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Modern virtual personal assistants provide a convenient interface for completing daily tasks via voice commands. An important consideration for these assistants is the ability to recover from automatic speech recognition (ASR) and natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-12-13 Maryam Fazel-Zarandi , Shang-Wen Li , Jin Cao , Jared Casale , Peter Henderson , David Whitney , Alborz Geramifard

We introduce NeuralOS, a neural framework that simulates graphical user interfaces (GUIs) of operating systems by directly predicting screen frames in response to user inputs such as mouse movements, clicks, and keyboard events. NeuralOS…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Luke Rivard , Sun Sun , Hongyu Guo , Wenhu Chen , Yuntian Deng

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used to simulate how specific users respond to a given context, enabling more user-centric applications that rely on user feedback. However, existing user simulators mostly imitate surface-level…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Shirley Wu , Evelyn Choi , Arpandeep Khatua , Zhanghan Wang , Joy He-Yueya , Tharindu Cyril Weerasooriya , Wei Wei , Diyi Yang , Jure Leskovec , James Zou

Robot learning methods have the potential for widespread generalization across tasks, environments, and objects. However, these methods require large diverse datasets that are expensive to collect in real-world robotics settings. For robot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Zoey Chen , Sho Kiami , Abhishek Gupta , Vikash Kumar

User simulation is a promising approach for automatically training and evaluating conversational information access agents, enabling the generation of synthetic dialogues and facilitating reproducible experiments at scale. However, the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Nolwenn Bernard , Krisztian Balog

Goal oriented dialogue systems have become a prominent customer-care interaction channel for most businesses. However, not all interactions are smooth, and customer intent misunderstanding is a major cause of dialogue failure. We show that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Eyal Ben-David , Boaz Carmeli , Ateret Anaby-Tavor

Persuasion dialogue systems reflect the machine's ability to make strategic moves beyond verbal communication, and therefore differentiate themselves from task-oriented or open-domain dialogue systems and have their own unique values.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Weiyan Shi , Yu Li , Saurav Sahay , Zhou Yu

Personalized Dialogue Generation (PDG) aims to create coherent responses according to roles or personas. Traditional PDG relies on external role data, which can be scarce and raise privacy concerns. Approaches address these issues by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Yihong Tang , Bo Wang , Dongming Zhao , Xiaojia Jin , Jijun Zhang , Ruifang He , Yuexian Hou

We propose a method of simulating the human process of foreign accentuation using Generative Spoken Language Model (GSLM) only with native speech corpora. When one listens to spoken words of a foreign language and repeats them, the repeated…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Kentaro Onda , Joonyong Park , Nobuaki Minematsu , Daisuke Saito

Non-goal oriented dialog agents (i.e. chatbots) aim to produce varying and engaging conversations with a user; however, they typically exhibit either inconsistent personality across conversations or the average personality of all users.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Alex Boyd , Raul Puri , Mohammad Shoeybi , Mostofa Patwary , Bryan Catanzaro

One of the main goals of robotics and intelligent agent research is to enable natural communication with humans in physically situated settings. While recent work has focused on verbal modes such as language and speech, non-verbal…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Anna Deichler , Siyang Wang , Simon Alexanderson , Jonas Beskow

Large Language Models (LLMs) has shown exceptional capabilities in many natual language understanding and generation tasks. However, the personalization issue still remains a much-coveted property, especially when it comes to the multiple…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Hongru Wang , Wenyu Huang , Yang Deng , Rui Wang , Zezhong Wang , Yufei Wang , Fei Mi , Jeff Z. Pan , Kam-Fai Wong

In this paper, we present a groundbreaking paradigm for human-computer interaction that revolutionizes the traditional notion of an operating system. Within this innovative framework, user requests issued to the machine are handled by an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Gabriele Tolomei , Cesare Campagnano , Fabrizio Silvestri , Giovanni Trappolini

As a crucial component in task-oriented dialog systems, the Natural Language Generation (NLG) module converts a dialog act represented in a semantic form into a response in natural language. The success of traditional template-based or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Baolin Peng , Chenguang Zhu , Chunyuan Li , Xiujun Li , Jinchao Li , Michael Zeng , Jianfeng Gao

Conversational recommendation systems (CRSs) use multi-turn interaction to capture user preferences and provide personalized recommendations. A fundamental challenge in CRSs lies in effectively understanding user preferences from…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Xiaolei Wang , Chunxuan Xia , Junyi Li , Fanzhe Meng , Lei Huang , Jinpeng Wang , Wayne Xin Zhao , Ji-Rong Wen

Speech-controlled user interfaces facilitate the operation of devices and household functions to laymen. State-of-the-art language technology scans the acoustically analyzed speech signal for relevant keywords that are subsequently inserted…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Peter beim Graben , Ronald Römer , Werner Meyer , Markus Huber , Matthias Wolff

Natural language generation (NLG) is an important component in spoken dialogue systems. This paper presents a model called Encoder-Aggregator-Decoder which is an extension of an Recurrent Neural Network based Encoder-Decoder architecture.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-12 Van-Khanh Tran , Le-Minh Nguyen

We present a model which predicts how individual users of a dialog system understand and produce utterances based on user groups. In contrast to previous work, these user groups are not specified beforehand, but learned in training. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-18 Nikos Engonopoulos , Christoph Teichmann , Alexander Koller

With the rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs), recent years have witnessed many promising studies on leveraging LLM-based agents to simulate human social behavior. While prior work has demonstrated significant potential across…

Recent advances in neural-based generative modeling have reignited the hopes of having computer systems capable of conversing with humans and able to understand natural language. The employment of deep neural architectures has been largely…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Haoqin Tu , Yitong Li