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Large Language Models (LLMs) have become a popular interface for human-AI interaction, supporting information seeking and task assistance through natural, multi-turn dialogue. To respond to users within multi-turn dialogues, the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Fengran Mo , Yifan Gao , Sha Li , Hansi Zeng , Xin Liu , Zhaoxuan Tan , Xian Li , Jianshu Chen , Dakuo Wang , Meng Jiang

Intelligent personal assistant systems with either text-based or voice-based conversational interfaces are becoming increasingly popular around the world. Retrieval-based conversation models have the advantages of returning fluent and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-05-10 Liu Yang , Minghui Qiu , Chen Qu , Jiafeng Guo , Yongfeng Zhang , W. Bruce Croft , Jun Huang , Haiqing Chen

Open-domain human-computer conversation has attracted much attention in the field of NLP. Contrary to rule- or template-based domain-specific dialog systems, open-domain conversation usually requires data-driven approaches, which can be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-25 Yiping Song , Rui Yan , Xiang Li , Dongyan Zhao , Ming Zhang

As a cornerstone of modern information access, search engines have become indispensable in everyday life. With the rapid advancements in AI and natural language processing (NLP) technologies, particularly large language models (LLMs),…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Fengran Mo , Kelong Mao , Ziliang Zhao , Hongjin Qian , Haonan Chen , Yiruo Cheng , Xiaoxi Li , Yutao Zhu , Zhicheng Dou , Jian-Yun Nie

The development of artificial agents able to learn through dialog without domain restrictions has the potential to allow machines to learn how to perform tasks in a similar manner to humans and change how we relate to them. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Eugénio Ribeiro , Ricardo Ribeiro , David Martins de Matos

For dialogue response generation, traditional generative models generate responses solely from input queries. Such models rely on insufficient information for generating a specific response since a certain query could be answered in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-02 Deng Cai , Yan Wang , Victoria Bi , Zhaopeng Tu , Xiaojiang Liu , Wai Lam , Shuming Shi

When you have a question, the most effective way to have the question answered is to directly connect with experts on the topic and have a conversation with them. Prior to the invention of writing, this was the only way. Although effective,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Jimmy Lin , Pankaj Gupta , Will Horn , Gilad Mishne

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

Scarcity of training data for task-oriented dialogue systems is a well known problem that is usually tackled with costly and time-consuming manual data annotation. An alternative solution is to rely on automatic text generation which,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Stéphane d'Ascoli , Alice Coucke , Francesco Caltagirone , Alexandre Caulier , Marc Lelarge

Patients have long sought health information online, and increasingly, they are turning to generative AI to answer their health-related queries. Given the high stakes of the medical domain, techniques like retrieval-augmented generation and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Lionel Wong , Ayman Ali , Raymond Xiong , Shannon Zeijang Shen , Yoon Kim , Monica Agrawal

Recent work suggests that large language models enhanced with retrieval-augmented generation are easily influenced by the order, in which the retrieved documents are presented to the model when solving tasks such as question answering (QA).…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Tianyu Liu , Jirui Qi , Paul He , Arianna Bisazza , Mrinmaya Sachan , Ryan Cotterell

Open-ended human learning and information-seeking are increasingly mediated by digital assistants. However, such systems often ignore the user's pre-existing knowledge. Assuming a correlation between engagement and user responses such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Pedro Rodriguez , Paul Crook , Seungwhan Moon , Zhiguang Wang

Information-seeking dialogue systems, including knowledge identification and response generation, aim to respond to users with fluent, coherent, and informative responses based on users' needs, which. To tackle this challenge, we utilize…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Etsuko Ishii , Yan Xu , Genta Indra Winata , Zhaojiang Lin , Andrea Madotto , Zihan Liu , Peng Xu , Pascale Fung

In this paper, we investigate the use of large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT for document-grounded response generation in the context of information-seeking dialogues. For evaluation, we use the MultiDoc2Dial corpus of task-oriented…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Norbert Braunschweiler , Rama Doddipatla , Simon Keizer , Svetlana Stoyanchev

Personalized dialogue generation, focusing on generating highly tailored responses by leveraging persona profiles and dialogue context, has gained significant attention in conversational AI applications. However, persona profiles, a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Qiushi Huang , Shuai Fu , Xubo Liu , Wenwu Wang , Tom Ko , Yu Zhang , Lilian Tang

Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate strong conversational abilities. In this Working Paper, we study them in the context of debating in two ways: their ability to perform in a structured debate along with a dataset of arguments to use…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Anthony Miyaguchi , Conor Johnston , Aaryan Potdar

Conversational and task-oriented dialogue systems aim to interact with the user using natural responses through multi-modal interfaces, such as text or speech. These desired responses are in the form of full-length natural answers generated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Vaishali Pal , Manish Shrivastava , Laurent Besacier

Most prior work on task-oriented dialogue systems are restricted to limited coverage of domain APIs. However, users oftentimes have requests that are out of the scope of these APIs. This work focuses on responding to these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Di Jin , Seokhwan Kim , Dilek Hakkani-Tur

Recent progress on neural approaches for language processing has triggered a resurgence of interest on building intelligent open-domain chatbots. However, even the state-of-the-art neural chatbots cannot produce satisfying responses for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Behnam Hedayatnia , Di Jin , Yang Liu , Dilek Hakkani-Tur

Intelligent personal assistant systems that are able to have multi-turn conversations with human users are becoming increasingly popular. Most previous research has been focused on using either retrieval-based or generation-based methods to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Liu Yang , Junjie Hu , Minghui Qiu , Chen Qu , Jianfeng Gao , W. Bruce Croft , Xiaodong Liu , Yelong Shen , Jingjing Liu