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Testing humanoid robots with users is slow, causes wear, and limits iteration and diversity. Yet screening agents must master conversational timing, prosody, backchannels, and what to attend to in faces and speech for Depression and PTSD.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Filippo Cenacchi , Deborah Richards , Longbing Cao

Dialogue structure discovery is essential in dialogue generation. Well-structured topic flow can leverage background information and predict future topics to help generate controllable and explainable responses. However, most previous work…

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We present MEDCOD, a Medically-Accurate, Emotive, Diverse, and Controllable Dialog system with a unique approach to the natural language generator module. MEDCOD has been developed and evaluated specifically for the history taking task. It…

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Understanding and characterizing how people interact in information-seeking conversations is crucial in developing conversational search systems. In this paper, we introduce a new dataset designed for this purpose and use it to analyze…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-04-25 Chen Qu , Liu Yang , W. Bruce Croft , Johanne R. Trippas , Yongfeng Zhang , Minghui Qiu

Multi-modal multi-party conversation (MMC) is a less studied yet important topic of research due to that it well fits real-world scenarios and thus potentially has more widely-used applications. Compared with the traditional multi-modal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Yueqian Wang , Xiaojun Meng , Yuxuan Wang , Jianxin Liang , Qun Liu , Dongyan Zhao

The primary aim of this research was to address the limitations observed in the medical knowledge of prevalent large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT, by creating a specialized language model with enhanced accuracy in medical advice.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Yunxiang Li , Zihan Li , Kai Zhang , Ruilong Dan , Steve Jiang , You Zhang

Existing studies on talking video generation have predominantly focused on single-person monologues or isolated facial animations, limiting their applicability to realistic multi-human interactions. To bridge this gap, we introduce MIT, a…

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With the advancement of large language models, many dialogue systems are now capable of providing reasonable and informative responses to patients' medical conditions. However, when patients consult their doctor, they may experience…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Shang-Chi Tsai , Yun-Nung Chen

This paper introduces the Ubuntu Dialogue Corpus, a dataset containing almost 1 million multi-turn dialogues, with a total of over 7 million utterances and 100 million words. This provides a unique resource for research into building…

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Psychotherapy or counseling is typically conducted through spoken conversation between a therapist and a client. Analyzing the speech characteristics of psychotherapeutic interactions can help understand the factors associated with…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-05 Dehua Tao , Harold Chui , Sarah Luk , Tan Lee

The goal of building intelligent dialogue systems has largely been separately pursued under two motives: task-oriented dialogue (TOD) systems, and open-domain systems for chit-chat (CC). Although previous TOD dialogue systems work well in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Changhong Yu , Chunhong Zhang , Qi Sun

Artificial intelligence has demonstrated significant potential in clinical decision-making; however, developing models capable of adapting to diverse real-world scenarios and performing complex diagnostic reasoning remains a major…

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Research into COVID-19 is a big challenge and highly relevant at the moment. New tools are required to assist medical experts in their research with relevant and valuable information. The COVID-19 Open Research Dataset Challenge (CORD-19)…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Hermann Kroll , Jan Pirklbauer , Johannes Ruthmann , Wolf-Tilo Balke

Multi-modal large language models have demonstrated remarkable zero-shot abilities and powerful image-understanding capabilities. However, the existing open-source multi-modal models suffer from the weak capability of multi-turn…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Yiming Lei , Zhizheng Yang , Zeming Liu , Haitao Leng , Shaoguo Liu , Tingting Gao , Qingjie Liu , Yunhong Wang

Spurred by recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs), virtual assistants are poised to take a leap forward in terms of their dialogue capabilities. Yet a major bottleneck to achieving genuinely transformative task-oriented dialogue…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Joe Stacey , Jianpeng Cheng , John Torr , Tristan Guigue , Joris Driesen , Alexandru Coca , Mark Gaynor , Anders Johannsen

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

The clinical diagnosis of most mental disorders primarily relies on the conversations between psychiatrist and patient. The creation of such diagnostic conversation datasets is promising to boost the AI mental healthcare community. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Congchi Yin , Feng Li , Shu Zhang , Zike Wang , Jun Shao , Piji Li , Jianhua Chen , Xun Jiang

As chatbots continue to evolve toward human-like, real-world, interactions, multimodality remains an active area of research and exploration. So far, efforts to integrate multimodality into chatbots have primarily focused on image-centric…

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Neural network-based dialog systems are attracting increasing attention in both academia and industry. Recently, researchers have begun to realize the importance of speaker modeling in neural dialog systems, but there lacks established…

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