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Storytelling serves many different social functions, e.g. stories are used to persuade, share troubles, establish shared values, learn social behaviors, and entertain. Moreover, stories are often told conversationally through dialog, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-01-08 Kevin K. Bowden , Grace I. Lin , Lena I. Reed , Marilyn A. Walker

In modern dialogue systems, the ability to implicitly infer user backgrounds from conversations and leverage this information for personalized assistance is crucial. However, the scarcity of high-quality data remains a fundamental challenge…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Bo Peng , Zhiheng Wang , Heyang Gong , Chaochao Lu

Task-oriented conversational systems are essential for efficiently addressing diverse user needs, yet their development requires substantial amounts of high-quality conversational data that is challenging and costly to obtain. While large…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Zhefan Wang , Ning Geng , Zhiqiang Guo , Weizhi Ma , Min Zhang

Conversational AI is rapidly becoming a primary interface for information seeking and decision making, yet most systems still assume idealized users. In practice, human reasoning is bounded by limited attention, uneven knowledge, and…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Jiqun Liu

With the rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI), digital humans have attracted more and more attention and are expected to achieve a wide range of applications in several industries. Then, most of the existing digital humans…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Yingjie Zhou , Yaodong Chen , Kaiyue Bi , Lian Xiong , Hui Liu

Personalised response generation enables generating human-like responses by means of assigning the generator a social identity. However, pragmatics theory suggests that human beings adjust the way of speaking based on not only who they are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Guanyi Chen , Yinhe Zheng , Yupei Du

Knowledge-grounded dialogue (KGD) learns to generate an informative response based on a given dialogue context and external knowledge (\emph{e.g.}, knowledge graphs; KGs). Recently, the emergence of large language models (LLMs) and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Jiaan Wang , Jianfeng Qu , Kexin Wang , Zhixu Li , Wen Hua , Ximing Li , An Liu

This study explores linguistic differences between human and LLM-generated dialogues, using 19.5K dialogues generated by ChatGPT-3.5 as a companion to the EmpathicDialogues dataset. The research employs Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Morgan Sandler , Hyesun Choung , Arun Ross , Prabu David

This paper tackles the challenging task of evaluating socially situated conversational robots and presents a novel objective evaluation approach that relies on multimodal user behaviors. In this study, our main focus is on assessing the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Koji Inoue , Divesh Lala , Keiko Ochi , Tatsuya Kawahara , Gabriel Skantze

The ubiquitous nature of chatbots and their interaction with users generate an enormous amount of data. Can we improve chatbots using this data? A self-feeding chatbot improves itself by asking natural language feedback when a user is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Makesh Narsimhan Sreedhar , Kun Ni , Siva Reddy

In this paper, we extend the persona-based sequence-to-sequence (Seq2Seq) neural network conversation model to a multi-turn dialogue scenario by modifying the state-of-the-art hredGAN architecture to simultaneously capture utterance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-27 Oluwatobi Olabiyi , Anish Khazane , Alan Salimov , Erik T. Mueller

As users increasingly expect LLMs to align with their preferences, personalized information becomes valuable. However, personalized information can be a double-edged sword: it can improve interaction but may compromise objectivity and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Xiaoyou Liu , Xinyi Mou , Shengbin Yue , Liang Wang , Yuqing Wang , Qiexiang Wang , Tianrui Qin , Zhongyu Wei

Driven by the rapid advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs), particularly Audio-LLMs and Omni-models, spoken dialogue systems have evolved significantly, progressively narrowing the gap between human-machine and human-human…

Recent advancements in conversational systems have significantly enhanced human-machine interactions across various domains. However, training these systems is challenging due to the scarcity of specialized dialogue data. Traditionally,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Heydar Soudani , Roxana Petcu , Evangelos Kanoulas , Faegheh Hasibi

A good empathetic dialogue system should first track and understand a user's emotion and then reply with an appropriate emotion. However, current approaches to this task either focus on improving the understanding of users' emotion or on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Yuhan Liu , Jun Gao , Jiachen Du , Lanjun Zhou , Ruifeng Xu

In this paper, we propose Inverse Adversarial Training (IAT) algorithm for training neural dialogue systems to avoid generic responses and model dialogue history better. In contrast to standard adversarial training algorithms, IAT…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Wangchunshu Zhou , Qifei Li , Chenle Li

Recent neural models of dialogue generation offer great promise for generating responses for conversational agents, but tend to be shortsighted, predicting utterances one at a time while ignoring their influence on future outcomes. Modeling…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-09-30 Jiwei Li , Will Monroe , Alan Ritter , Michel Galley , Jianfeng Gao , Dan Jurafsky

Humans are easily conscious of small differences in an android robot's (AR's) behaviors and utterances, resulting in treating the AR as not-human, while ARs treat us as humans. Thus, there exists asymmetric communication between ARs and…

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have enabled human-like social simulations at unprecedented scale and fidelity, offering new opportunities for computational social science. A key challenge, however, is the construction of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Zhengyu Hu , Jianxun Lian , Zheyuan Xiao , Max Xiong , Yuxuan Lei , Tianfu Wang , Kaize Ding , Ziang Xiao , Nicholas Jing Yuan , Xing Xie

In this paper, a novel Generation-Evaluation framework is developed for multi-turn conversations with the objective of letting both participants know more about each other. For the sake of rational knowledge utilization and coherent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Siqi Bao , Huang He , Fan Wang , Rongzhong Lian , Hua Wu