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Conversational systems can be particularly effective in supporting complex information seeking scenarios with evolving information needs. Finding the right products on an e-commerce platform is one such scenario, where a conversational…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Nolwenn Bernard , Krisztian Balog

This paper addresses the gap in predicting turn-taking and backchannel actions in human-machine conversations using multi-modal signals (linguistic, acoustic, and visual). To overcome the limitation of existing datasets, we propose an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Yuxin Lin , Yinglin Zheng , Ming Zeng , Wangzheng Shi

We present a new human-human dialogue dataset - PhotoChat, the first dataset that casts light on the photo sharing behavior in onlin emessaging. PhotoChat contains 12k dialogues, each of which is paired with a user photo that is shared…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Xiaoxue Zang , Lijuan Liu , Maria Wang , Yang Song , Hao Zhang , Jindong Chen

We study conversational dialog in which there are many possible responses to a given history. We present the MultiTalk Dataset, a corpus of over 320,000 sentences of written conversational dialog that balances a high branching factor (10)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Yao Dou , Maxwell Forbes , Ari Holtzman , Yejin Choi

Training statistical dialog models in spoken dialog systems (SDS) requires large amounts of annotated data. The lack of scalable methods for data mining and annotation poses a significant hurdle for state-of-the-art statistical dialog…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-06-28 Lu Wang , Larry Heck , Dilek Hakkani-Tur

Interactive sentiment analysis is an emerging, yet challenging, subtask of the sentiment analysis problem. It aims to discover the affective state and sentimental change of each person in a conversation. Existing sentiment analysis…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Yazhou Zhang , Lingling Song , Dawei Song , Peng Guo , Junwei Zhang , Peng Zhang

Understanding the connections between unstructured text and semi-structured table is an important yet neglected problem in natural language processing. In this work, we focus on content-based table retrieval. Given a query, the task is to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-06-09 Zhao Yan , Duyu Tang , Nan Duan , Junwei Bao , Yuanhua Lv , Ming Zhou , Zhoujun Li

A pressing challenge in current dialogue systems is to successfully converse with users on topics with information distributed across different modalities. Previous work in multiturn dialogue systems has primarily focused on either text or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Kai Nakamura , Sharon Levy , Yi-Lin Tuan , Wenhu Chen , William Yang 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

Human conversations are complicated and building a human-like dialogue agent is an extremely challenging task. With the rapid development of deep learning techniques, data-driven models become more and more prevalent which need a huge…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-25 Meng Chen , Ruixue Liu , Lei Shen , Shaozu Yuan , Jingyan Zhou , Youzheng Wu , Xiaodong He , Bowen Zhou

Next generation task-oriented dialog systems need to understand conversational contexts with their perceived surroundings, to effectively help users in the real-world multimodal environment. Existing task-oriented dialog datasets aimed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Satwik Kottur , Seungwhan Moon , Alborz Geramifard , Babak Damavandi

We propose a new task of conversational recommendation over multi-type dialogs, where the bots can proactively and naturally lead a conversation from a non-recommendation dialog (e.g., QA) to a recommendation dialog, taking into account…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-25 Zeming Liu , Haifeng Wang , Zheng-Yu Niu , Hua Wu , Wanxiang Che , Ting Liu

This work presents a new dialog dataset, CookDial, that facilitates research on task-oriented dialog systems with procedural knowledge understanding. The corpus contains 260 human-to-human task-oriented dialogs in which an agent, given a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Yiwei Jiang , Klim Zaporojets , Johannes Deleu , Thomas Demeester , Chris Develder

How can we better understand the mechanisms behind multi-turn information seeking dialogues? How can we use these insights to design a dialogue system that does not require explicit query formulation upfront as in question answering? To…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Svitlana Vakulenko , Vadim Savenkov , Maarten de Rijke

Large language models excel at following explicit instructions, but they often struggle with ambiguous or incomplete user requests, defaulting to verbose, generic responses instead of seeking clarification. We introduce InfoQuest, a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Bryan L. M. de Oliveira , Luana G. B. Martins , Bruno Brandão , Luckeciano C. Melo

A significant barrier to progress in data-driven approaches to building dialog systems is the lack of high quality, goal-oriented conversational data. To help satisfy this elementary requirement, we introduce the initial release of the…

Current dialogue systems are not very engaging for users, especially when trained end-to-end without relying on proactive reengaging scripted strategies. Zhang et al. (2018) showed that the engagement level of end-to-end dialogue models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-07 Pierre-Emmanuel Mazaré , Samuel Humeau , Martin Raison , Antoine Bordes

We introduce DataTales, a novel benchmark designed to assess the proficiency of language models in data narration, a task crucial for transforming complex tabular data into accessible narratives. Existing benchmarks often fall short in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Yajing Yang , Qian Liu , Min-Yen Kan

Information Extraction is a well-researched area of Natural Language Processing with applications in web search and question answering concerned with identifying entities and relationships between them as expressed in a given context,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Erin Macdonald , Denilson Barbosa

Data plays a vital role in machine learning studies. In the research of recommendation, both user behaviors and side information are helpful to model users. So, large-scale real scenario datasets with abundant user behaviors will contribute…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Bin Hao , Min Zhang , Weizhi Ma , Shaoyun Shi , Xinxing Yu , Houzhi Shan , Yiqun Liu , Shaoping Ma