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Dialogic learning fosters motivation and deeper understanding in education through purposeful and structured dialogues. Foundational models offer a transformative potential for child-robot interactions, enabling the design of personalized,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Elena Malnatsky , Shenghui Wang , Koen V. Hindriks , Mike E. U. Ligthart

This study investigated effective strategies for developing a custom GPT to code classroom dialogue. While classroom dialogue is widely recognised as a crucial element of education, its analysis remains challenging due to the need for a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Luwei Bai , Dongkeun Han , Sara Hennessy

We describe a two-step approach for dialogue management in task-oriented spoken dialogue systems. A unified neural network framework is proposed to enable the system to first learn by supervision from a set of dialogue data and then…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-06-09 Pei-Hao Su , Milica Gasic , Nikola Mrksic , Lina Rojas-Barahona , Stefan Ultes , David Vandyke , Tsung-Hsien Wen , Steve Young

This study investigates the design, development, and evaluation of a Large Language Model (LLM)-based chatbot for teaching English conversations in an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) context. Employing the Design and Development…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Jaekwon Park , Jiyoung Bae , Unggi Lee , Taekyung Ahn , Sookbun Lee , Dohee Kim , Aram Choi , Yeil Jeong , Jewoong Moon , Hyeoncheol Kim

Nowadays, the current neural network models of dialogue generation(chatbots) show great promise for generating answers for chatty agents. But they are short-sighted in that they predict utterances one at a time while disregarding their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Jabri Ismail , Aboulbichr Ahmed , El ouaazizi Aziza

Conversational practice, while crucial for all language learners, can be challenging to get enough of and very expensive. Chatbots are computer programs developed to engage in conversations with humans. They are designed as software avatars…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Jasna Petrovic , Mladjan Jovanovic

Dialog systems research has primarily been focused around two main types of applications - task-oriented dialog systems that learn to use clarification to aid in understanding a goal, and open-ended dialog systems that are expected to carry…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-29 Aishwarya Padmakumar , Raymond J. Mooney

Dialogue systems play an increasingly important role in various aspects of our daily life. It is evident from recent research that dialogue systems trained on human conversation data are biased. In particular, they can produce responses…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Haochen Liu , Wentao Wang , Yiqi Wang , Hui Liu , Zitao Liu , Jiliang Tang

In this paper, we propose Tutoring bot, a generative chatbot trained on a large scale of tutor-student conversations for English-language learning. To mimic a human tutor's behavior in language education, the tutor bot leverages diverse…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-02-27 Hyungjoo Chae , Minjin Kim , Chaehyeong Kim , Wonseok Jeong , Hyejoong Kim , Junmyung Lee , Jinyoung Yeo

LLM-driven dialog systems are used in a diverse set of applications, ranging from healthcare to customer service. However, given their generalization capability, it is difficult to ensure that these chatbots stay within the boundaries of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Stuti Agrawal , Nishi Uppuluri , Pranav Pillai , Revanth Gangi Reddy , Zoey Li , Gokhan Tur , Dilek Hakkani-Tur , Heng Ji

Simulation is an invaluable tool for developing and evaluating controllers for self-driving cars. Current simulation frameworks are driven by highly-specialist domain specific languages, and so a natural language interface would greatly…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Antonio Valerio Miceli-Barone , Alex Lascarides , Craig Innes

How can we test whether state-of-the-art generative models, such as Blender and GPT-3, are good AI teachers, capable of replying to a student in an educational dialogue? Designing an AI teacher test is challenging: although evaluation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Anaïs Tack , Chris Piech

Dialogue policy learning based on reinforcement learning is difficult to be applied to real users to train dialogue agents from scratch because of the high cost. User simulators, which choose random user goals for the dialogue agent to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Yangyang Zhao , Zhenyu Wang , Zhenhua Huang

Open-domain dialog systems (also known as chatbots) have increasingly drawn attention in natural language processing. Some of the recent work aims at incorporating affect information into sequence-to-sequence neural dialog modeling, making…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Yubo Xie , Ekaterina Svikhnushina , Pearl Pu

Generative AI offers significant opportunities for language learning. Tools like ChatGPT can provide informal second language practice through chats in written or voice forms, with the learner specifying through prompts conversational…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Robert Godwin-Jones

Much literature has shown that prompt-based learning is an efficient method to make use of the large pre-trained language model. Recent works also exhibit the possibility of steering a chatbot's output by plugging in an appropriate prompt.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Hsuan Su , Pohan Chi , Shih-Cheng Huang , Chung Ho Lam , Saurav Sahay , Shang-Tse Chen , Hung-yi Lee

Despite widespread interests in reinforcement-learning for task-oriented dialogue systems, several obstacles can frustrate research and development progress. First, reinforcement learners typically require interaction with the environment,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Xiujun Li , Zachary C. Lipton , Bhuwan Dhingra , Lihong Li , Jianfeng Gao , Yun-Nung Chen

Encoder-decoder based neural architectures serve as the basis of state-of-the-art approaches in end-to-end open domain dialog systems. Since most of such systems are trained with a maximum likelihood~(MLE) objective they suffer from issues…

Existing dialogue models may encounter scenarios which are not well-represented in the training data, and as a result generate responses that are unnatural, inappropriate, or unhelpful. We propose the "Ask an Expert" framework in which the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Qiang Zhang , Jason Naradowsky , Yusuke Miyao

Recent neural models of dialogue generation offer great promise for generating responses for conversational agents, but tend to be shortsighted, predicting utterances one at a time while ignoring their influence on future outcomes. Modeling…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-09-30 Jiwei Li , Will Monroe , Alan Ritter , Michel Galley , Jianfeng Gao , Dan Jurafsky