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Recently, several multi-turn dialogue benchmarks have been proposed to evaluate the conversational abilities of large language models (LLMs). As LLMs are increasingly recognized as a key technology for advancing intelligent education, owing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Shouang Wei , Min Zhang , Xin Lin , Bo Jiang , Zhongxiang Dai , Kun Kuang

In this paper, we provide a bilingual parallel human-to-human recommendation dialog dataset (DuRecDial 2.0) to enable researchers to explore a challenging task of multilingual and cross-lingual conversational recommendation. The difference…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Zeming Liu , Haifeng Wang , Zheng-Yu Niu , Hua Wu , Wanxiang Che

Multimodal Dialogue Summarization (MDS) is a critical task with wide-ranging applications. To support the development of effective MDS models, robust automatic evaluation methods are essential for reducing both cost and human effort.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Yinhong Liu , Jianfeng He , Hang Su , Ruixue Lian , Yi Nian , Jake Vincent , Srikanth Vishnubhotla , Robinson Piramuthu , Saab Mansour

Automatic evaluation is beneficial for open-domain dialog system development. However, standard word-overlap metrics (BLEU, ROUGE) do not correlate well with human judgements of open-domain dialog systems. In this work we propose to use the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Sarik Ghazarian , Behnam Hedayatnia , Alexandros Papangelis , Yang Liu , Dilek Hakkani-Tur

Evaluation of open-domain dialogue systems is highly challenging and development of better techniques is highlighted time and again as desperately needed. Despite substantial efforts to carry out reliable live evaluation of systems in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Tianbo Ji , Yvette Graham , Gareth J. F. Jones , Chenyang Lyu , Qun Liu

Task-oriented dialogue (ToD) benchmarks provide an important avenue to measure progress and develop better conversational agents. However, existing datasets for end-to-end ToD modeling are limited to a single language, hindering the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Zhaojiang Lin , Andrea Madotto , Genta Indra Winata , Peng Xu , Feijun Jiang , Yuxiang Hu , Chen Shi , Pascale Fung

One challenge for dialogue agents is recognizing feelings in the conversation partner and replying accordingly, a key communicative skill. While it is straightforward for humans to recognize and acknowledge others' feelings in a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-30 Hannah Rashkin , Eric Michael Smith , Margaret Li , Y-Lan Boureau

Creating spoken dialogue datasets is methodologically challenging, and these challenges are amplified when the goal is to build multilingual, multi-parallel datasets at scale. This work introduces HEALTHDIAL, a large-scale, multilingual,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Songbo Hu , Yinhong Liu , Ej Zhou , Evgeniia Razumovskaia , Xiaobin Wang , Alexander Fraser , Ivan Vulić , Anna Korhonen

Conversational artificial intelligence has the potential to assist users in preliminary medical consultations, particularly in settings where access to healthcare professionals is limited. However, many existing medical dialogue systems…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Shubham Kumar Nigam , Suparnojit Sarkar , Piyush Patel

Natural Language Generation (NLG) typically involves evaluating the generated text in various aspects (e.g., consistency and naturalness) to obtain a comprehensive assessment. However, multi-aspect evaluation remains challenging as it may…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Minqian Liu , Ying Shen , Zhiyang Xu , Yixin Cao , Eunah Cho , Vaibhav Kumar , Reza Ghanadan , Lifu Huang

Despite significant research effort in the development of automatic dialogue evaluation metrics, little thought is given to evaluating dialogues other than in English. At the same time, ensuring metrics are invariant to semantically similar…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-11 John Mendonça , Patrícia Pereira , Helena Moniz , João Paulo Carvalho , Alon Lavie , Isabel Trancoso

There is an increasing focus on model-based dialog evaluation metrics such as ADEM, RUBER, and the more recent BERT-based metrics. These models aim to assign a high score to all relevant responses and a low score to all irrelevant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-25 Ananya B. Sai , Akash Kumar Mohankumar , Siddhartha Arora , Mitesh M. Khapra

Existing datasets for audio understanding primarily focus on single-turn interactions (i.e. audio captioning, audio question answering) for describing audio in natural language, thus limiting understanding audio via interactive dialogue. To…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Arushi Goel , Zhifeng Kong , Rafael Valle , Bryan Catanzaro

Despite recent progress in open-domain dialogue evaluation, how to develop automatic metrics remains an open problem. We explore the potential of dialogue evaluation featuring dialog act information, which was hardly explicitly modeled in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Jianqiao Zhao , Yanyang Li , Wanyu Du , Yangfeng Ji , Dong Yu , Michael R. Lyu , Liwei Wang

As Large Language Models (LLMs) are now capable of producing fluent and coherent content in languages other than English, it is not imperative to precisely evaluate these non-English outputs. However, when assessing the outputs from…

Large pre-trained language models have exhibited unprecedented capabilities in producing high-quality text via prompting techniques. This fact introduces new possibilities for data collection and annotation, particularly in situations where…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Tiziano Labruna , Sofia Brenna , Andrea Zaninello , Bernardo Magnini

The rapid evolution of end-to-end spoken dialogue systems demands transcending mere textual semantics to incorporate paralinguistic nuances and the spontaneous nature of human conversation. However, current methods struggle with two…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-12 Jingyu Lu , Yuhan Wang , Fan Zhuo , Xize Cheng , Changhao Pan , Xueyi Pu , Yifu Chen , Chenyuhao Wen , Tianle Liang , Zhou Zhao

Text-to-Table aims to generate structured tables to convey the key information from unstructured documents. Existing text-to-table datasets are typically oriented English, limiting the research in non-English languages. Meanwhile, the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Haoxiang Shi , Jiaan Wang , Jiarong Xu , Cen Wang , Tetsuya Sakai

In this paper, we proposed a transfer learning-based English language learning chatbot, whose output generated by GPT-2 can be explained by corresponding ontology graph rooted by fine-tuning dataset. We design three levels for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Nuobei Shi , Qin Zeng , Raymond Lee

We develop a high-quality multi-turn dialog dataset, DailyDialog, which is intriguing in several aspects. The language is human-written and less noisy. The dialogues in the dataset reflect our daily communication way and cover various…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-12 Yanran Li , Hui Su , Xiaoyu Shen , Wenjie Li , Ziqiang Cao , Shuzi Niu