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Chatbots are intelligent conversational computer systems designed to mimic human conversation to enable automated online guidance and support. The increased benefits of chatbots led to their wide adoption by many industries in order to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Guendalina Caldarini , Sardar Jaf , Kenneth McGarry

We propose Machines Talking To Machines (M2M), a framework combining automation and crowdsourcing to rapidly bootstrap end-to-end dialogue agents for goal-oriented dialogues in arbitrary domains. M2M scales to new tasks with just a task…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-01-16 Pararth Shah , Dilek Hakkani-Tür , Gokhan Tür , Abhinav Rastogi , Ankur Bapna , Neha Nayak , Larry Heck

Existing datasets for audio understanding primarily focus on single-turn interactions (i.e. audio captioning, audio question answering) for describing audio in natural language, thus limiting understanding audio via interactive dialogue. To…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Arushi Goel , Zhifeng Kong , Rafael Valle , Bryan Catanzaro

We present TruthBot, an all-in-one multilingual conversational chatbot designed for seeking truth (trustworthy and verified information) on specific topics. It helps users to obtain information specific to certain topics, fact-check…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Ankur Gupta , Yash Varun , Prarthana Das , Nithya Muttineni , Parth Srivastava , Hamim Zafar , Tanmoy Chakraborty , Swaprava Nath

Recently, chatbots received an increased attention from industry and diverse research communities as a dialogue-based interface providing advanced human-computer interactions. On the other hand, Open Data continues to be an important trend…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-09-13 Sophia Keyner , Vadim Savenkov , Svitlana Vakulenko

We develop a high-quality multi-turn dialog dataset, DailyDialog, which is intriguing in several aspects. The language is human-written and less noisy. The dialogues in the dataset reflect our daily communication way and cover various…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-12 Yanran Li , Hui Su , Xiaoyu Shen , Wenjie Li , Ziqiang Cao , Shuzi Niu

Robot design has traditionally been costly and labor-intensive. Despite advancements in automated processes, it remains challenging to navigate a vast design space while producing physically manufacturable robots. We introduce Text2Robot, a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Ryan P. Ringel , Zachary S. Charlick , Jiaxun Liu , Boxi Xia , Boyuan Chen

Existing pipelined task-oriented dialogue systems usually have difficulties adapting to unseen domains, whereas end-to-end systems are plagued by large-scale knowledge bases in practice. In this paper, we introduce a novel query-driven…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Xin Tian , Yingzhan Lin , Mengfei Song , Siqi Bao , Fan Wang , Huang He , Shuqi Sun , Hua Wu

This paper presents key principles and solutions to the challenges faced in designing a domain-specific conversational agent for the legal domain. It includes issues of scope, platform, architecture and preparation of input data. It…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-09-02 Mudita Sharma , Tony Russell-Rose , Lina Barakat , Akitaka Matsuo

Goal-oriented dialogue systems are now being widely adopted in industry where it is of key importance to maintain a rapid prototyping cycle for new products and domains. Data-driven dialogue system development has to be adapted to meet this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-04 Igor Shalyminov , Sungjin Lee , Arash Eshghi , Oliver Lemon

In the rapidly evolving landscape of human-robot collaboration, effective communication between humans and robots is crucial for complex task execution. Traditional request-response systems often lack naturalness and may hinder efficiency.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Davide Ferrari , Filippo Alberi , Cristian Secchi

Interest in dialog systems has grown substantially in the past decade. By extension, so too has interest in developing and improving intent classification and slot-filling models, which are two components that are commonly used in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Stefan Larson , Kevin Leach

Considerable progress has been made towards conversational models that generate coherent and fluent responses by training large language models on large dialogue datasets. These models have little or no control of the generated responses…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Andrea Madotto , Zhaojiang Lin , Yejin Bang , Pascale Fung

Chatbots, taking advantage of the success of the messaging apps and recent advances in Artificial Intelligence, have become very popular, from helping business to improve customer services to chatting to users for the sake of conversation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-02-21 Ana Paula Appel , Paulo Rodrigo Cavalin , Marisa Affonso Vasconcelos , Claudio Santos Pinhanez

The goal of building intelligent dialogue systems has largely been separately pursued under two paradigms: task-oriented dialogue (TOD) systems, which perform goal-oriented functions, and open-domain dialogue (ODD) systems, which focus on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Tom Young , Frank Xing , Vlad Pandelea , Jinjie Ni , Erik Cambria

Goal-Oriented (GO) Dialogue Systems, colloquially known as goal oriented chatbots, help users achieve a predefined goal (e.g. book a movie ticket) within a closed domain. A first step is to understand the user's goal by using natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Vladimir Ilievski

Fact-based dialogue generation is a task of generating a human-like response based on both dialogue context and factual texts. Various methods were proposed to focus on generating informative words that contain facts effectively. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Ryota Tanaka , Akinobu Lee

As research and industry moves towards large-scale models capable of numerous downstream tasks, the complexity of understanding multi-modal datasets that give nuance to models rapidly increases. A clear and thorough understanding of a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Mahima Pushkarna , Andrew Zaldivar , Oddur Kjartansson

Large datasets underlying much of current machine learning raise serious issues concerning inappropriate content such as offensive, insulting, threatening, or might otherwise cause anxiety. This calls for increased dataset documentation,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Patrick Schramowski , Christopher Tauchmann , Kristian Kersting

Identifying relevant knowledge to be used in conversational systems that are grounded in long documents is critical to effective response generation. We introduce a knowledge identification model that leverages the document structure to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Zeqiu Wu , Bo-Ru Lu , Hannaneh Hajishirzi , Mari Ostendorf