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Open domain conversational agents can answer a broad range of targeted queries. However, the sequential nature of interaction with these systems makes knowledge exploration a lengthy task which burdens the user with asking a chain of well…

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This paper proposes an utterance-to-utterance interactive matching network (U2U-IMN) for multi-turn response selection in retrieval-based chatbots. Different from previous methods following context-to-response matching or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Jia-Chen Gu , Zhen-Hua Ling , Quan Liu

In this paper, we study the problem of addressee and response selection in multi-party conversations. Understanding multi-party conversations is challenging because of complex speaker interactions: multiple speakers exchange messages with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-11-29 Rui Zhang , Honglak Lee , Lazaros Polymenakos , Dragomir Radev

We present a novel approach to learn representations for sentence-level semantic similarity using conversational data. Our method trains an unsupervised model to predict conversational input-response pairs. The resulting sentence embeddings…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-23 Yinfei Yang , Steve Yuan , Daniel Cer , Sheng-yi Kong , Noah Constant , Petr Pilar , Heming Ge , Yun-Hsuan Sung , Brian Strope , Ray Kurzweil

Sentence matching is widely used in various natural language tasks such as natural language inference, paraphrase identification, and question answering. For these tasks, understanding logical and semantic relationship between two sentences…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-05 Seonhoon Kim , Inho Kang , Nojun Kwak

In this paper, we investigate the task of general conversational image retrieval on open-domain images. The objective is to search for images based on interactive conversations between humans and computers. To advance this task, we curate a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Zijia Zhao , Longteng Guo , Tongtian Yue , Erdong Hu , Shuai Shao , Zehuan Yuan , Hua Huang , Jing Liu

Conversational retrieval refers to an information retrieval system that operates in an iterative and interactive manner, requiring the retrieval of various external resources, such as persona, knowledge, and even response, to effectively…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Hongru Wang , Boyang Xue , Baohang Zhou , Rui Wang , Fei Mi , Weichao Wang , Yasheng Wang , Kam-Fai Wong

Semantic code search technology allows searching for existing code snippets through natural language, which can greatly improve programming efficiency. Smart contracts, programs that run on the blockchain, have a code reuse rate of more…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Chaochen Shi , Yong Xiang , Jiangshan Yu , Longxiang Gao

Multi-turn conversations consist of complex semantic structures, and it is still a challenge to generate coherent and diverse responses given previous utterances. It's practical that a conversation takes place under a background, meanwhile,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Lei Shen , Yang Feng , Haolan Zhan

In this paper, we introduce the use of Semantic Hashing as embedding for the task of Intent Classification and achieve state-of-the-art performance on three frequently used benchmarks. Intent Classification on a small dataset is a…

Recently, as Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown impressive emerging capabilities and gained widespread popularity, research on LLM-based search agents has proliferated. In real-world situations, users often input contextual and highly…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Yaqi Wang , Haipei Xu

Chatbots and AI assistants have claimed their importance in today life. The main reason behind adopting this technology is to connect with the user, understand their requirements, and fulfill them. This has been achieved but at the cost of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Muhammad Hamzah Mushtaq

We present a demonstration of a neural interactive-predictive system for tackling multimodal sequence to sequence tasks. The system generates text predictions to different sequence to sequence tasks: machine translation, image and video…

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Multimodal chatbots have become one of the major topics for dialogue systems in both research community and industry. Recently, researchers have shed light on the multimodality of responses as well as dialogue contexts. This work explores…

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Despite their popularity in the chatbot literature, retrieval-based models have had modest impact on task-oriented dialogue systems, with the main obstacle to their application being the low-data regime of most task-oriented dialogue tasks.…

Multi-task dense prediction aims to perform multiple pixel-level tasks simultaneously. However, capturing global cross-task interactions remains non-trivial due to the quadratic complexity of standard self-attention on high-resolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Chen Liu , Hengyu Man , Xiaopeng Fan , Debin Zhao

This study introduces a new long-form database question answering dataset designed to evaluate how Large Language Models (LLMs) interact with a SQL interpreter. The task necessitates LLMs to strategically generate multiple SQL queries to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Linyong Nan , Ellen Zhang , Weijin Zou , Yilun Zhao , Wenfei Zhou , Arman Cohan

Conversational search is an approach to information retrieval (IR), where users engage in a dialogue with an agent in order to satisfy their information needs. Previous conceptual work described properties and actions a good agent should…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-11 Gustavo Penha , Alexandru Balan , Claudia Hauff

We consider the importance of different utterances in the context for selecting the response usually depends on the current query. In this paper, we propose the model TripleNet to fully model the task with the triple <context, query,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Wentao Ma , Yiming Cui , Nan Shao , Su He , Wei-Nan Zhang , Ting Liu , Shijin Wang , Guoping Hu

In this paper we present the results of our experiments in training and deploying a self-supervised retrieval-based chatbot trained with contrastive learning for assisting customer support agents. In contrast to most existing research…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Kristen Moore , Shenjun Zhong , Zhen He , Torsten Rudolf , Nils Fisher , Brandon Victor , Neha Jindal