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Digital assistants are experiencing rapid growth due to their ability to assist users with day-to-day tasks where most dialogues are happening multi-turn. However, evaluating multi-turn dialogues remains challenging, especially at scale. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Ziming Li , Dookun Park , Julia Kiseleva , Young-Bum Kim , Sungjin Lee

Evaluating text-to-vision content hinges on two crucial aspects: visual quality and alignment. While significant progress has been made in developing objective models to assess these dimensions, the performance of such models heavily relies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Zicheng Zhang , Tengchuan Kou , Shushi Wang , Chunyi Li , Wei Sun , Wei Wang , Xiaoyu Li , Zongyu Wang , Xuezhi Cao , Xiongkuo Min , Xiaohong Liu , Guangtao Zhai

Evaluating open-domain dialogue systems is difficult due to the diversity of possible correct answers. Automatic metrics such as BLEU correlate weakly with human annotations, resulting in a significant bias across different models and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Nouha Dziri , Ehsan Kamalloo , Kory W. Mathewson , Osmar Zaiane

Although human evaluation remains the gold standard for open-domain dialogue evaluation, the growing popularity of automated evaluation using Large Language Models (LLMs) has also extended to dialogue. However, most frameworks leverage…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-07 John Mendonça , Isabel Trancoso , Alon Lavie

Response generation for task-oriented dialogues involves two basic components: dialogue planning and surface realization. These two components, however, have a discrepancy in their objectives, i.e., task completion and language quality. To…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Xinting Huang , Jianzhong Qi , Yu Sun , Rui Zhang

Recent advances in large-scale language modeling and generation have enabled the creation of dialogue agents that exhibit human-like responses in a wide range of conversational scenarios spanning a diverse set of tasks, from general…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Abraham Sanders , Tomek Strzalkowski , Mei Si , Albert Chang , Deepanshu Dey , Jonas Braasch , Dakuo Wang

Dialogue summarization aims to distill the core meaning of a conversation into a concise text. This is crucial for reducing the complexity and noise inherent in dialogue-heavy applications. While recent approaches typically train language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Mohamed Imed Eddine Ghebriout , Gaël Guibon , Ivan Lerner , Emmanuel Vincent

I present a tool which tells the quality of document or its usefulness based on annotations. Annotation may include comments, notes, observation, highlights, underline, explanation, question or help etc. comments are used for evaluative…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2011-11-08 Archana Shukla

An important unexplored aspect in previous work on user satisfaction estimation for Task-Oriented Dialogue (TOD) systems is their evaluation in terms of robustness for the identification of user dissatisfaction: current benchmarks for user…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Amin Abolghasemi , Zhaochun Ren , Arian Askari , Mohammad Aliannejadi , Maarten de Rijke , Suzan Verberne

The rapid advancement of Artificial Intelligence Generated Content (AIGC) technology has propelled audio-driven talking head generation, gaining considerable research attention for practical applications. However, performance evaluation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Weixia Zhang , Chengguang Zhu , Jingnan Gao , Yichao Yan , Guangtao Zhai , Xiaokang Yang

Recently, research on open domain dialogue systems have attracted extensive interests of academic and industrial researchers. The goal of an open domain dialogue system is to imitate humans in conversations. Previous works on single turn…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Wei-Nan Zhang , Yiming Cui , Kaiyan Zhang , Yifa Wang , Qingfu Zhu , Lingzhi Li , Ting Liu

Multi-domain dialogue state tracking (DST) is a critical component for conversational AI systems. The domain ontology (i.e., specification of domains, slots, and values) of a conversational AI system is generally incomplete, making the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Li Zhou , Kevin Small

Knowledge-grounded dialogue systems powered by large language models often generate responses that, while fluent, are not attributable to a relevant source of information. Progress towards models that do not exhibit this issue requires…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Nouha Dziri , Hannah Rashkin , Tal Linzen , David Reitter

Predicting the success of Conversational Task Assistants (CTA) can be critical to understand user behavior and act accordingly. In this paper, we propose TB-Rater, a Transformer model which combines conversational-flow features with user…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Rafael Ferreira , David Semedo , João Magalhães

Speech-driven Talking Human (TH) generation, commonly known as "Talker," currently faces limitations in multi-subject driving capabilities. Extending this paradigm to "Multi-Talker," capable of animating multiple subjects simultaneously,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Yingjie Zhou , Xilei Zhu , Siyu Ren , Ziyi Zhao , Ziwen Wang , Farong Wen , Yu Zhou , Jiezhang Cao , Xiongkuo Min , Fengjiao Chen , Xiaoyu Li , Xuezhi Cao , Guangtao Zhai , Xiaohong Liu

Grounding conversations in existing passages, known as Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), is an important aspect of Chat-Based Assistants powered by Large Language Models (LLMs) to ensure they are faithful and don't provide…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Sara Rosenthal , Maeda Hanafi , Yannis Katsis , Lucian Popa , Marina Danilevsky

Statistical spoken dialogue systems usually rely on a single- or multi-domain dialogue model that is restricted in its capabilities of modelling complex dialogue structures, e.g., relations. In this work, we propose a novel dialogue model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-01-09 Stefan Ultes , Paweł\ Budzianowski , Iñigo Casanueva , Lina Rojas-Barahona , Bo-Hsiang Tseng , Yen-Chen Wu , Steve Young , Milica Gašić

The article proposes a system for knowledge-based conversation designed for Social Robots and other conversational agents. The proposed system relies on an Ontology for the description of all concepts that may be relevant conversation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Lucrezia Grassi , Carmine Tommaso Recchiuto , Antonio Sgorbissa

Deliberation involves participants exchanging knowledge, arguments, and perspectives and has been shown to be effective at addressing polarization. The Stanford Online Deliberation Platform facilitates large-scale deliberations. It enables…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Lodewijk Gelauff , Mohak Goyal , Bhargav Dindukurthi , Ashish Goel , Alice Siu

Response diversity has become an important criterion for evaluating the quality of open-domain dialogue generation models. However, current evaluation metrics for response diversity often fail to capture the semantic diversity of generated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Seungju Han , Beomsu Kim , Buru Chang