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The majority of conversations a dialogue agent sees over its lifetime occur after it has already been trained and deployed, leaving a vast store of potential training signal untapped. In this work, we propose the self-feeding chatbot, a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-14 Braden Hancock , Antoine Bordes , Pierre-Emmanuel Mazaré , Jason Weston

Large-scale pre-training has shown remarkable performance in building open-domain dialogue systems. However, previous works mainly focus on showing and evaluating the conversational performance of the released dialogue model, ignoring the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Yuxian Gu , Jiaxin Wen , Hao Sun , Yi Song , Pei Ke , Chujie Zheng , Zheng Zhang , Jianzhu Yao , Lei Liu , Xiaoyan Zhu , Minlie Huang

We study open domain dialogue generation with dialogue acts designed to explain how people engage in social chat. To imitate human behavior, we propose managing the flow of human-machine interactions with the dialogue acts as policies. The…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-23 Can Xu , Wei Wu , Yu Wu

Recent advances in conversational AI have been substantial, but developing real-time systems for perceptual task guidance remains challenging. These systems must provide interactive, proactive assistance based on streaming visual inputs,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Yichi Zhang , Xin Luna Dong , Zhaojiang Lin , Andrea Madotto , Anuj Kumar , Babak Damavandi , Joyce Chai , Seungwhan Moon

The prevailing paradigm in the domain of Open-Domain Dialogue agents predominantly focuses on the English language, encompassing both models and datasets. Furthermore, the financial and temporal investments required for crowdsourcing such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Ahmed Njifenjou , Virgile Sucal , Bassam Jabaian , Fabrice Lefèvre

We introduce the StatCan Dialogue Dataset consisting of 19,379 conversation turns between agents working at Statistics Canada and online users looking for published data tables. The conversations stem from genuine intents, are held in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Xing Han Lu , Siva Reddy , Harm de Vries

Although pre-trained language models have remarkably enhanced the generation ability of dialogue systems, open-domain Chinese dialogue systems are still limited by the dialogue data and the model size compared with English ones. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Hao Zhou , Pei Ke , Zheng Zhang , Yuxian Gu , Yinhe Zheng , Chujie Zheng , Yida Wang , Chen Henry Wu , Hao Sun , Xiaocong Yang , Bosi Wen , Xiaoyan Zhu , Minlie Huang , Jie Tang

Responding with multi-modal content has been recognized as an essential capability for an intelligent conversational agent. In this paper, we introduce the MMDialog dataset to better facilitate multi-modal conversation. MMDialog is composed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Jiazhan Feng , Qingfeng Sun , Can Xu , Pu Zhao , Yaming Yang , Chongyang Tao , Dongyan Zhao , Qingwei Lin

In order to better simulate the real human conversation process, models need to generate dialogue utterances based on not only preceding textual contexts but also visual contexts. However, with the development of multi-modal dialogue…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Shuhe Wang , Yuxian Meng , Xiaoya Li , Xiaofei Sun , Rongbin Ouyang , Jiwei Li

Existing goal-oriented dialogue datasets focus mainly on identifying slots and values. However, customer support interactions in reality often involve agents following multi-step procedures derived from explicitly-defined company policies…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Derek Chen , Howard Chen , Yi Yang , Alex Lin , Zhou Yu

The success of large language models has driven interest in developing similar speech processing capabilities. However, a key challenge is the scarcity of high-quality spontaneous speech data, as most existing datasets contain scripted…

In this paper, we propose a Chinese multi-turn topic-driven conversation dataset, NaturalConv, which allows the participants to chat anything they want as long as any element from the topic is mentioned and the topic shift is smooth. Our…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Xiaoyang Wang , Chen Li , Jianqiao Zhao , Dong Yu

Dialogue assessment plays a critical role in the development of open-domain dialogue systems. Existing work are uncapable of providing an end-to-end and human-epistemic assessment dataset, while they only provide sub-metrics like coherence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Yukun Zhao , Lingyong Yan , Weiwei Sun , Chong Meng , Shuaiqiang Wang , Zhicong Cheng , Zhaochun Ren , Dawei Yin

While voice technologies increasingly serve aging populations, current systems exhibit significant performance gaps due to inadequate training data capturing elderly-specific vocal characteristics like presbyphonia and dialectal variations.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Yang Chen , Hui Wang , Shiyao Wang , Junyang Chen , Jiabei He , Jiaming Zhou , Xi Yang , Yequan Wang , Yonghua Lin , Yong Qin

We investigate the task of modeling open-domain, multi-turn, unstructured, multi-participant, conversational dialogue. We specifically study the effect of incorporating different elements of the conversation. Unlike previous efforts, which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-06-02 Rami Al-Rfou , Marc Pickett , Javier Snaider , Yun-hsuan Sung , Brian Strope , Ray Kurzweil

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

Building dialogue systems requires a large corpus of annotated dialogues. Such datasets are usually created via crowdsourcing, which is expensive and time-consuming. In this paper, we propose \textsc{Dialogic}, a novel dialogue simulation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Zekun Li , Wenhu Chen , Shiyang Li , Hong Wang , Jing Qian , Xifeng Yan

In recent research on dialogue systems and corpora, there has been a significant focus on two distinct categories: task-oriented (TOD) and open-domain (chit-chat) dialogues. TOD systems aim to satisfy specific user goals, such as finding a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Wen-Yu Chang , Yun-Nung Chen

Virtual assistants such as Google Assistant, Alexa and Siri provide a conversational interface to a large number of services and APIs spanning multiple domains. Such systems need to support an ever-increasing number of services with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-30 Abhinav Rastogi , Xiaoxue Zang , Srinivas Sunkara , Raghav Gupta , Pranav Khaitan

Dialogue systems have been widely applied in many scenarios and are now more powerful and ubiquitous than ever before. With large neural models and massive available data, current dialogue systems have access to more knowledge than any…