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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…

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Large Language Models (LLMs), which simulate human users, are frequently employed to evaluate chatbots in applications such as tutoring and customer service. Effective evaluation necessitates a high degree of human-like diversity within…

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Thematic jokes are central to stand-up comedy, sitcoms, and public speaking, where contexts and punchlines rely on fresh material - news, anecdotes, and cultural references that resonate with the audience. Recent advances in Large Language…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Yate Ge , Lin Tian , Chiqian Xu , Luyao Xu , Meiying Li , Yuanda Hu , Weiwei Guo

Pun generation seeks to creatively modify linguistic elements in text to produce humour or evoke double meanings. It also aims to preserve coherence and contextual appropriateness, making it useful in creative writing and entertainment…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Yuchen Su , Yonghua Zhu , Ruofan Wang , Zijian Huang , Diana Benavides-Prado , Michael Witbrock

Comedy serves as a profound reflection of the times we live in and is a staple element of human interactions. In light of the widespread adoption of Large Language Models (LLMs), the intersection of humor and AI has become no laughing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Adrianna Romanowski , Pedro H. V. Valois , Kazuhiro Fukui

Language is the principal tool for human communication, in which humor is one of the most attractive parts. Producing natural language like humans using computers, a.k.a, Natural Language Generation (NLG), has been widely used for dialogue…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Benyou Wang , Xiangbo Wu , Xiaokang Liu , Jianquan Li , Prayag Tiwari , Qianqian Xie

In this paper, we propose a simple yet effective way to generate pun sentences that does not require any training on existing puns. Our approach is inspired by humor theories that ambiguity comes from the context rather than the pun word…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Anirudh Mittal , Yufei Tian , Nanyun Peng

We present CharacterChat, a concept and chatbot to support writers in creating fictional characters. Concretely, writers progressively turn the bot into their imagined character through conversation. We iteratively developed CharacterChat…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Oliver Schmitt , Daniel Buschek

One of the most crucial components of natural human-robot interaction is artificial intuition and its influence on dialog systems. The intuitive capability that humans have is undeniably extraordinary, and so remains one of the greatest…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-11-21 N. Dianna Radpour , Vinay Ashokkumar

We present a novel approach to generating scripts by using agents with different personality types. To manage character interaction in the script, we employ simulated dramatic networks. Automatic and human evaluation on multiple criteria…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Patrícia Schmidtová , Dávid Javorský , Christián Mikláš , Tomáš Musil , Rudolf Rosa , Ondřej Dušek

The development of chatbots requires collecting a large number of human-chatbot dialogues to reflect the breadth of users' sociodemographic backgrounds and conversational goals. However, the resource requirements to conduct the respective…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Hovhannes Tamoyan , Hendrik Schuff , Iryna Gurevych

ChatGPT has the ability to generate grammatically flawless and seemingly-human replies to different types of questions from various domains. The number of its users and of its applications is growing at an unprecedented rate. Unfortunately,…

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Social chatbots have gained immense popularity, and their appeal lies not just in their capacity to respond to the diverse requests from users, but also in the ability to develop an emotional connection with users. To further develop and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Avinash Madasu , Mauajama Firdaus , Asif Eqbal

The advent of large language models (LLMs) has made it possible to generate natural written dialogues between two agents. However, generating human-like spoken dialogues from these written dialogues remains challenging. Spoken dialogues…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Kentaro Mitsui , Yukiya Hono , Kei Sawada

Large-scale language models, like ChatGPT, have garnered significant media attention and stunned the public with their remarkable capacity for generating coherent text from short natural language prompts. In this paper, we aim to conduct a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Dongqi Liu , Vera Demberg

In the era of digital transformation, customer service is of paramount importance to the success of organizations, and to meet the growing demand for immediate responses and personalized assistance 24 hours a day, chatbots have become a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Valderrama Jonatan , Aguilar-Alonso Igor

Although pre-trained sequence-to-sequence models have achieved great success in dialogue response generation, chatbots still suffer from generating inconsistent responses in real-world practice, especially in multi-turn settings. We argue…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Leyang Cui , Fandong Meng , Yijin Liu , Jie Zhou , Yue Zhang

Social chatbots have become essential intelligent companions in daily scenarios ranging from emotional support to personal interaction. However, conventional chatbots with passive response mechanisms usually rely on users to initiate or…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Zihan Niu , Zheyong Xie , Shaosheng Cao , Chonggang Lu , Zheyu Ye , Tong Xu , Zuozhu Liu , Yan Gao , Jia Chen , Zhe Xu , Yi Wu , Yao Hu

Language generation models' democratization benefits many domains, from answering health-related questions to enhancing education by providing AI-driven tutoring services. However, language generation models' democratization also makes it…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Paras Bhatt , Anthony Rios

In order to offer a customized script tool and inspire professional scriptwriters, we present VScript. It is a controllable pipeline that generates complete scripts, including dialogues and scene descriptions, as well as presents visually…

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