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Machine learning techniques have conquered many different tasks in speech and natural language processing, such as speech recognition, information extraction, text and speech generation, and human machine interaction using natural language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Sebastian Möller , Pia Knoeferle , Britta Schulte , Nils Feldhus

Anthropomorphism, or the attribution of human-like characteristics to non-human entities, has shaped conversations about the impacts and possibilities of technology. We present AnthroScore, an automatic metric of implicit anthropomorphism…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Myra Cheng , Kristina Gligoric , Tiziano Piccardi , Dan Jurafsky

Large language models (LLMs) and dialogue agents represent a significant shift in artificial intelligence (AI) research, particularly with the recent release of the GPT family of models. ChatGPT's generative capabilities and versatility…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Skyler Wang , Ned Cooper , Margaret Eby

Integration, composition, mechanization, and AI assisted development are the driving themes in the future of software development. At their core these concepts are rooted in the increasingly important role of computing in our world, the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Mark Marron

Anthropomorphic language describing artificial intelligence (AI) is widespread in media, policy, and everyday discourse; so too are discussions of AI bad behavior, from hallucinations to inappropriate comments. How does humanizing language…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Jaime Banks , Nicholas David Bowman , Roman Saladino

Dialogue systems without consistent responses are not fascinating. In this study, we build a dialogue system that can respond based on a given character setting (persona) to bring consistency. Considering the trend of the rapidly increasing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Tomohito Kasahara , Daisuke Kawahara , Nguyen Tung , Shengzhe Li , Kenta Shinzato , Toshinori Sato

Notwithstanding the tremendous progress that is taking place in spoken language technology, effective speech-based human-robot interaction still raises a number of important challenges. Not only do the fields of robotics and spoken language…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Roger K. Moore

Customization has long been a central goal in interactive systems, yet prior work shows that end-user tailoring occurs infrequently and is often confined to initial setup or moments of breakdown. Recent advances in generative AI suggest…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Karthik Sreedhar , Aryan Kaul , Lydia B. Chilton

Abstractive dialogue summarization has received increasing attention recently. Despite the fact that most of the current dialogue summarization systems are trained to maximize the likelihood of human-written summaries and have achieved…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Jiaao Chen , Mohan Dodda , Diyi Yang

The goal of this talk is to introduce a systematic research agenda which aims to understand the nature of interaction between humans and artificial conversational agents (CA) (henceforth humanmachine interaction, HMI). Specifically, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Martina Wiltschko

This paper explains why scripted dialogue shares some crucial properties with discourse. In particular, when scripted dialogues are generated by a Natural Language Generation system, the generator can apply revision strategies that cannot…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Paul Piwek , Kees van Deemter

System prompts - instructions that shape the behaviour of generative AI systems - strongly influence system outputs and users' experiences. They define the model's guidelines, `personality', and guardrails, taking precedence over user…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Anna Neumann , Yulu Pi , Jatinder Singh

Chatbots are intelligent conversational computer systems designed to mimic human conversation to enable automated online guidance and support. The increased benefits of chatbots led to their wide adoption by many industries in order to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Guendalina Caldarini , Sardar Jaf , Kenneth McGarry

Artificial intelligence (AI) systems can cause harm to people. This research examines how individuals react to such harm through the lens of blame. Building upon research suggesting that people blame AI systems, we investigated how several…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Gabriel Lima , Nina Grgić-Hlača , Meeyoung Cha

The summarization of conversation, that is, discourse over discourse, elevates pragmatic considerations as a pervasive limitation of both summarization and other applications of contemporary conversational AI. Building on impressive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-01 S. M. Seals , Valerie L. Shalin

Inner Speech is an essential but also elusive human psychological process which refers to an everyday covert internal conversation with oneself. We argue that programming a robot with an overt self-talk system, which simulates human inner…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Arianna Pipitone , Alessandro Geraci , Antonella D'Amico , Valeria Seidita , Antonio Chella

The use of natural language interfaces in the field of human-computer interaction is undergoing intense study through dedicated scientific and industrial research. The latest contributions in the field, including deep learning approaches…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Quim Motger , Xavier Franch , Jordi Marco

Recent studies have discussed how users are increasingly using conversational AI systems, powered by LLMs, for information seeking, decision support, and even emotional support. However, these macro-level observations offer limited insight…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Sai Keerthana Karnam , Abhisek Dash , Krishna P. Gummadi , Animesh Mukherjee , Ingmar Weber , Savvas Zannettou

Understanding the needs of a variety of distinct user groups is vital in designing effective, desirable dialogue systems that will be adopted by the largest possible segment of the population. Despite the increasing popularity of dialogue…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-02-13 Libby Ferland , Thomas Huffstutler , Jacob Rice , Joan Zheng , Shi Ni , Maria Gini

While valuable datasets such as PersonaChat provide a foundation for training persona-grounded dialogue agents, they lack diversity in conversational and narrative settings, primarily existing in the "real" world. To develop dialogue agents…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-15 Alexandra DeLucia , Mengjie Zhao , Yoshinori Maeda , Makoto Yoda , Keiichi Yamada , Hiromi Wakaki