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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

In this paper, we address the problem of answering complex information needs by conversing conversations with search engines, in the sense that users can express their queries in natural language, and directly receivethe information they…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-19 Pengjie Ren , Zhumin Chen , Zhaochun Ren , Evangelos Kanoulas , Christof Monz , Maarten de Rijke

We propose a unified Implicit Dialog framework for goal-oriented, information seeking tasks of Conversational Search applications. It aims to enable dialog interactions with domain data without replying on explicitly encoded the rules but…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Song Feng , R. Chulaka Gunasekara , Sunil Shashidhara , Kshitij P. Fadnis , Lazaros C. Polymenakos

In open-domain dialogue intelligent agents should exhibit the use of knowledge, however there are few convincing demonstrations of this to date. The most popular sequence to sequence models typically "generate and hope" generic utterances…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-25 Emily Dinan , Stephen Roller , Kurt Shuster , Angela Fan , Michael Auli , Jason Weston

Open-domain multi-turn conversations normally face the challenges of how to enrich and expand the content of the conversation. Recently, many approaches based on external knowledge are proposed to generate rich semantic and information…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Feifei Xu , Shanlin Zhou , Xinpeng Wang , Yunpu Ma , Wenkai Zhang , Zhisong Li

Commonsense generation is a challenging task of generating a plausible sentence describing an everyday scenario using provided concepts. Its requirement of reasoning over commonsense knowledge and compositional generalization ability even…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Han Wang , Yang Liu , Chenguang Zhu , Linjun Shou , Ming Gong , Yichong Xu , Michael Zeng

Building dialog agents that can converse naturally with humans is a challenging yet intriguing problem of artificial intelligence. In open-domain human-computer conversation, where the conversational agent is expected to respond to human…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Tom Young , Erik Cambria , Iti Chaturvedi , Minlie Huang , Hao Zhou , Subham Biswas

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

Commonsense question answering (QA) requires background knowledge which is not explicitly stated in a given context. Prior works use commonsense knowledge graphs (KGs) to obtain this knowledge for reasoning. However, relying entirely on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Peifeng Wang , Nanyun Peng , Filip Ilievski , Pedro Szekely , Xiang Ren

Humans use commonsense reasoning (CSR) implicitly to produce natural and coherent responses in conversations. Aiming to close the gap between current response generation (RG) models and human communication abilities, we want to understand…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Pei Zhou , Pegah Jandaghi , Bill Yuchen Lin , Justin Cho , Jay Pujara , Xiang Ren

Neural conversation models tend to generate safe, generic responses for most inputs. This is due to the limitations of likelihood-based decoding objectives in generation tasks with diverse outputs, such as conversation. To address this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-06 Ashutosh Baheti , Alan Ritter , Jiwei Li , Bill Dolan

Open-domain dialogue systems aim to generate relevant, informative and engaging responses. Seq2seq neural response generation approaches do not have explicit mechanisms to control the content or style of the generated response, and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Behnam Hedayatnia , Karthik Gopalakrishnan , Seokhwan Kim , Yang Liu , Mihail Eric , Dilek Hakkani-Tur

Conversational search provides a more convenient interface for users to search by allowing multi-turn interaction with the search engine. However, the effectiveness of the conversational dense retrieval methods is limited by the scarcity of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Fengran Mo , Bole Yi , Kelong Mao , Chen Qu , Kaiyu Huang , Jian-Yun Nie

Open-domain conversational search (ODCS) aims to provide valuable, up-to-date information, while maintaining natural conversations to help users refine and ultimately answer information needs. However, creating an effective and robust ODCS…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Zihao Wang , Ali Ahmadvand , Jason Choi , Payam Karisani , Eugene Agichtein

Conversational recommender systems have attracted immense attention recently. The most recent approaches rely on neural models trained on recorded dialogs between humans, implementing an end-to-end learning process. These systems are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Ahtsham Manzoor , Dietmar Jannach

Implicit knowledge, such as common sense, is key to fluid human conversations. Current neural response generation (RG) models are trained to generate responses directly, omitting unstated implicit knowledge. In this paper, we present…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Pei Zhou , Karthik Gopalakrishnan , Behnam Hedayatnia , Seokhwan Kim , Jay Pujara , Xiang Ren , Yang Liu , Dilek Hakkani-Tur

There is a resurgent interest in developing intelligent open-domain dialog systems due to the availability of large amounts of conversational data and the recent progress on neural approaches to conversational AI. Unlike traditional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-02 Minlie Huang , Xiaoyan Zhu , Jianfeng Gao

Conversational search systems enable information retrieval via natural language interactions, with the goal of maximizing users' information gain over multiple dialogue turns. The increasing prevalence of conversational interfaces adopting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Phillip Schneider , Wessel Poelman , Michael Rovatsos , Florian Matthes

Open-domain question answering (QA) tasks usually require the retrieval of relevant information from a large corpus to generate accurate answers. We propose a novel approach called Generator-Retriever-Generator (GRG) that combines document…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Abdelrahman Abdallah , Adam Jatowt

Conversational question answering systems often rely on semantic parsing to enable interactive information retrieval, which involves the generation of structured database queries from a natural language input. For information-seeking…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Phillip Schneider , Manuel Klettner , Kristiina Jokinen , Elena Simperl , Florian Matthes