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Due to the migration megatrend, efficient and effective second-language acquisition is vital. One proposed solution involves AI-enabled conversational agents for person-centered interactive language practice. We present results from ongoing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Markus Borg , Johan Bengtsson , Harald Österling , Alexander Hagelborn , Isabella Gagner , Piotr Tomaszewski

Emotion Recognition in Conversation is a core component of affective computing, while current resources of sign language emotion datasets primarily focus on isolated sentences and lack conversational context. Models trained exclusively on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Yusong Wang , Keyu Mao , Takao Obi , Minghao Shao , Kotaro Funakoshi

With the rapid development of artificial intelligence, conversational bots have became prevalent in mainstream E-commerce platforms, which can provide convenient customer service timely. To satisfy the user, the conversational bots need to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Zhenyu Zhang , Tao Guo , Meng Chen

A well-designed interactive human-like dialogue system is expected to take actions (e.g. smiling) and respond in a pattern similar to humans. However, due to the limitation of single-modality (only speech) or small volume of currently…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Zhiling Luo , Qiankun Shi , Sha Zhao , Wei Zhou , Haiqing Chen , Yuankai Ma , Haitao Leng

The ability to recognise emotions lends a conversational artificial intelligence a human touch. While emotions in chit-chat dialogues have received substantial attention, emotions in task-oriented dialogues remain largely unaddressed. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Shutong Feng , Nurul Lubis , Christian Geishauser , Hsien-chin Lin , Michael Heck , Carel van Niekerk , Milica Gašić

Most prior work on task-oriented dialogue systems are restricted to a limited coverage of domain APIs, while users oftentimes have domain related requests that are not covered by the APIs. In this paper, we propose to expand coverage of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-08 Seokhwan Kim , Mihail Eric , Karthik Gopalakrishnan , Behnam Hedayatnia , Yang Liu , Dilek Hakkani-Tur

Robust task-oriented spoken dialogue agents require exposure to the full diversity of how people interact through speech. Building spoken user simulators that address this requires large-scale spoken task-oriented dialogue (TOD) data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Jonggeun Lee , Junseong Pyo , Jeongmin Park , Yohan Jo

This paper summarises the experimental setup and results of the first shared task on end-to-end (E2E) natural language generation (NLG) in spoken dialogue systems. Recent end-to-end generation systems are promising since they reduce the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-22 Ondřej Dušek , Jekaterina Novikova , Verena Rieser

This work presents a new dialog dataset, CookDial, that facilitates research on task-oriented dialog systems with procedural knowledge understanding. The corpus contains 260 human-to-human task-oriented dialogs in which an agent, given a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Yiwei Jiang , Klim Zaporojets , Johannes Deleu , Thomas Demeester , Chris Develder

We introduce dodecaDialogue: a set of 12 tasks that measures if a conversational agent can communicate engagingly with personality and empathy, ask questions, answer questions by utilizing knowledge resources, discuss topics and situations,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Kurt Shuster , Da Ju , Stephen Roller , Emily Dinan , Y-Lan Boureau , Jason Weston

Dialogue segmentation is a crucial task for dialogue systems allowing a better understanding of conversational texts. Despite recent progress in unsupervised dialogue segmentation methods, their performances are limited by the lack of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Junfeng Jiang , Chengzhang Dong , Sadao Kurohashi , Akiko Aizawa

Endowing a dialogue system with particular personality traits is essential to deliver more human-like conversations. However, due to the challenge of embodying personality via language expression and the lack of large-scale persona-labeled…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-03 Yinhe Zheng , Guanyi Chen , Minlie Huang , Song Liu , Xuan Zhu

In modern dialogue systems, the ability to implicitly infer user backgrounds from conversations and leverage this information for personalized assistance is crucial. However, the scarcity of high-quality data remains a fundamental challenge…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Bo Peng , Zhiheng Wang , Heyang Gong , Chaochao Lu

Many everyday tasks ranging from fixing appliances, cooking recipes to car maintenance require expert knowledge, especially when tasks are complex and multi-step. Despite growing interest in AI agents, there is a scarcity of dialogue-video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Lavisha Aggarwal , Vikas Bahirwani , Lin Li , Andrea Colaco

Personalized dialogue systems are an essential step toward better human-machine interaction. Existing personalized dialogue agents rely on properly designed conversational datasets, which are mostly monolingual (e.g., English), which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-09 Zhaojiang Lin , Zihan Liu , Genta Indra Winata , Samuel Cahyawijaya , Andrea Madotto , Yejin Bang , Etsuko Ishii , Pascale Fung

Progress in speech processing has been facilitated by shared datasets and benchmarks. Historically these have focused on automatic speech recognition (ASR), speaker identification, or other lower-level tasks. Interest has been growing in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Suwon Shon , Ankita Pasad , Felix Wu , Pablo Brusco , Yoav Artzi , Karen Livescu , Kyu J. Han

Task-oriented dialogues often require agents to enact complex, multi-step procedures in order to meet user requests. While large language models have found success automating these dialogues in constrained environments, their widespread…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Julia White , Arushi Raghuvanshi , Yada Pruksachatkun

Existing multimodal task-oriented dialog data fails to demonstrate the diverse expressions of user subjective preferences and recommendation acts in the real-life shopping scenario. This paper introduces a new dataset SURE (Multimodal…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Yuxing Long , Binyuan Hui , Caixia Yuan1 , Fei Huang , Yongbin Li , Xiaojie Wang

Recently, there has been an increasing number of efforts to introduce models capable of generating natural language explanations (NLEs) for their predictions on vision-language (VL) tasks. Such models are appealing, because they can provide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Maxime Kayser , Oana-Maria Camburu , Leonard Salewski , Cornelius Emde , Virginie Do , Zeynep Akata , Thomas Lukasiewicz

Practical dialog systems need to deal with various knowledge sources, noisy user expressions, and the shortage of annotated data. To better solve the above problems, we propose CGoDial, new challenging and comprehensive Chinese benchmark…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Yinpei Dai , Wanwei He , Bowen Li , Yuchuan Wu , Zheng Cao , Zhongqi An , Jian Sun , Yongbin Li