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Tracking dialogue states to better interpret user goals and feed downstream policy learning is a bottleneck in dialogue management. Common practice has been to treat it as a problem of classifying dialogue content into a set of pre-defined…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-06-04 Lizi Liao , Yunshan Ma , Wenqiang Lei , Tat-Seng Chua

Task-oriented dialogue (TOD) models have made significant progress in recent years. However, previous studies primarily focus on datasets written by annotators, which has resulted in a gap between academic research and real-world spoken…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Shuzheng Si , Wentao Ma , Haoyu Gao , Yuchuan Wu , Ting-En Lin , Yinpei Dai , Hangyu Li , Rui Yan , Fei Huang , Yongbin Li

The use of knowledge graphs for grounding agents in real-world Q&A applications has become increasingly common. Answering complex queries often requires multi-hop reasoning and the ability to navigate vast relational structures. Standard…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Taraneh Ghandi , Hamidreza Mahyar , Shachar Klaiman

Conversational machine comprehension (MC) has proven significantly more challenging compared to traditional MC since it requires better utilization of conversation history. However, most existing approaches do not effectively capture…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Yu Chen , Lingfei Wu , Mohammed J. Zaki

Robust state tracking for task-oriented dialogue systems currently remains restricted to a few popular languages. This paper shows that given a large-scale dialogue data set in one language, we can automatically produce an effective…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Mehrad Moradshahi , Victoria Tsai , Giovanni Campagna , Monica S. Lam

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved impressive success across several fields, but their proficiency in understanding and resolving complex graph problems is less explored. To bridge this gap, we introduce GraphInstruct, a novel and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Nuo Chen , Yuhan Li , Jianheng Tang , Jia Li

MultiWOZ 2.0 (Budzianowski et al., 2018) is a recently released multi-domain dialogue dataset spanning 7 distinct domains and containing over 10,000 dialogues. Though immensely useful and one of the largest resources of its kind to-date,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Mihail Eric , Rahul Goel , Shachi Paul , Adarsh Kumar , Abhishek Sethi , Peter Ku , Anuj Kumar Goyal , Sanchit Agarwal , Shuyang Gao , Dilek Hakkani-Tur

Conversational Machine Reading (CMR) aims at answering questions in a complicated manner. Machine needs to answer questions through interactions with users based on given rule document, user scenario and dialogue history, and ask questions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Siru Ouyang , Zhuosheng Zhang , Hai Zhao

Though great progress has been made for human-machine conversation, current dialogue system is still in its infancy: it usually converses passively and utters words more as a matter of response, rather than on its own initiatives. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Wenquan Wu , Zhen Guo , Xiangyang Zhou , Hua Wu , Xiyuan Zhang , Rongzhong Lian , Haifeng Wang

Task-oriented dialogue systems have garnered significant attention due to their conversational ability to accomplish goals, such as booking airline tickets for users. Traditionally, task-oriented dialogue systems are conceptualized as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Pu-Hai Yang , Heyan Huang , Heng-Da Xu , Fanshu Sun , Xian-Ling Mao , Chaoxu Mu

Our overall program objective is to provide more natural ways for soldiers to interact and communicate with robots, much like how soldiers communicate with other soldiers today. We describe how the Wizard-of-Oz (WOz) method can be applied…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-03-13 Matthew Marge , Claire Bonial , Brendan Byrne , Taylor Cassidy , A. William Evans , Susan G. Hill , Clare Voss

Incorporating external graph knowledge into neural chatbot models has been proven effective for enhancing dialogue generation. However, in conventional graph neural networks (GNNs), message passing on a graph is independent from text,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Chen Tang , Hongbo Zhang , Tyler Loakman , Chenghua Lin , Frank Guerin

Dialogue act annotations are important to improve response generation quality in task-oriented dialogue systems. However, it can be challenging to use dialogue acts to control response generation in a generalizable way because different…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Qingyang Wu , James Gung , Raphael Shu , Yi Zhang

High-quality datasets for task-oriented dialog are crucial for the development of virtual assistants. Yet three of the most relevant large scale dialog datasets suffer from one common flaw: the dialog state update can be tracked, to a great…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Alice Shoshana Jakobovits , Francesco Piccinno , Yasemin Altun

Two types of knowledge, triples from knowledge graphs and texts from documents, have been studied for knowledge aware open-domain conversation generation, in which graph paths can narrow down vertex candidates for knowledge selection…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Zhibin Liu , Zheng-Yu Niu , Hua Wu , Haifeng Wang

A significant barrier to progress in data-driven approaches to building dialog systems is the lack of high quality, goal-oriented conversational data. To help satisfy this elementary requirement, we introduce the initial release of the…

Knowledge models are fundamental to dialogue systems for enabling conversational interactions, which require handling domain-specific knowledge. Ensuring effective communication in information-providing conversations entails aligning user…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Phillip Schneider , Nektarios Machner , Kristiina Jokinen , Florian Matthes

Most existing dialogue corpora and models have been designed to fit into 2 predominant categories : task-oriented dialogues portray functional goals, such as making a restaurant reservation or booking a plane ticket, while…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Armand Stricker , Patrick Paroubek

Integrating intelligent systems, such as robots, into dynamic group settings poses challenges due to the mutual influence of human behaviors and internal states. A robust representation of social interaction dynamics is essential for…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-06-11 J. Taery Kim , Archit Naik , Isuru Jayarathne , Sehoon Ha , Jouh Yeong Chew

Large language models have improved dialogue systems, but often process conversational turns in isolation, overlooking the event structures that guide natural interactions. Hence we introduce EventWeave, a framework that explicitly models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Zhengyi Zhao , Shubo Zhang , Yiming Du , Bin Liang , Baojun Wang , Zhongyang Li , Binyang Li , Kam-Fai Wong