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Instant-messaging human social chat typically progresses through a sequence of short messages. Existing step-by-step AI chatting systems typically split a one-shot generation into multiple messages and send them sequentially, but they lack…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Hao Yang , Hongyuan Lu , Dingkang Yang , Wenliang Yang , Peng Sun , Xiaochuan Zhang , Jun Xiao , Kefan He , Wai Lam , Yang Liu , Xinhua Zeng

Humor is a fundamental facet of human cognition and interaction. Yet, despite recent advances in natural language processing, humor detection remains a challenging task that is complicated by the scarcity of datasets that pair humorous…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Zachary Horvitz , Jingru Chen , Rahul Aditya , Harshvardhan Srivastava , Robert West , Zhou Yu , Kathleen McKeown

Recently, research into chatbots (also known as conversational agents, AI agents, voice assistants), which are computer applications using artificial intelligence to mimic human-like conversation, has grown sharply. Despite this growth,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Celeste Campos-Castillo , Xuan Kang , Linnea I. Laestadius

A Chatbot serves as a communication tool between a human user and a machine to achieve an appropriate answer based on the human input. In more recent approaches, a combination of Natural Language Processing and sequential models are used to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Nura Esfandiari , Kourosh Kiani , Razieh Rastgoo

The rapid development of the Internet has profoundly changed human life. Humans are increasingly expressing themselves and interacting with others on social media platforms. However, although artificial intelligence technology has been…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Haochen Xue , Chong Zhang , Chengzhi Liu , Fangyu Wu , Xiaobo Jin

Humor recognition has been widely studied as a text classification problem using data-driven approaches. However, most existing work does not examine the actual joke mechanism to understand humor. We break down any joke into two distinct…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Yubo Xie , Junze Li , Pearl Pu

New chat AI applications like ChatGPT offer an advanced understanding of question context and memory across multi-step tasks, such that experiments can test its deductive reasoning. This paper proposes a multi-role and multi-step challenge,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-01-05 David Noever , Forrest McKee

In this paper we discuss approaches to evaluating and validating the ethical claims of a Conversational AI system. We outline considerations around both a top-down regulatory approach and bottom-up processes. We describe the ethical basis…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-06-19 Elayne Ruane , Vivek Nallur

Conversational AI assistants are becoming popular and question-answering is an important part of any conversational assistant. Using relevant utterances as features in question-answering has shown to improve both the precision and recall…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-09 Soham Parikh , Quaizar Vohra , Mitul Tiwari

The best improvisational theatre actors can make any scene partner, of any skill level or ability, appear talented and proficient in the art form, and thus "make them shine". To challenge this improvisational paradigm, we built an…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Kory Wallace Mathewson , Piotr Mirowski

We argue that a key reasoning skill that any advanced AI, say GPT-4, should master in order to qualify as 'thinking machine', or AGI, is hypothetic-deductive reasoning. Problem-solving or question-answering can quite generally be construed…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Louis Vervoort , Vitaliy Mizyakov , Anastasia Ugleva

As dialogue systems and chatbots increasingly integrate into everyday interactions, the need for efficient and accurate evaluation methods becomes paramount. This study explores the comparative performance of human and AI assessments across…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Ike Ebubechukwu , Johane Takeuchi , Antonello Ceravola , Frank Joublin

Generative AI (GenAI) chatbots are becoming increasingly integrated into virtual assistant technologies, yet their success hinges on the ability to gather meaningful user feedback to improve interaction quality, system outcomes, and overall…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Janet Rafner , Ryan Q. Guloy , Eden W. Wen , Catherine M. Chiodo , Jacob Sherson

Role-playing chatbots built on large language models have drawn interest, but better techniques are needed to enable mimicking specific fictional characters. We propose an algorithm that controls language models via an improved prompt and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Cheng Li , Ziang Leng , Chenxi Yan , Junyi Shen , Hao Wang , Weishi MI , Yaying Fei , Xiaoyang Feng , Song Yan , HaoSheng Wang , Linkang Zhan , Yaokai Jia , Pingyu Wu , Haozhen Sun

Large language models can be used for collaborative storytelling. In this work we report on using GPT-3 \cite{brown2020language} to co-narrate stories. The AI system must track plot progression and character arcs while the human actors…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Boyd Branch , Piotr Mirowski , Kory W. Mathewson

The main aim of this paper is to introduce automated generation of scripted dialogue as a worthwhile topic of investigation. In particular the fact that scripted dialogue involves two layers of communication, i.e., uni-directional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Paul Piwek , Kees van Deemter

With the ongoing penetration of conversational user interfaces, a better understanding of social and emotional characteristic inherent to dialogue is required. Chatbots in particular face the challenge of conveying human-like behaviour…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Natascha Mariacher , Stephan Schlögl , Alexander Monz

This article explores the phenomenon of confirmation bias in generative AI chatbots, a relatively underexamined aspect of AI-human interaction. Drawing on cognitive psychology and computational linguistics, it examines how confirmation…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Yiran Du

Automated humor generation with Large Language Models (LLMs) often yields jokes that feel generic, repetitive, or tone-deaf because humor is deeply situated and hinges on the listener's cultural background, mindset, and immediate context.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Shivam Dubey

Driven by ongoing improvements in machine learning, chatbots have increasingly grown from experimental interface prototypes to reliable and robust tools for process automation. Building on these advances, companies have identified various…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Alessandro Casadei , Stephan Schlögl , Markus Bergmann