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Conversational assistants are being progressively adopted by the general population. However, they are not capable of handling complicated information-seeking tasks that involve multiple turns of information exchange. Due to the limited…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-01-14 Chen Qu , Liu Yang , Bruce Croft , Yongfeng Zhang , Johanne R. Trippas , Minghui Qiu

Explainable AI Planning (XAIP) aims to develop AI agents that can effectively explain their decisions and actions to human users, fostering trust and facilitating human-AI collaboration. A key challenge in XAIP is model reconciliation,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Yinxu Tang , Stylianos Loukas Vasileiou , William Yeoh

We propose a novel preference alignment framework for improving spoken dialogue models on real-time conversations from user interactions. Current preference learning methods primarily focus on text-based language models, and are not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Anne Wu , Laurent Mazaré , Neil Zeghidour , Alexandre Défossez

Open-domain dialogue systems have seen remarkable advancements with the development of large language models (LLMs). Nonetheless, most existing dialogue systems predominantly focus on brief single-session interactions, neglecting the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Hao Li , Chenghao Yang , An Zhang , Yang Deng , Xiang Wang , Tat-Seng Chua

Understanding and classifying user personas is critical for delivering effective personalization. While persona information offers valuable insights, its full potential is realized only when contextualized, linking user characteristics with…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Saleh Afzoon , Amin Beheshti , Usman Naseem

Large Language Model (LLM) empowered agents have recently emerged as advanced paradigms that exhibit impressive capabilities in a wide range of domains and tasks. Despite their potential, current LLM agents often adopt a one-size-fits-all…

Maintaining consistent personas is essential for dialogue agents. Although tremendous advancements have been brought, the limited-scale of annotated persona-dense data are still barriers towards training robust and consistent persona-based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Haoyu Song , Yan Wang , Kaiyan Zhang , Wei-Nan Zhang , Ting Liu

Producing natural and accurate responses like human beings is the ultimate goal of intelligent dialogue agents. So far, most of the past works concentrate on selecting or generating one pertinent and fluent response according to current…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Zehao Lin , Shaobo Cui , Guodun Li , Xiaoming Kang , Feng Ji , Fenglin Li , Zhongzhou Zhao , Haiqing Chen , Yin Zhang

Artificial agents are increasingly central to complex interactions and decision-making tasks, yet aligning their behaviors with desired human values remains an open challenge. In this work, we investigate how human-like personality traits…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Seungwon Lim , Seungbeen Lee , Dongjun Min , Youngjae Yu

Personas are useful for dialogue response prediction. However, the personas used in current studies are pre-defined and hard to obtain before a conversation. To tackle this issue, we study a new task, named Speaker Persona Detection (SPD),…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-06 Jia-Chen Gu , Zhen-Hua Ling , Yu Wu , Quan Liu , Zhigang Chen , Xiaodan Zhu

Artificial intelligence systems increasingly involve continual learning to enable flexibility in general situations that are not encountered during system training. Human interaction with autonomous systems is broadly studied, but research…

AI agents that communicate on behalf of individuals need to capture how each person actually communicates, yet current approaches either require costly per-person fine-tuning, produce generic outputs from shallow persona descriptions, or…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Ruoxi Shang , Dan Marshall , Edward Cutrell , Denae Ford

With the rapid development of large language models, AI assistants like ChatGPT have become increasingly integrated into people's works and lives but are limited in personalized services. In this paper, we present a plug-and-play framework…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Ruifeng Yuan , Shichao Sun , Yongqi Li , Zili Wang , Ziqiang Cao , Wenjie Li

Searching for and making decisions about information is becoming increasingly difficult as the amount of information and number of choices increases. Recommendation systems help users find items of interest of a particular type, such as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2011-07-04 M. H. Goker , P. Langley , C. A. Thompson

The utility of Role-Playing Language Agents in sociological research is growing alongside the adoption of Large Language Models. For realism in social simulation, these agents must adhere to their personas defined by character profiles, yet…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Yuxin Liu , Mingye Zhu , Siyuan Liu , Bo Hu , Lei Zhang

Human personality is significantly represented by those words which he/she uses in his/her speech or writing. As a consequence of spreading the information infrastructures (specifically the Internet and social media), human communications…

Towards building intelligent dialogue agents, there has been a growing interest in introducing explicit personas in generation models. However, with limited persona-based dialogue data at hand, it may be difficult to train a dialogue…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Yu Cao , Wei Bi , Meng Fang , Shuming Shi , Dacheng Tao

A proactive dialogue system has the ability to proactively lead the conversation. Different from the general chatbots which only react to the user, proactive dialogue systems can be used to achieve some goals, e.g., to recommend some items…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Yutao Zhu , Jian-Yun Nie , Kun Zhou , Pan Du , Hao Jiang , Zhicheng Dou

Natural language dialogue systems raise great attention recently. As many dialogue models are data-driven, high-quality datasets are essential to these systems. In this paper, we introduce Pchatbot, a large-scale dialogue dataset that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Hongjin Qian , Xiaohe Li , Hanxun Zhong , Yu Guo , Yueyuan Ma , Yutao Zhu , Zhanliang Liu , Zhicheng Dou , Ji-Rong Wen

The development of chatbots requires collecting a large number of human-chatbot dialogues to reflect the breadth of users' sociodemographic backgrounds and conversational goals. However, the resource requirements to conduct the respective…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Hovhannes Tamoyan , Hendrik Schuff , Iryna Gurevych