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Recent reinforcement learning algorithms for task-oriented dialogue system absorbs a lot of interest. However, an unavoidable obstacle for training such algorithms is that annotated dialogue corpora are often unavailable. One of the popular…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-11 Yutai Hou , Meng Fang , Wanxiang Che , Ting Liu

Anticipating what might happen as a result of an action is an essential ability humans have in order to perform tasks effectively. On the other hand, robots capabilities in this regard are quite lacking. While machine learning is used to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Michael Neumann , Sebastian Koralewski , Michael Beetz

Optimization is as much about modeling the right problem as solving it. Identifying the right objectives, constraints, and trade-offs demands extensive interaction between researchers and stakeholders. Large language models can empower…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Joshua Drossman , Alexandre Jacquillat , Sébastien Martin

Semantic communication has gained significant attention with the advances in machine learning. Most semantic communication works focus on either task execution or data reconstruction, with some recent works combining the two. In this work,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-24 Maximilian H. V. Tillmann , Avinash Kankari , Carsten Bockelmann , Armin Dekorsy

This paper reviews the architecture and implementation methods of agents powered by large language models (LLMs). Motivated by the limitations of traditional LLMs in real-world tasks, the research aims to explore patterns to develop…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Victor de Lamo Castrillo , Habtom Kahsay Gidey , Alexander Lenz , Alois Knoll

How to make human-interpreter-like read/write decisions for simultaneous speech translation (SimulST) systems? Current state-of-the-art systems formulate SimulST as a multi-turn dialogue task, requiring specialized interleaved training data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Haotian Tan , Hiroki Ouchi , Sakriani Sakti

Systems powered by artificial intelligence are being developed to be more user-friendly by communicating with users in a progressively human-like conversational way. Chatbots, also known as dialogue systems, interactive conversational…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-01-03 Kennedy Ralston , Yuhao Chen , Haruna Isah , Farhana Zulkernine

Recent advancements in zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) modeling have led to significant strides in generating high-fidelity and diverse speech. However, dialogue generation, along with achieving human-like naturalness in speech, continues to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-17 Leying Zhang , Yao Qian , Long Zhou , Shujie Liu , Dongmei Wang , Xiaofei Wang , Midia Yousefi , Yanmin Qian , Jinyu Li , Lei He , Sheng Zhao , Michael Zeng

Next generation task-oriented dialog systems need to understand conversational contexts with their perceived surroundings, to effectively help users in the real-world multimodal environment. Existing task-oriented dialog datasets aimed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Satwik Kottur , Seungwhan Moon , Alborz Geramifard , Babak Damavandi

This article introduces Bio-Eng-LMM AI chatbot, a versatile platform designed to enhance user interaction for educational and research purposes. Leveraging cutting-edge open-source Large Language Models (LLMs), Bio-Eng-LMM operates as a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-22 Ali Forootani , Danial Esmaeili Aliabadi , Daniela Thraen

Creating a system that can have meaningful conversations with humans to help accomplish tasks is one of the ultimate goals of Artificial Intelligence (AI). It has defined the meaning of AI since the beginning. A lot has been accomplished in…

Inspired by the dual-process theory of human cognition, we introduce DUMA, a novel conversational agent framework that embodies a dual-mind mechanism through the utilization of two generative Large Language Models (LLMs) dedicated to fast…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Xiaoyu Tian , Liangyu Chen , Na Liu , Yaxuan Liu , Wei Zou , Kaijiang Chen , Ming Cui

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

Evaluating the quality of multi-turn chatbot interactions remains challenging, as most existing methods assess interactions at the turn level without addressing whether a user's overarching goal was fulfilled. A ``goal'' here refers to an…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Deepak Babu Piskala , Sharlene Chen , Udita Patel , Parul Kalra , Rafael Castrillo

Task-oriented dialogue (TOD) systems are required to identify key information from conversations for the completion of given tasks. Such information is conventionally specified in terms of intents and slots contained in task-specific…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Jeffrey Zhao , Raghav Gupta , Yuan Cao , Dian Yu , Mingqiu Wang , Harrison Lee , Abhinav Rastogi , Izhak Shafran , Yonghui Wu

Scenario-based training has been widely adopted in many public service sectors. Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown promise in simulating diverse personas to create these training scenarios. However, little is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Yerong Li , Yiren Liu , Yun Huang

We introduce a low-latency telecom AI voice agent pipeline for real-time, interactive telecommunications use, enabling advanced voice AI for call center automation, intelligent IVR (Interactive Voice Response), and AI-driven customer…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Vignesh Ethiraj , Ashwath David , Sidhanth Menon , Divya Vijay

The conventional BIM authoring process typically requires designers to master complex and tedious modeling commands in order to materialize their design intentions within BIM authoring tools. This additional cognitive burden complicates the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Changyu Du , Sebastian Esser , Stavros Nousias , André Borrmann

In spoken Task-Oriented Dialogue (TOD) systems, the choice of the semantic representation describing the users' requests is key to a smooth interaction. Indeed, the system uses this representation to reason over a database and its domain…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Lucas Druart , Valentin Vielzeuf , Yannick Estève

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