN) which models the matching…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Jia-Chen Gu , Zhen-Hua Ling , Xiaodan Zhu , Quan Liu

Most existing works on dialog systems only consider conversation content while neglecting the personality of the user the bot is interacting with, which begets several unsolved issues. In this paper, we present a personalized end-to-end…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Liangchen Luo , Wenhao Huang , Qi Zeng , Zaiqing Nie , Xu Sun

Personalized dialogue systems explore the problem of generating responses that are consistent with the user's personality, which has raised much attention in recent years. Existing personalized dialogue systems have tried to extract user…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Hanxun Zhong , Zhicheng Dou , Yutao Zhu , Hongjin Qian , Ji-Rong Wen

Self-anthropomorphism in robots manifests itself through their display of human-like characteristics in dialogue, such as expressing preferences and emotions. Our study systematically analyzes self-anthropomorphic expression within various…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Yu Li , Devamanyu Hazarika , Di Jin , Julia Hirschberg , Yang Liu

We present a large, tunable neural conversational response generation model, DialoGPT (dialogue generative pre-trained transformer). Trained on 147M conversation-like exchanges extracted from Reddit comment chains over a period spanning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Yizhe Zhang , Siqi Sun , Michel Galley , Yen-Chun Chen , Chris Brockett , Xiang Gao , Jianfeng Gao , Jingjing Liu , Bill Dolan

Large Language Models (LLMs), which simulate human users, are frequently employed to evaluate chatbots in applications such as tutoring and customer service. Effective evaluation necessitates a high degree of human-like diversity within…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Xiaoyu Lin , Xinkai Yu , Ankit Aich , Salvatore Giorgi , Lyle Ungar

The personalized dialogue explores the consistent relationship between dialogue generation and personality. Existing personalized dialogue agents model persona profiles from three resources: sparse or dense persona descriptions and dialogue…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Yihong Tang , Bo Wang , Miao Fang , Dongming Zhao , Kun Huang , Ruifang He , Yuexian Hou

In human-robot interactions, human and robot agents maintain internal mental models of their environment, their shared task, and each other. The accuracy of these representations depends on each agent's ability to perform theory of mind,…

Persona-based dialogue generation is an important milestone towards building conversational artificial intelligence. Despite the ever-improving capabilities of large language models (LLMs), effectively integrating persona fidelity in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Arpita Saggar , Jonathan C. Darling , Vania Dimitrova , Duygu Sarikaya , David C. Hogg

Prediction of human actions in social interactions has important applications in the design of social robots or artificial avatars. In this paper, we focus on a unimodal representation of interactions and propose to tackle interaction…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Louis Airale , Dominique Vaufreydaz , Xavier Alameda-Pineda

Non-goal oriented dialog agents (i.e. chatbots) aim to produce varying and engaging conversations with a user; however, they typically exhibit either inconsistent personality across conversations or the average personality of all users.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Alex Boyd , Raul Puri , Mohammad Shoeybi , Mostofa Patwary , Bryan Catanzaro

Optimizing language models for use in conversational agents requires large quantities of example dialogues. Increasingly, these dialogues are synthetically generated by using powerful large language models (LLMs), especially in domains…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Joachim De Baer , A. Seza Doğruöz , Thomas Demeester , Chris Develder

Dialogue systems in the form of chatbots and personal assistants are being increasingly integrated into people's lives. Modern dialogue systems may consider adopting anthropomorphic personas, mimicking societal demographic groups to appear…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Emily Sheng , Josh Arnold , Zhou Yu , Kai-Wei Chang , Nanyun Peng