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Theatrical improvisation (impro or improv) is a demanding form of live, collaborative performance. Improv is a humorous and playful artform built on an open-ended narrative structure which simultaneously celebrates effort and failure. It is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-09-10 Kory W. Mathewson , Piotr Mirowski

To sustain engaging conversation, it is critical for chatbots to make good use of relevant knowledge. Equipped with a knowledge base, chatbots are able to extract conversation-related attributes and entities to facilitate context modeling…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-12 Yanran Li , Wenjie Li , Ziqiang Cao , Chengyao Chen

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

Humor is a social binding agent. It is an act of creativity that can provoke emotional reactions on a broad range of topics. Humor has long been thought to be "too human" for AI to generate. However, humans are complex, and humor requires…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Sean Kim , Lydia B. Chilton

We propose ChatGPT-EDSS, an empathetic dialogue speech synthesis (EDSS) method using ChatGPT for extracting dialogue context. ChatGPT is a chatbot that can deeply understand the content and purpose of an input prompt and appropriately…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Yuki Saito , Shinnosuke Takamichi , Eiji Iimori , Kentaro Tachibana , Hiroshi Saruwatari

APIs are everywhere; they provide access to automation solutions that could help businesses automate some of their tasks. Unfortunately, they may not be accessible to the business users who need them but are not equipped with the necessary…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Siyu Huo , Kushal Mukherjee , Jayachandu Bandlamudi , Vatche Isahagian , Vinod Muthusamy , Yara Rizk

This paper discusses OpenAIs ChatGPT, a generative pre-trained transformer, which uses natural language processing to fulfill text-based user requests (i.e., a chatbot). The history and principles behind ChatGPT and similar models are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Brady Lund , Ting Wang , Nishith Reddy Mannuru , Bing Nie , Somipam Shimray , Ziang Wang

Laughter serves as a multifaceted communicative signal in human interaction, yet its identification within dialogue presents a significant challenge for conversational AI systems. This study addresses this challenge by annotating laughable…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Koji Inoue , Mikey Elmers , Divesh Lala , Tatsuya Kawahara

Humor is a natural and fundamental component of human interactions. When correctly applied, humor allows us to express thoughts and feelings conveniently and effectively, increasing interpersonal affection, likeability, and trust. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Felipe Godoy

Personalized dialogue systems aim to endow the chatbot agent with more anthropomorphic traits for human-like interactions. Previous approaches have explored explicitly user profile modeling using text descriptions, implicit derivation of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Zhenyi Lu , Wei Wei , Xiaoye Qu , XianLing Mao , Dangyang Chen , Jixiong Chen

The recently released ChatGPT has demonstrated surprising abilities in natural language understanding and natural language generation. Machine translation relies heavily on the abilities of language understanding and generation. Thus, in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Yuan Gao , Ruili Wang , Feng Hou

Fact-based dialogue generation is a task of generating a human-like response based on both dialogue context and factual texts. Various methods were proposed to focus on generating informative words that contain facts effectively. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Ryota Tanaka , Akinobu Lee

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

Innovation is a key component in trying new solutions for the students to learn efficiently and in ways that correspond to their own experience, where chatbots are one of these new solutions. One of the main problem that chatbots face today…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Dimitrios Chaskopoulos , Jonas Eilertsen Hægdahl , Petter Sagvold , Claire Trinquet , Maryam Edalati

The rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology and its impact on education has been a topic of growing concern in recent years. The new generation AI systems such as chatbots have become more accessible on the Internet and stronger in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Mohammad Khalil , Erkan Er

Often, a good explanation for a program's unexpected behavior is a bug in the programmer's code. But sometimes, an even better explanation is a bug in the programmer's mental model of the language or API they are using. Instead of merely…

The consistency of a response to a given post at semantic-level and emotional-level is essential for a dialogue system to deliver human-like interactions. However, this challenge is not well addressed in the literature, since most of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Wei Wei , Jiayi Liu , Xianling Mao , Guibing Guo , Feida Zhu , Pan Zhou , Yuchong Hu

The lack of time-efficient and reliable evaluation methods hamper the development of conversational dialogue systems (chatbots). Evaluations requiring humans to converse with chatbots are time and cost-intensive, put high cognitive demands…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Jan Deriu , Don Tuggener , Pius von Däniken , Jon Ander Campos , Alvaro Rodrigo , Thiziri Belkacem , Aitor Soroa , Eneko Agirre , Mark Cieliebak

Storytelling plays a central role in human socializing and entertainment. However, much of the research on automatic storytelling generation assumes that stories will be generated by an agent without any human interaction. In this paper, we…

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