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Knowing how to end and resume conversations over time is a natural part of communication, allowing for discussions to span weeks, months, or years. The duration of gaps between conversations dictates which topics are relevant and which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Qiang Zhang , Jason Naradowsky , Yusuke Miyao

The study illustrates a first step towards an ongoing work aimed at developing a dataset of dialogues potentially useful for customer service conversation management between humans and AI chatbots. The approach exploits ChatGPT 3.5 to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Alfredo Cuzzocrea , Giovanni Pilato , Pablo Garcia Bringas

Modeling human conversations is the essence for building satisfying chat-bots with multi-turn dialog ability. Conversation modeling will notably benefit from domain knowledge since the relationships between sentences can be clarified due to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-02-07 Zhen Xu , Bingquan Liu , Baoxun Wang , Chengjie Sun , Xiaolong Wang

To alleviate the problem of structured databases' limited coverage, recent task-oriented dialogue systems incorporate external unstructured knowledge to guide the generation of system responses. However, these usually use word or sentence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Yue Feng , Gerasimos Lampouras , Ignacio Iacobacci

Automatic question generation is an important technique that can improve the training of question answering, help chatbots to start or continue a conversation with humans, and provide assessment materials for educational purposes. Existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-28 Bang Liu , Mingjun Zhao , Di Niu , Kunfeng Lai , Yancheng He , Haojie Wei , Yu Xu

How to incorporate external knowledge into a neural dialogue model is critically important for dialogue systems to behave like real humans. To handle this problem, memory networks are usually a great choice and a promising way. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-26 Zehao Lin , Xinjing Huang , Feng Ji , Haiqing Chen , Ying Zhang

The use of connectionist approaches in conversational agents has been progressing rapidly due to the availability of large corpora. However current generative dialogue models often lack coherence and are content poor. This work proposes an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-17 Prasanna Parthasarathi , Joelle Pineau

As a key component in a dialogue system, dialogue state tracking plays an important role. It is very important for dialogue state tracking to deal with the problem of unknown slot values. As far as we known, almost all existing approaches…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Puhai Yang , Heyan Huang , Xian-Ling Mao

Compared to traditional visual question answering, video-grounded dialogues require additional reasoning over dialogue context to answer questions in a multi-turn setting. Previous approaches to video-grounded dialogues mostly use dialogue…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Hung Le , Nancy F. Chen , Steven C. H. Hoi

Generating follow-up questions on the fly could significantly improve conversational survey quality and user experiences by enabling a more dynamic and personalized survey structure. In this paper, we proposed a novel task for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Yubin Ge , Ziang Xiao , Jana Diesner , Heng Ji , Karrie Karahalios , Hari Sundaram

Neural network models are capable of generating extremely natural sounding conversational interactions. Nevertheless, these models have yet to demonstrate that they can incorporate content in the form of factual information or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-19 Marjan Ghazvininejad , Chris Brockett , Ming-Wei Chang , Bill Dolan , Jianfeng Gao , Wen-tau Yih , Michel Galley

For dialogue response generation, traditional generative models generate responses solely from input queries. Such models rely on insufficient information for generating a specific response since a certain query could be answered in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-02 Deng Cai , Yan Wang , Victoria Bi , Zhaopeng Tu , Xiaojiang Liu , Wai Lam , Shuming Shi

Large Language Models are now key assistants in human decision-making processes. However, a common note always seems to follow: "LLMs can make mistakes. Be careful with important info." This points to the reality that not all outputs from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Longchao Da , Parth Mitesh Shah , Kuan-Ru Liou , Jiaxing Zhang , Hua Wei

Recently, the topic-grounded dialogue (TGD) system has become increasingly popular as its powerful capability to actively guide users to accomplish specific tasks through topic-guided conversations. Most existing works utilize side…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Shixuan Fan , Wei Wei , Xiaofei Wen , Xianling Mao , Jixiong Chen , Dangyang Chen

Large pre-trained language models have exhibited unprecedented capabilities in producing high-quality text via prompting techniques. This fact introduces new possibilities for data collection and annotation, particularly in situations where…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Tiziano Labruna , Sofia Brenna , Andrea Zaninello , Bernardo Magnini

End-to-End intelligent neural dialogue systems suffer from the problems of generating inconsistent and repetitive responses. Existing dialogue models pay attention to unilaterally incorporating personal knowledge into the dialog while…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Yajing Sun , Yue Hu , Luxi Xing , Yuqiang Xie , Xiangpeng Wei

Developing an efficient retriever to retrieve knowledge from a large-scale knowledge base (KB) is critical for task-oriented dialogue systems to effectively handle localized and specialized tasks. However, widely used generative models such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Weizhou Shen , Yingqi Gao , Canbin Huang , Fanqi Wan , Xiaojun Quan , Wei Bi

Existing open-domain dialogue generation models are usually trained to mimic the gold response in the training set using cross-entropy loss on the vocabulary. However, a good response does not need to resemble the gold response, since there…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Wei-Jen Ko , Avik Ray , Yilin Shen , Hongxia Jin

End-to-end generation-based approaches have been investigated and applied in task-oriented dialogue systems. However, in industrial scenarios, existing methods face the bottlenecks of controllability (e.g., domain-inconsistent responses,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Yuncheng Hua , Xiangyu Xi , Zheng Jiang , Guanwei Zhang , Chaobo Sun , Guanglu Wan , Wei Ye

Knowledge graph-based dialogue systems can narrow down knowledge candidates for generating informative and diverse responses with the use of prior information, e.g., triple attributes or graph paths. However, most current knowledge graph…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Hongcai Xu , Junpeng Bao , Junqing Wang