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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

Scaling training data and model parameters has long driven progress in large language models (LLMs), but this paradigm is increasingly constrained by the scarcity of high-quality data and diminishing returns from rising computational costs.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Changyue Wang , Weihang Su , Qingyao Ai , Yiqun Liu

Relevant language describing trends in data can be useful for generating summaries to help with readers' takeaways. However, the language employed in these often template-generated summaries tends to be simple, ranging from describing…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Vidya Setlur , Larry Birnbaum

Understanding spoken language is a highly complex problem, which can be decomposed into several simpler tasks. In this paper, we focus on Spoken Language Understanding (SLU), the module of spoken dialog systems responsible for extracting a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-06-22 Marco Dinarelli , Yoann Dupont , Isabelle Tellier

This paper presents an automated approach for interpretable feature recommendation for solving signal data analytics problems. The method has been tested by performing experiments on datasets in the domain of prognostics where…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-07 Snehasis Banerjee , Tanushyam Chattopadhyay , Ayan Mukherjee

Conversational recommender systems aim to interactively support online users in their information search and decision-making processes in an intuitive way. With the latest advances in voice-controlled devices, natural language processing,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Dietmar Jannach

Voice User Interfaces (VUIs) owing to recent developments in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Natural Language Processing (NLP), are becoming increasingly intuitive and functional. They are especially promising for older adults, also with…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Anna Jaskulska , Kinga Skorupska , Barbara Karpowicz , Cezary Biele , Jarosław Kowalski , Wiesław Kopeć

Images account for a significant part of user decisions in many application scenarios, such as product images in e-commerce, or user image posts in social networks. It is intuitive that user preferences on the visual patterns of image…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-02-01 Xu Chen , Yongfeng Zhang , Hongteng Xu , Yixin Cao , Zheng Qin , Hongyuan Zha

Humans have the ability to utilize visual cues, such as lip movements and visual scenes, to enhance auditory perception, particularly in noisy environments. However, current Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) or Audio-Visual Speech…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Lakshmipathi Balaji , Karan Singla

Spoken language understanding (SLU) system usually consists of various pipeline components, where each component heavily relies on the results of its upstream ones. For example, Intent detection (ID), and slot filling (SF) require its…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Di Wu , Yiren Chen , Liang Ding , Dacheng Tao

People speak aloud to externalize thoughts as one way to help clarify and organize them. Although Speech-to-text can capture these thoughts, transcripts can be difficult to read and make sense due to disfluencies, repetitions and potential…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Wengxi Li , Jingze Tian , Can Liu

Natural Language Image Editing (NLIE) aims to use natural language instructions to edit images. Since novices are inexperienced with image editing techniques, their instructions are often ambiguous and contain high-level abstractions that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-13 Tzu-Hsiang Lin , Alexander Rudnicky , Trung Bui , Doo Soon Kim , Jean Oh

The Natural Language to SQL (NL2SQL) technology provides non-expert users who are unfamiliar with databases the opportunity to use SQL for data analysis.Converting Natural Language to Business Intelligence (NL2BI) is a popular practical…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Jinqing Lian , Xinyi Liu , Yingxia Shao , Yang Dong , Ming Wang , Zhang Wei , Tianqi Wan , Ming Dong , Hailin Yan

The use of natural language interfaces (NLIs) to create charts is becoming increasingly popular due to the intuitiveness of natural language interactions. One key challenge in this approach is to accurately capture user intents and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Yuan Tian , Weiwei Cui , Dazhen Deng , Xinjing Yi , Yurun Yang , Haidong Zhang , Yingcai Wu

Consistency is one of the major challenges faced by dialogue agents. A human-like dialogue agent should not only respond naturally, but also maintain a consistent persona. In this paper, we exploit the advantages of natural language…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Haoyu Song , Wei-Nan Zhang , Jingwen Hu , Ting Liu

Recommender systems are crucial for personalizing user experiences but often depend on implicit feedback data, which can be noisy and misleading. Existing denoising studies involve incorporating auxiliary information or learning strategies…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Shuyao Wang , Zhi Zheng , Yongduo Sui , Hui Xiong

Language has always been one of humanity's defining characteristics. Visual Language Identification (VLI) is a relatively new field of research that is complex and largely understudied. In this paper, we present a preliminary study in which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Lucia Cascone , Michele Nappi , Fabio Narducci

Natural Language Inference (NLI) is the task of inferring whether the hypothesis can be justified by the given premise. Basically, we classify the hypothesis into three labels(entailment, neutrality and contradiction) given the premise. NLI…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Zijiang Yang

Conversational data is essential in psychology because it can help researchers understand individuals cognitive processes, emotions, and behaviors. Utterance labelling is a common strategy for analyzing this type of data. The development of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Maria Laricheva , Chiyu Zhang , Yan Liu , Guanyu Chen , Terence Tracey , Richard Young , Giuseppe Carenini

A Natural Language Interface (NLI) facilitates users to pose queries to retrieve information from a database without using any artificial language such as the Structured Query Language (SQL). Several applications in various domains…