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Goal-oriented dialogue systems are now being widely adopted in industry where it is of key importance to maintain a rapid prototyping cycle for new products and domains. Data-driven dialogue system development has to be adapted to meet this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-04 Igor Shalyminov , Sungjin Lee , Arash Eshghi , Oliver Lemon

Dialogue system (DS) attracts great attention from industry and academia because of its wide application prospects. Researchers usually divide the DS according to the function. However, many conversations require the DS to switch between…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Longxuan Ma , Wei-Nan Zhang , Mingda Li , Ting Liu

This paper aims to quantitatively evaluate the performance of ChatGPT, an interactive large language model, on inter-sentential relations such as temporal relations, causal relations, and discourse relations. Given ChatGPT's promising…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Chunkit Chan , Jiayang Cheng , Weiqi Wang , Yuxin Jiang , Tianqing Fang , Xin Liu , Yangqiu Song

Fact-based dialogue generation is a task of generating a human-like response based on both dialogue context and factual texts. Various methods were proposed to focus on generating informative words that contain facts effectively. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Ryota Tanaka , Akinobu Lee

Text response generation for multimodal task-oriented dialog systems, which aims to generate the proper text response given the multimodal context, is an essential yet challenging task. Although existing efforts have achieved compelling…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Xiaolin Chen , Xuemeng Song , Liqiang Jing , Shuo Li , Linmei Hu , Liqiang Nie

Prior approaches to realizing mixed-initiative human--computer referential communication have adopted information-state or collaborative problem-solving approaches. In this paper, we argue for a new approach, inspired by coherence-based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-10 Baber Khalid , Malihe Alikhani , Michael Fellner , Brian McMahan , Matthew Stone

In the realm of video dialog response generation, the understanding of video content and the temporal nuances of conversation history are paramount. While a segment of current research leans heavily on large-scale pretrained visual-language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-15 You Qin , Wei Ji , Xinze Lan , Hao Fei , Xun Yang , Dan Guo , Roger Zimmermann , Lizi Liao

Incorporating external knowledge into the response generation process is essential to building more helpful and reliable dialog agents. However, collecting knowledge-grounded conversations is often costly, calling for a better pre-trained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Qi Zhu , Fei Mi , Zheng Zhang , Yasheng Wang , Yitong Li , Xin Jiang , Qun Liu , Xiaoyan Zhu , Minlie Huang

Dialog response generation in open domain is an important research topic where the main challenge is to generate relevant and diverse responses. In this paper, we propose a new dialog pre-training framework called DialogVED, which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Wei Chen , Yeyun Gong , Song Wang , Bolun Yao , Weizhen Qi , Zhongyu Wei , Xiaowu Hu , Bartuer Zhou , Yi Mao , Weizhu Chen , Biao Cheng , Nan Duan

The study of causal relationships between emotions and causes in texts has recently received much attention. Most works focus on extracting causally related clauses from documents. However, none of these works has considered that the causal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Xinhong Chen , Zongxi Li , Yaowei Wang , Haoran Xie , Jianping Wang , Qing Li

In this work, we present a model for document-grounded response generation in dialog that is decomposed into two components according to Bayes theorem. One component is a traditional ungrounded response generation model and the other…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Nico Daheim , David Thulke , Christian Dugast , Hermann Ney

Pre-trained language models have shown remarkable success in improving various downstream NLP tasks due to their ability to capture dependencies in textual data and generate natural responses. In this paper, we leverage the power of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Hung Le , Steven C. H. Hoi

Many conversation datasets have been constructed in the recent years using crowdsourcing. However, the data collection process can be time consuming and presents many challenges to ensure data quality. Since language generation has improved…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Chulaka Gunasekara , Guy Feigenblat , Benjamin Sznajder , Sachindra Joshi , David Konopnicki

We present an empirical investigation of pre-trained Transformer-based auto-regressive language models for the task of open-domain dialogue generation. Training paradigm of pre-training and fine-tuning is employed to conduct the parameter…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Piji Li

Previous research on multi-party dialogue generation has predominantly leveraged structural information inherent in dialogues to directly inform the generation process. However, the prevalence of colloquial expressions and incomplete…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Zhiyu Cao , Peifeng Li , Qiaoming Zhu

Recent advancements in conversational systems have significantly enhanced human-machine interactions across various domains. However, training these systems is challenging due to the scarcity of specialized dialogue data. Traditionally,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Heydar Soudani , Roxana Petcu , Evangelos Kanoulas , Faegheh Hasibi

True intelligence hinges on the ability to uncover and leverage hidden causal relations. Despite significant progress in AI and computer vision (CV), there remains a lack of benchmarks for assessing models' abilities to infer latent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Disheng Liu , Yiran Qiao , Wuche Liu , Yiren Lu , Yunlai Zhou , Tuo Liang , Yu Yin , Jing Ma

The integration of multi-document pre-training objectives into language models has resulted in remarkable improvements in multi-document downstream tasks. In this work, we propose extending this idea by pre-training a generic multi-document…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Avi Caciularu , Matthew E. Peters , Jacob Goldberger , Ido Dagan , Arman Cohan

Endowing dialogue systems with personas is essential to deliver more human-like conversations. However, this problem is still far from well explored due to the difficulties of both embodying personalities in natural languages and the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-13 Yinhe Zheng , Rongsheng Zhang , Xiaoxi Mao , Minlie Huang

Video-grounded dialogue systems aim to integrate video understanding and dialogue understanding to generate responses that are relevant to both the dialogue and video context. Most existing approaches employ deep learning models and have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Hung Le , Nancy F. Chen , Steven C. H. Hoi