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Document grounded generation is the task of using the information provided in a document to improve text generation. This work focuses on two different document grounded generation tasks: Wikipedia Update Generation task and Dialogue…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Shrimai Prabhumoye , Kazuma Hashimoto , Yingbo Zhou , Alan W Black , Ruslan Salakhutdinov

Endowing dialogue systems with personas is essential to deliver more human-like conversations. However, this problem is still far from well explored due to the difficulties of both embodying personalities in natural languages and the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-13 Yinhe Zheng , Rongsheng Zhang , Xiaoxi Mao , Minlie Huang

Most online information sources are text-based and in Western Languages like English. However, many new and first time users of the Internet are in contexts with low English proficiency and are unable to access vital information online.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Anurag Aribandi , Divyanshu Agrawal , Dipanjan Chakraborty

Personalizing dialogue agents is important for dialogue systems to generate more specific, consistent, and engaging responses. However, most current dialogue personalization approaches rely on explicit persona descriptions during inference,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Wangchunshu Zhou , Qifei Li , Chenle Li

This paper introduces a simple yet effective data-centric approach for the task of improving persona-conditioned dialogue agents. Prior model-centric approaches unquestioningly depend on the raw crowdsourced benchmark datasets such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Minju Kim , Beong-woo Kwak , Youngwook Kim , Hong-in Lee , Seung-won Hwang , Jinyoung Yeo

People speak at different levels of specificity in different situations. Depending on their knowledge, interlocutors, mood, etc.} A conversational agent should have this ability and know when to be specific and when to be general. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-02-23 Jiwei Li , Will Monroe , Dan Jurafsky

In conversational QA, models have to leverage information in previous turns to answer upcoming questions. Current approaches, such as Question Rewriting, struggle to extract relevant information as the conversation unwinds. We introduce the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Marco Del Tredici , Xiaoyu Shen , Gianni Barlacchi , Bill Byrne , Adrià de Gispert

Leveraging persona information of users in Neural Response Generators (NRG) to perform personalized conversations has been considered as an attractive and important topic in the research of conversational agents over the past few years.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Bowen Wu , Mengyuan Li , Zongsheng Wang , Yifu Chen , Derek Wong , Qihang Feng , Junhong Huang , Baoxun Wang

Although neural conversation models are effective in learning how to produce fluent responses, their primary challenge lies in knowing what to say to make the conversation contentful and non-vacuous. We present a new end-to-end approach to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-10 Lianhui Qin , Michel Galley , Chris Brockett , Xiaodong Liu , Xiang Gao , Bill Dolan , Yejin Choi , Jianfeng Gao

Large Language Models (LLMs) have quickly become an invaluable assistant for a variety of tasks. However, their effectiveness is constrained by their ability to tailor responses to human preferences and behaviors via personalization. Prior…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Lucie Charlotte Magister , Katherine Metcalf , Yizhe Zhang , Maartje ter Hoeve

Recently, the topic-grounded dialogue (TGD) system has become increasingly popular as its powerful capability to actively guide users to accomplish specific tasks through topic-guided conversations. Most existing works utilize side…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Shixuan Fan , Wei Wei , Xiaofei Wen , Xianling Mao , Jixiong Chen , Dangyang Chen

In open-domain conversational systems, it is important but challenging to leverage background knowledge. We can use the incorporation of knowledge to make the generation of dialogue controllable, and can generate more diverse sentences that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Cheng Luo , Dayiheng Liu , Chanjuan Li , Li Lu , Jiancheng Lv

Building robust and general dialogue models for spoken conversations is challenging due to the gap in distributions of spoken and written data. This paper presents our approach to build generalized models for the Knowledge-grounded…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Ruijie Yan , Shuang Peng , Haitao Mi , Liang Jiang , Shihui Yang , Yuchi Zhang , Jiajun Li , Liangrui Peng , Yongliang Wang , Zujie Wen

State-of-the-art conversational agents have advanced significantly in conjunction with the use of large transformer-based language models. However, even with these advancements, conversational agents still lack the ability to produce…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Sashank Santhanam , Wei Ping , Raul Puri , Mohammad Shoeybi , Mostofa Patwary , Bryan Catanzaro

Generating knowledge grounded responses in both goal and non-goal oriented dialogue systems is an important research challenge. Knowledge Graphs (KG) can be viewed as an abstraction of the real world, which can potentially facilitate a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Debanjan Chaudhuri , Md Rashad Al Hasan Rony , Jens Lehmann

Grounded language models use external sources of information, such as knowledge graphs, to meet some of the general challenges associated with pre-training. By extending previous work on compositional generalization in semantic parsing, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Sondre Wold , Étienne Simon , Lucas Georges Gabriel Charpentier , Egor V. Kostylev , Erik Velldal , Lilja Øvrelid

In conversational settings, individuals exhibit unique behaviors, rendering a one-size-fits-all approach insufficient for generating responses by dialogue agents. Although past studies have aimed to create personalized dialogue agents using…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Shivani Kumar , Rishabh Gupta , Md Shad Akhtar , Tanmoy Chakraborty

Neural network models are capable of generating extremely natural sounding conversational interactions. Nevertheless, these models have yet to demonstrate that they can incorporate content in the form of factual information or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-19 Marjan Ghazvininejad , Chris Brockett , Ming-Wei Chang , Bill Dolan , Jianfeng Gao , Wen-tau Yih , Michel Galley

Conversational question answering systems often rely on semantic parsing to enable interactive information retrieval, which involves the generation of structured database queries from a natural language input. For information-seeking…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Phillip Schneider , Manuel Klettner , Kristiina Jokinen , Elena Simperl , Florian Matthes

Generating persona consistent dialogue response is important for developing an intelligent conversational agent. Recent works typically fine-tune large-scale pre-trained models on this task by concatenating persona texts and dialogue…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Liang Chen , Hongru Wang , Yang Deng , Wai-Chung Kwan , Zezhong Wang , Kam-Fai Wong