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This paper presents a novel application of large language models in user simulation for task-oriented dialog systems, specifically focusing on an in-context learning approach. By harnessing the power of these models, the proposed approach…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Silvia Terragni , Modestas Filipavicius , Nghia Khau , Bruna Guedes , André Manso , Roland Mathis

This review gives an extensive overview of evaluation methods for task-oriented dialogue systems, paying special attention to practical applications of dialogue systems, for example for customer service. The review (1) provides an overview…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Anouck Braggaar , Christine Liebrecht , Emiel van Miltenburg , Emiel Krahmer

Efficient patient-doctor interaction is among the key factors for a successful disease diagnosis. During the conversation, the doctor could query complementary diagnostic information, such as the patient's symptoms, previous surgery, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Xueshen Li , Xinlong Hou , Nirupama Ravi , Ziyi Huang , Yu Gan

Task-oriented dialog systems have been applied in various tasks, such as automated personal assistants, customer service providers and tutors. These systems work well when users have clear and explicit intentions that are well-aligned to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-01-09 Zhou Yu , Alan W Black , Alexander I. Rudnicky

With the improvements in speech recognition and voice generation technologies over the last years, a lot of companies have sought to develop conversation understanding systems that run on mobile phones or smart home devices through natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-03 Mohammad Aliannejadi , Manajit Chakraborty , Esteban Andrés Ríssola , Fabio Crestani

A well-designed interactive human-like dialogue system is expected to take actions (e.g. smiling) and respond in a pattern similar to humans. However, due to the limitation of single-modality (only speech) or small volume of currently…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Zhiling Luo , Qiankun Shi , Sha Zhao , Wei Zhou , Haiqing Chen , Yuankai Ma , Haitao Leng

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

Data users need relevant context and research expertise to effectively search for and identify relevant datasets. Leading data providers, such as the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), offer standardized…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Lizhou Fan , Sara Lafia , Lingyao Li , Fangyuan Yang , Libby Hemphill

In this work, we introduce the Keep Emotional and Essential Memory (KEEM) dataset, a novel generation-based dataset designed to enhance memory updates in long-term conversational systems. Unlike existing approaches that rely on simple…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Jeonghyun Kang , Hongjin Kim , Harksoo Kim

Computational resource constraints on edge devices make it difficult to develop a fully embedded AI companion system with a satisfactory user experience. AI companion and memory systems detailed in existing literature cannot be directly…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Rahul Gupta , Stephen D. H. Hsu

In an information-seeking conversation, a user may ask questions that are under-specified or unanswerable. An ideal agent would interact by initiating different response types according to the available knowledge sources. However, most…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Zeqiu Wu , Ryu Parish , Hao Cheng , Sewon Min , Prithviraj Ammanabrolu , Mari Ostendorf , Hannaneh Hajishirzi

Vision-dialog navigation posed as a new holy-grail task in vision-language disciplinary targets at learning an agent endowed with the capability of constant conversation for help with natural language and navigating according to human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Yi Zhu , Fengda Zhu , Zhaohuan Zhan , Bingqian Lin , Jianbin Jiao , Xiaojun Chang , Xiaodan Liang

Existing conversational datasets consist either of written proxies for dialog or small-scale transcriptions of natural speech. We introduce 'Interview': a large-scale (105K conversations) media dialog dataset collected from news interview…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-08 Bodhisattwa Prasad Majumder , Shuyang Li , Jianmo Ni , Julian McAuley

Spoken Dialogue Models (SDMs) have recently attracted significant attention for their ability to generate voice responses directly to users' spoken queries. Despite their increasing popularity, there exists a gap in research focused on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Chengqian Ma , Wei Tao , Yiwen Guo

Tracking and collecting fast-evolving online discussions provides vast data for studying social media usage and its role in people's public lives. However, collecting social media data using a static set of keywords fails to satisfy the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-02-26 Maya Srikanth , Anqi Liu , Nicholas Adams-Cohen , Jian Cao , R. Michael Alvarez , Anima Anandkumar

Robots navigating in human environments should use language to ask for assistance and be able to understand human responses. To study this challenge, we introduce Cooperative Vision-and-Dialog Navigation, a dataset of over 2k embodied,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Jesse Thomason , Michael Murray , Maya Cakmak , Luke Zettlemoyer

Recent research in dialogue systems and corpora has focused on two main categories: task-oriented (TOD) and open-domain (chit-chat) dialogues. TOD systems help users accomplish specific tasks, while open-domain systems aim to create…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Wen-Yu Chang , Yun-Nung Chen

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

There has been growing interest in using neural networks and deep learning techniques to create dialogue systems. Conversational recommendation is an interesting setting for the scientific exploration of dialogue with natural language as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Raymond Li , Samira Kahou , Hannes Schulz , Vincent Michalski , Laurent Charlin , Chris Pal

Conversational information seeking has evolved rapidly in the last few years with the development of Large Language Models (LLMs), providing the basis for interpreting and responding in a naturalistic manner to user requests. The extended…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Mohammad Aliannejadi , Zahra Abbasiantaeb , Shubham Chatterjee , Jeffery Dalton , Leif Azzopardi