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The use of chatbots has spread, generating great interest in the industry for the possibility of automating tasks within the execution of their processes. The implementation of chatbots, however simple, is a complex endeavor that involves…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Bedilia Estrada-Torres , Adela del-Río-Ortega , Manuel Resinas

We propose a method to fuse frozen text-only large language models (LLMs) with pre-trained image encoder and decoder models, by mapping between their embedding spaces. Our model demonstrates a wide suite of multimodal capabilities: image…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Jing Yu Koh , Daniel Fried , Ruslan Salakhutdinov

Generating natural, diverse, and meaningful questions from images is an essential task for multimodal assistants as it confirms whether they have understood the object and scene in the images properly. The research in visual question…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Alkesh Patel , Akanksha Bindal , Hadas Kotek , Christopher Klein , Jason Williams

Access to mental health support remains limited, particularly in marginalized communities where structural and cultural barriers hinder timely care. This paper explores the potential of AI-enabled chatbots as a scalable solution, focusing…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Rawan AlMakinah , Andrea Norcini-Pala , Lindsey Disney , M. Abdullah Canbaz

Compared to single-turn dialogue, multi-turn dialogue involving multiple images better aligns with the needs of real-world human-AI interactions. Additionally, as training data, it provides richer contextual reasoning information, thereby…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Dawei Yan , Yang Li , Qing-Guo Chen , Weihua Luo , Peng Wang , Haokui Zhang , Chunhua Shen

The ubiquitous nature of chatbots and their interaction with users generate an enormous amount of data. Can we improve chatbots using this data? A self-feeding chatbot improves itself by asking natural language feedback when a user is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Makesh Narsimhan Sreedhar , Kun Ni , Siva Reddy

Human conversation is a complex mechanism with subtle nuances. It is hence an ambitious goal to develop artificial intelligence agents that can participate fluently in a conversation. While we are still far from achieving this goal, recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-30 Unnat Jain , Svetlana Lazebnik , Alexander Schwing

Recently, utilizing deep neural networks to build the opendomain dialogue models has become a hot topic. However, the responses generated by these models suffer from many problems such as responses not being contextualized and tend to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Mengjuan Liu , Chenyang Liu , Yunfan Yang , Jiang Liu , Mohan Jing

Conversational generative vision models (CGVMs) like Visual ChatGPT (Wu et al., 2023) have recently emerged from the synthesis of computer vision and natural language processing techniques. These models enable more natural and interactive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Narjes Nikzad Khasmakhi , Meysam Asgari-Chenaghlu , Nabiha Asghar , Philipp Schaer , Dietlind Zühlke

ChatGPT explores a strategic blueprint of question answering (QA) in delivering medical diagnosis, treatment recommendations, and other healthcare support. This is achieved through the increasing incorporation of medical domain data via…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Qing Li , Lei Li , Yu Li

We present an approach to improve statistical machine translation of image descriptions by multimodal pivots defined in visual space. The key idea is to perform image retrieval over a database of images that are captioned in the target…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Julian Hitschler , Shigehiko Schamoni , Stefan Riezler

A proactive dialogue system has the ability to proactively lead the conversation. Different from the general chatbots which only react to the user, proactive dialogue systems can be used to achieve some goals, e.g., to recommend some items…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Yutao Zhu , Jian-Yun Nie , Kun Zhou , Pan Du , Hao Jiang , Zhicheng Dou

Open-domain conversational agents or chatbots are becoming increasingly popular in the natural language processing community. One of the challenges is enabling them to converse in an empathetic manner. Current neural response generation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Anuradha Welivita , Pearl Pu

The task of visual dialog requires a multimodal chatbot to answer sequential questions from humans about image content. Prior work performs the standard likelihood training for answer generation on the positive instances (involving correct…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Zihao Wang , Junli Wang , Changjun Jiang

The proliferation of assistive chatbots offering efficient, personalized communication has driven widespread over-reliance on them for decision-making, information-seeking and everyday tasks. This dependence was found to have adverse…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Hala Sheta

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

Large language models (LLMs) have exhibited remarkable capabilities across a variety of domains and tasks, challenging our understanding of learning and cognition. Despite the recent success, current LLMs are not capable of processing…

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have shown remarkable performance in vision-language tasks. However, existing MLLMs are primarily trained on generic datasets, limiting their ability to reason on domain-specific visual cues such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Hatef Otroshi Shahreza , Sébastien Marcel

In this paper, we investigate the use of large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT for document-grounded response generation in the context of information-seeking dialogues. For evaluation, we use the MultiDoc2Dial corpus of task-oriented…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Norbert Braunschweiler , Rama Doddipatla , Simon Keizer , Svetlana Stoyanchev

We present a large, tunable neural conversational response generation model, DialoGPT (dialogue generative pre-trained transformer). Trained on 147M conversation-like exchanges extracted from Reddit comment chains over a period spanning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Yizhe Zhang , Siqi Sun , Michel Galley , Yen-Chun Chen , Chris Brockett , Xiang Gao , Jianfeng Gao , Jingjing Liu , Bill Dolan