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One of the hardest problems in the area of Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence is automatically generating language that is coherent and understandable to humans. Teaching machines how to converse as humans do falls…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Sashank Santhanam , Samira Shaikh

In order to build dialogue systems to tackle the ambitious task of holding social conversations, we argue that we need a data driven approach that includes insight into human conversational chit chat, and which incorporates different…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-12 Kevin K. Bowden , Shereen Oraby , Amita Misra , Jiaqi Wu , Stephanie Lukin

In this paper, we propose a generative model which learns the relationship between language and human action in order to generate a human action sequence given a sentence describing human behavior. The proposed generative model is a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-10-25 Hyemin Ahn , Timothy Ha , Yunho Choi , Hwiyeon Yoo , Songhwai Oh

Information-seeking conversation, which aims to help users gather information through conversation, has achieved great progress in recent years. However, the research is still stymied by the scarcity of training data. To alleviate this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Siheng Li , Cheng Yang , Yichun Yin , Xinyu Zhu , Zesen Cheng , Lifeng Shang , Xin Jiang , Qun Liu , Yujiu Yang

Question answering (QA) is an important aspect of open-domain conversational agents, garnering specific research focus in the conversational QA (ConvQA) subtask. One notable limitation of recent ConvQA efforts is the response being answer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Ashutosh Baheti , Alan Ritter , Kevin Small

Conversational Speech Synthesis (CSS) aims to express a target utterance with the proper speaking style in a user-agent conversation setting. Existing CSS methods employ effective multi-modal context modeling techniques to achieve empathy…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Rui Liu , Yifan Hu , Yi Ren , Xiang Yin , Haizhou Li

We introduce a new approach to generative data-driven dialogue systems (e.g. chatbots) called TransferTransfo which is a combination of a Transfer learning based training scheme and a high-capacity Transformer model. Fine-tuning is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-05 Thomas Wolf , Victor Sanh , Julien Chaumond , Clement Delangue

In this paper, we present ConvoGen: an innovative framework for generating synthetic conversational data using multi-agent systems. Our method leverages few-shot learning and introduces iterative sampling from a dynamically updated few-shot…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Reem Gody , Mahmoud Goudy , Ahmed Y. Tawfik

We study the staggered introduction of a generative AI-based conversational assistant using data from 5,172 customer support agents. Access to AI assistance increases worker productivity, as measured by issues resolved per hour, by 15\% on…

General Economics · Economics 2024-11-07 Erik Brynjolfsson , Danielle Li , Lindsey Raymond

Large Language Models can carry out human-like conversations in diverse settings, responding to user requests for tasks and knowledge. However, existing conversational agents implemented with LLMs often struggle with hallucination,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Harshit Joshi , Shicheng Liu , James Chen , Robert Weigle , Monica S. Lam

We present a novel response generation system that can be trained end to end on large quantities of unstructured Twitter conversations. A neural network architecture is used to address sparsity issues that arise when integrating contextual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-06-23 Alessandro Sordoni , Michel Galley , Michael Auli , Chris Brockett , Yangfeng Ji , Margaret Mitchell , Jian-Yun Nie , Jianfeng Gao , Bill Dolan

Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) has rapidly become a powerful tool, capable of generating various types of data, such as images and text. However, despite the significant advancement of generative AI, time series generative AI…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Jaeyun Woo , Jiseok Lee , Brian Kenji Iwana

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have gathered a lot of attention from the computer vision community, yielding impressive results for image generation. Advances in the adversarial generation of natural language from noise however are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-06-01 Sai Rajeswar , Sandeep Subramanian , Francis Dutil , Christopher Pal , Aaron Courville

New systems employ Machine Learning to sift through large knowledge sources, creating flexible Large Language Models. These models discern context and predict sequential information in various communication forms. Generative AI, leveraging…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Ted Selker

Generative commonsense reasoning is the capability of a language model to generate a sentence with a given concept-set that is based on commonsense knowledge. However, generative language models still struggle to provide outputs, and the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Jaehyung Seo , Chanjun Park , Sugyeong Eo , Hyeonseok Moon , Heuiseok Lim

Emotional language generation is one of the keys to human-like artificial intelligence. Humans use different type of emotions depending on the situation of the conversation. Emotions also play an important role in mediating the engagement…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Sashank Santhanam , Samira Shaikh

One of the long-term goals of artificial intelligence is to build an agent that can communicate intelligently with human in natural language. Most existing work on natural language learning relies heavily on training over a pre-collected…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-05-30 Haichao Zhang , Haonan Yu , Wei Xu

Generative AI offers significant opportunities for language learning. Tools like ChatGPT can provide informal second language practice through chats in written or voice forms, with the learner specifying through prompts conversational…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Robert Godwin-Jones

The migration of conversational AI agents across different embodiments in order to maintain the continuity of the task has been recently explored to further improve user experience. However, these migratable agents lack contextual…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Ravi Tejwani , Boris Katz , Cynthia Breazeal

In this paper, we propose an end-to-end sentiment-aware conversational agent based on two models: a reply sentiment prediction model, which leverages the context of the dialogue to predict an appropriate sentiment for the agent to express…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Isabel Dias , Ricardo Rei , Patrícia Pereira , Luisa Coheur