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Everyday conversations require understanding everyday events, which in turn, requires understanding temporal commonsense concepts interwoven with those events. Despite recent progress with massive pre-trained language models (LMs) such as…

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In the context of chit-chat dialogues it has been shown that endowing systems with a persona profile is important to produce more coherent and meaningful conversations. Still, the representation of such personas has thus far been limited to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Thomas Scialom , Serra Sinem Tekiroglu , Jacopo Staiano , Marco Guerini

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to support creative tasks such as research idea generation. While recent work has shown that structured dialogues between LLMs can improve the novelty and feasibility of generated ideas,…

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Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT offer potential support for autistic people, but this potential requires understanding the implicit perspectives these models might carry, including their biases and assumptions about autism. Moving…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Sohyeon Park , Jesus Armando Beltran , Aehong Min , Anamara Ritt-Olson , Gillian R. Hayes

Automatic translation systems offer a powerful solution to bridge language barriers in scenarios where participants do not share a common language. However, these systems can introduce errors leading to misunderstandings and conversation…

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Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as active participants on public social media platforms, yet their behavior in these unconstrained social environments remains largely unstudied. Existing datasets, drawn primarily from…

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While most task-oriented dialogues assume conversations between the agent and one user at a time, dialogue systems are increasingly expected to communicate with multiple users simultaneously who make decisions collaboratively. To facilitate…

Agent-based modeling and simulation has evolved as a powerful tool for modeling complex systems, offering insights into emergent behaviors and interactions among diverse agents. Integrating large language models into agent-based modeling…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Chen Gao , Xiaochong Lan , Nian Li , Yuan Yuan , Jingtao Ding , Zhilun Zhou , Fengli Xu , Yong Li

Prior research has shown that typical fact-checking models for stand-alone claims struggle with claims made in dialogues. As a solution, fine-tuning these models on labelled dialogue data has been proposed. However, creating separate models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Eric Chamoun , Marzieh Saeidi , Andreas Vlachos

Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as a new paradigm for multi-agent systems. However, existing research on the behaviour of LLM-based multi-agents relies on ad hoc prompts and lacks a principled policy perspective. Different from…

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Building a socially intelligent agent involves many challenges, one of which is to teach the agent to speak guided by its value like a human. However, value-driven chatbots are still understudied in the area of dialogue systems. Most…

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Persona can function as the prior knowledge for maintaining the consistency of dialogue systems. Most of previous studies adopted the self persona in dialogue whose response was about to be selected from a set of candidates or directly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Jia-Chen Gu , Hui Liu , Zhen-Hua Ling , Quan Liu , Zhigang Chen , Xiaodan Zhu

Large language models have given social robots the ability to autonomously engage in open-domain conversations. However, they are still missing a fundamental social skill: making use of the multiple modalities that carry social…

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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

Strategic decision-making in multi-agent settings is a key challenge for large language models (LLMs), particularly when coordination and negotiation must unfold over extended conversations. While recent work has explored the use of LLMs in…

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In children's collaborative learning, effective peer conversations can significantly enhance the quality of children's collaborative interactions. The integration of Large Language Model (LLM) agents into this setting explores their novel…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Jiawen Liu , Yuanyuan Yao , Pengcheng An , Qi Wang

We introduce dodecaDialogue: a set of 12 tasks that measures if a conversational agent can communicate engagingly with personality and empathy, ask questions, answer questions by utilizing knowledge resources, discuss topics and situations,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Kurt Shuster , Da Ju , Stephen Roller , Emily Dinan , Y-Lan Boureau , Jason Weston

Multi-modal large language models have demonstrated remarkable zero-shot abilities and powerful image-understanding capabilities. However, the existing open-source multi-modal models suffer from the weak capability of multi-turn…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Yiming Lei , Zhizheng Yang , Zeming Liu , Haitao Leng , Shaoguo Liu , Tingting Gao , Qingjie Liu , Yunhong Wang

In the last decade, crowdsourcing has become a popular method for conducting quantitative empirical studies in human-machine interaction. The remote work on a given task in crowdworking settings suits the character of typical…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Annalena Aicher , Stefan Hillmann , Isabel Feustel , Thilo Michael , Sebastian Möller , Wolfgang Minker

Autoregressive models used to generate responses in open-domain dialogue systems often struggle to take long-term context into account and to maintain consistency over a dialogue. Previous research in open-domain dialogue generation has…

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