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Some robots can interact with humans using natural language, and identify service requests through human-robot dialog. However, few robots are able to improve their language capabilities from this experience. In this paper, we develop a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Saeid Amiri , Sujay Bajracharya , Cihangir Goktolga , Jesse Thomason , Shiqi Zhang

The majority of conversations a dialogue agent sees over its lifetime occur after it has already been trained and deployed, leaving a vast store of potential training signal untapped. In this work, we propose the self-feeding chatbot, a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-14 Braden Hancock , Antoine Bordes , Pierre-Emmanuel Mazaré , Jason Weston

With the rapid evolution of Natural Language Processing (NLP), Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT have emerged as powerful tools capable of transforming various sectors. Their vast knowledge base and dynamic interaction capabilities…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Kevin Wang , Jason Ramos , Ramon Lawrence

This study investigates the design, development, and evaluation of a Large Language Model (LLM)-based chatbot for teaching English conversations in an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) context. Employing the Design and Development…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Jaekwon Park , Jiyoung Bae , Unggi Lee , Taekyung Ahn , Sookbun Lee , Dohee Kim , Aram Choi , Yeil Jeong , Jewoong Moon , Hyeoncheol Kim

Innovation is a key component in trying new solutions for the students to learn efficiently and in ways that correspond to their own experience, where chatbots are one of these new solutions. One of the main problem that chatbots face today…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Dimitrios Chaskopoulos , Jonas Eilertsen Hægdahl , Petter Sagvold , Claire Trinquet , Maryam Edalati

A good dialogue agent should have the ability to interact with users by both responding to questions and by asking questions, and importantly to learn from both types of interaction. In this work, we explore this direction by designing a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-02-14 Jiwei Li , Alexander H. Miller , Sumit Chopra , Marc'Aurelio Ranzato , Jason Weston

Current conversational AI systems aim to understand a set of pre-designed requests and execute related actions, which limits them to evolve naturally and adapt based on human interactions. Motivated by how children learn their first…

The study illustrates a first step towards an ongoing work aimed at developing a dataset of dialogues potentially useful for customer service conversation management between humans and AI chatbots. The approach exploits ChatGPT 3.5 to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Alfredo Cuzzocrea , Giovanni Pilato , Pablo Garcia Bringas

Systems powered by artificial intelligence are being developed to be more user-friendly by communicating with users in a progressively human-like conversational way. Chatbots, also known as dialogue systems, interactive conversational…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-01-03 Kennedy Ralston , Yuhao Chen , Haruna Isah , Farhana Zulkernine

Conversational agents, such as chatbots and virtual assistants, have become essential in software development, boosting productivity, collaboration, and automating various tasks. This paper examines the role of adaptive AI-powered…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Omar Elsisi , Glaucia Melo

Chatbots are one class of intelligent, conversational software agents activated by natural language input (which can be in the form of text, voice, or both). They provide conversational output in response, and if commanded, can sometimes…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2017-04-18 Nicole M. Radziwill , Morgan C. Benton

Dialogue systems have been used as conversation partners in English learning, but few have studied whether these systems improve learning outcomes. Student passion and perseverance, or grit, has been associated with language learning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Li Siyan , Teresa Shao , Zhou Yu , Julia Hirschberg

This paper focuses on AI tutors in foreign language learning, a field of application of AI tutors with great development, especially during the last years, when great advances in natural language understanding and processing in real time,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Nikolaos Avouris

This paper presents a research platform that supports spoken dialogue interaction with multiple robots. The demonstration showcases our crafted MultiBot testing scenario in which users can verbally issue search, navigate, and follow…

Dialogue systems have become recently essential in our life. Their use is getting more and more fluid and easy throughout the time. This boils down to the improvements made in NLP and AI fields. In this paper, we try to provide an overview…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-22 Maali Mnasri

Traditional end-of-quarter surveys often fail to provide instructors with timely, detailed, and actionable feedback about their teaching. In this paper, we explore how Large Language Model (LLM)-powered chatbots can reimagine the classroom…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Sai Siddartha Maram , Ulia Zaman , Magy Seif El-Nasr

The communication of potential students with a university department is performed manually and it is a very time consuming procedure. The opportunity to communicate with on a one-to-one basis is highly valued. However with many hundreds of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2014-08-29 Nikolaos Polatidis

Dialogue systems have attracted more and more attention. Recent advances on dialogue systems are overwhelmingly contributed by deep learning techniques, which have been employed to enhance a wide range of big data applications such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Hongshen Chen , Xiaorui Liu , Dawei Yin , Jiliang Tang

Nowadays, the current neural network models of dialogue generation(chatbots) show great promise for generating answers for chatty agents. But they are short-sighted in that they predict utterances one at a time while disregarding their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Jabri Ismail , Aboulbichr Ahmed , El ouaazizi Aziza

The development of artificial agents able to learn through dialog without domain restrictions has the potential to allow machines to learn how to perform tasks in a similar manner to humans and change how we relate to them. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Eugénio Ribeiro , Ricardo Ribeiro , David Martins de Matos