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There is a resurgent interest in developing intelligent open-domain dialog systems due to the availability of large amounts of conversational data and the recent progress on neural approaches to conversational AI. Unlike traditional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-02 Minlie Huang , Xiaoyan Zhu , Jianfeng Gao

Real dialogues with AI assistants for solving data-centric tasks often follow dynamic, unpredictable paths due to imperfect information provided by the user or in the data, which must be caught and handled. Developing datasets which capture…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Christian Poelitz , Nick McKenna

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

Pragmatic reasoning plays a pivotal role in deciphering implicit meanings that frequently arise in real-life conversations and is essential for the development of communicative social agents. In this paper, we introduce a novel challenge,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Hengli Li , Song-Chun Zhu , Zilong Zheng

Human-computer dialog plays a prominent role in interactions conducted at kiosks (e.g., withdrawing money from an atm or filling your car with gas), on smartphones (e.g., installing and configuring apps), and on the web (e.g., booking a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Zachary S. Rowland , Saverio Perugini

In clinical operations, teamwork can be the crucial factor that determines the final outcome. Prior studies have shown that sufficient collaboration is the key factor that determines the outcome of an operation. To understand how the team…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Naihao Deng , Kapotaksha Das , Rada Mihalcea , Vitaliy Popov , Mohamed Abouelenien

Dialogue systems capable of social influence such as persuasion, negotiation, and therapy, are essential for extending the use of technology to numerous realistic scenarios. However, existing research primarily focuses on either…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Kushal Chawla , Weiyan Shi , Jingwen Zhang , Gale Lucas , Zhou Yu , Jonathan Gratch

Text-based dialogues are now widely used to solve real-world problems. In cases where solution strategies are already known, they can sometimes be codified into workflows and used to guide humans or artificial agents through the task of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Amine El Hattami , Stefania Raimondo , Issam Laradji , David Vazquez , Pau Rodriguez , Chris Pal

Dialog policy decides what and how a task-oriented dialog system will respond, and plays a vital role in delivering effective conversations. Many studies apply Reinforcement Learning to learn a dialog policy with the reward function which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Ryuichi Takanobu , Hanlin Zhu , Minlie Huang

Though great progress has been made for human-machine conversation, current dialogue system is still in its infancy: it usually converses passively and utters words more as a matter of response, rather than on its own initiatives. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Wenquan Wu , Zhen Guo , Xiangyang Zhou , Hua Wu , Xiyuan Zhang , Rongzhong Lian , Haifeng Wang

As a part of an embodied agent, Large Language Models (LLMs) are typically used for behavior planning given natural language instructions from the user. However, dealing with ambiguous instructions in real-world environments remains a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Anastasiia Ivanova , Eva Bakaeva , Zoya Volovikova , Alexey K. Kovalev , Aleksandr I. Panov

Task oriented dialogue systems (TOD) complete particular tasks based on user preferences across natural language interactions. Considering the impressive performance of large language models (LLMs) in natural language processing (NLP)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Arezoo Saedi , Afsaneh Fatemi , Mohammad Ali Nematbakhsh , Sophie Rosset , Anne Vilnat

Text-to-image generation tasks have driven remarkable advances in diverse media applications, yet most focus on single-turn scenarios and struggle with iterative, multi-turn creative tasks. Recent dialogue-based systems attempt to bridge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Shichao Ma , Yunhe Guo , Jiahao Su , Qihe Huang , Zhengyang Zhou , Yang Wang

This work addresses challenges in developing conversational assistants that support rich multimodal video interactions to accomplish real-world tasks interactively. We introduce the task of automatically linking instructional videos to task…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Sophie Fischer , Carlos Gemmell , Iain Mackie , Jeffrey Dalton

Task-oriented dialogue systems help users accomplish tasks such as booking a movie ticket and ordering food via conversation. Generative models parameterized by a deep neural network are widely used for next turn response generation in such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Prasanna Parthasarathi , Arvind Neelakantan , Sharan Narang

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. This challenge track aims to expand the coverage of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-05 Seokhwan Kim , Mihail Eric , Behnam Hedayatnia , Karthik Gopalakrishnan , Yang Liu , Chao-Wei Huang , Dilek Hakkani-Tur

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

Politeness is a core dimension of human communication, yet its role in human-AI information seeking remains underexplored. We investigate how user politeness behaviour shapes conversational outcomes in a cooking-assistance setting. First,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-01-16 David Elsweiler , Christine Elsweiler , Anna Ziegner

Different people have different habits of describing their intents in conversations. Some people tend to deliberate their intents in several successive utterances, i.e., they use several consistent messages for readability instead of a long…

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

Multi-language recipe personalisation and recommendation is an under-explored field of information retrieval in academic and production systems. The existing gaps in our current understanding are numerous, even on fundamental questions such…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Niall Twomey , Mikhail Fain , Andrey Ponikar , Nadine Sarraf