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We analyse the cross-lingual transferability of a dialogue evaluation framework that assesses the relationships between micro-level linguistic features (e.g. backchannels) and macro-level interactivity labels (e.g. topic management),…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Rena Gao , Jingxuan Wu , Xuetong Wu , Carsten Roever , Jing Wu , Long Lv , Jey Han Lau

Role-playing with large language models is fundamentally a session-level task, requiring agents to sustain character identity and interaction quality across extended multi-turn conversations. Yet existing evaluation and optimization methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Rongsheng Zhang , Jiji Tang , Junnan Ren , Zuyi Bao , Weijie Chen , Ruofan Hu , Zhou Zhao , Tangjie Lv , Yan Zhang

Role-play has become a key testbed for generative models, expanding from text-only dialogue to multimodal interaction. Extending role-play to speech captures prosody, emotion, and delivery, but also poses new evaluation challenges. Current…

This study presents a framework for automated evaluation of dynamically evolving topic models using Large Language Models (LLMs). Topic modeling is essential for organizing and retrieving scholarly content in digital library systems,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Zhiyin Tan , Jennifer D'Souza

In this work, we propose a novel framework that integrates large language models (LLMs) with an RL-based dialogue manager for open-ended dialogue with a specific goal. By leveraging hierarchical reinforcement learning to model the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Lucie Galland , Catherine Pelachaud , Florian Pecune

Dialogue systems for Automatic Differential Diagnosis (ADD) have a wide range of real-life applications. These dialogue systems are promising for providing easy access and reducing medical costs. Building end-to-end ADD dialogue systems…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Srija Macherla , Man Luo , Mihir Parmar , Chitta Baral

Currently, dialogue systems have achieved high performance in processing text-based communication. However, they have not yet effectively incorporated visual information, which poses a significant challenge. Furthermore, existing models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Viktor Moskvoretskii , Anton Frolov , Denis Kuznetsov

The quality of meeting summaries generated by natural language generation (NLG) systems is hard to measure automatically. Established metrics such as ROUGE and BERTScore have a relatively low correlation with human judgments and fail to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Frederic Kirstein , Terry Ruas , Bela Gipp

Evaluating the value alignment of large language models (LLMs) has traditionally relied on single-sentence adversarial prompts, which directly probe models with ethically sensitive or controversial questions. However, with the rapid…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Yazhou Zhang , Qimeng Liu , Qiuchi Li , Peng Zhang , Jing Qin

The emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) as chat assistants capable of generating human-like conversations has amplified the need for robust evaluation methods, particularly for open-ended tasks. Conventional metrics such as EM and F1,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Sher Badshah , Hassan Sajjad

Existing personalized dialogue models use human designed persona descriptions to improve dialogue consistency. Collecting such descriptions from existing dialogues is expensive and requires hand-crafted feature designs. In this paper, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-27 Zhaojiang Lin , Andrea Madotto , Chien-Sheng Wu , Pascale Fung

Current approaches for controlling dialogue response generation are primarily focused on high-level attributes like style, sentiment, or topic. In this work, we focus on constrained long-term dialogue generation, which involves more…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Ramya Ramakrishnan , Hashan Buddhika Narangodage , Mauro Schilman , Kilian Q. Weinberger , Ryan McDonald

Speech Language Models (SLMs) have made significant progress in spoken language understanding. Yet it remains unclear whether they can fully perceive non lexical vocal cues alongside spoken words, and respond with empathy that aligns with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Li Zhou , Lutong Yu , You Lyu , Yihang Lin , Zefeng Zhao , Junyi Ao , Yuhao Zhang , Benyou Wang , Haizhou Li

While large audio-language models have advanced open-ended audio understanding, they still fall short of nuanced human-level comprehension. This gap persists largely because current benchmarks, limited by data annotations and evaluation…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-12 Yadong Niu , Tianzi Wang , Heinrich Dinkel , Xingwei Sun , Jiahao Zhou , Gang Li , Jizhong Liu , Xunying Liu , Junbo Zhang , Jian Luan

We propose a novel preference alignment framework for improving spoken dialogue models on real-time conversations from user interactions. Current preference learning methods primarily focus on text-based language models, and are not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Anne Wu , Laurent Mazaré , Neil Zeghidour , Alexandre Défossez

In this paper, we introduce the task of learning unsupervised dialogue embeddings. Trivial approaches such as combining pre-trained word or sentence embeddings and encoding through pre-trained language models (PLMs) have been shown to be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Che Liu , Rui Wang , Junfeng Jiang , Yongbin Li , Fei Huang

Task-oriented dialogue systems (TODS) are continuing to rise in popularity as various industries find ways to effectively harness their capabilities, saving both time and money. However, even state-of-the-art TODS are not yet reaching their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Ryan Fellows , Hisham Ihshaish , Steve Battle , Ciaran Haines , Peter Mayhew , J. Ignacio Deza

High dialogue engagement is a crucial indicator of an effective conversation. A reliable measure of engagement could help benchmark large language models, enhance the effectiveness of human-computer interactions, or improve personal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yongkang Guo , Zhihuan Huang , Yuqing Kong

Evaluating user-facing AI applications remains a central challenge, especially in open-ended domains such as travel planning, clinical note generation, or dialogue. The gold standard is user feedback (e.g., thumbs up/down) or behavioral…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Michael J. Ryan , Yanzhe Zhang , Amol Salunkhe , Yi Chu , Di Xu , Diyi Yang

Prompt-tuning has become an increasingly popular parameter-efficient method for adapting large pretrained language models to downstream tasks. However, both discrete prompting and continuous prompting assume fixed prompts for all data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Runcheng Liu , Ahmad Rashid , Ivan Kobyzev , Mehdi Rezagholizadeh , Pascal Poupart