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Introducing curiosities in a conversation is a way to teach something new to the person in a pleasant and enjoyable way. Enriching dialogues with contextualized curiosities can improve the users' perception of a dialog system and their…

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

With the exponential growth of research facilitated by modern technology and improved accessibility, scientific discoveries have become increasingly fragmented within and across fields. This makes it challenging to assess the significance,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Priyanka Kargupta , Ishika Agarwal , Tal August , Jiawei Han

Despite tremendous advancements in dialogue systems, stable evaluation still requires human judgments producing notoriously high-variance metrics due to their inherent subjectivity. Moreover, methods and labels in dialogue evaluation are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Sarah E. Finch , James D. Finch , Jinho D. Choi

Task-oriented dialogue (TOD) systems are experiencing a revolution driven by Large Language Models (LLMs), yet the evaluation methodologies for these systems remain insufficient for their growing sophistication. While traditional automatic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Emre Can Acikgoz , Carl Guo , Suvodip Dey , Akul Datta , Takyoung Kim , Gokhan Tur , Dilek Hakkani-Tür

Large Language Models (LLMs), which simulate human users, are frequently employed to evaluate chatbots in applications such as tutoring and customer service. Effective evaluation necessitates a high degree of human-like diversity within…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Xiaoyu Lin , Xinkai Yu , Ankit Aich , Salvatore Giorgi , Lyle Ungar

Building robust and general dialogue models for spoken conversations is challenging due to the gap in distributions of spoken and written data. This paper presents our approach to build generalized models for the Knowledge-grounded…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Ruijie Yan , Shuang Peng , Haitao Mi , Liang Jiang , Shihui Yang , Yuchi Zhang , Jiajun Li , Liangrui Peng , Yongliang Wang , Zujie Wen

Task interference, the performance degradation caused by task switches within a single conversation, has been studied exclusively in text-only settings despite the growing prevalence of multimodal dialogue systems. We introduce a benchmark…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Masayuki Kawarada , Tatsuya Ishigaki , Hiroya Takamura

Conversations have an intrinsic one-to-many property, which means that multiple responses can be appropriate for the same dialog context. In task-oriented dialogs, this property leads to different valid dialog policies towards task…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Yichi Zhang , Zhijian Ou , Zhou Yu

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in mathematical problem solving, particularly in single turn question answering formats. However, real world scenarios often involve mathematical question answering that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Zhenwen Liang , Dian Yu , Wenhao Yu , Wenlin Yao , Zhihan Zhang , Xiangliang Zhang , Dong Yu

The recent development of language models has shown promising results by achieving state-of-the-art performance on various natural language tasks by fine-tuning pretrained models. In task-oriented dialogue (ToD) systems, language models can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-24 Vinsen Marselino Andreas , Genta Indra Winata , Ayu Purwarianti

While Large Language Models (LLMs) have made significant strides in replicating human-like abilities, there are concerns about a reduction in the linguistic diversity of their outputs. This results in the homogenization of viewpoints and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Long Mai , Julie Carson-Berndsen

Task-oriented dialogue (TOD) systems aim to achieve specific goals through interactive dialogue. Such tasks usually involve following specific workflows, i.e. executing a sequence of actions in a particular order. While prior work has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Do June Min , Paloma Sodhi , Ramya Ramakrishnan

Driven by ongoing improvements in machine learning, chatbots have increasingly grown from experimental interface prototypes to reliable and robust tools for process automation. Building on these advances, companies have identified various…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Alessandro Casadei , Stephan Schlögl , Markus Bergmann

We propose a new task of conversational recommendation over multi-type dialogs, where the bots can proactively and naturally lead a conversation from a non-recommendation dialog (e.g., QA) to a recommendation dialog, taking into account…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-25 Zeming Liu , Haifeng Wang , Zheng-Yu Niu , Hua Wu , Wanxiang Che , Ting Liu

A long-standing goal of task-oriented dialogue research is the ability to flexibly adapt dialogue models to new domains. To progress research in this direction, we introduce DialoGLUE (Dialogue Language Understanding Evaluation), a public…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-02 Shikib Mehri , Mihail Eric , Dilek Hakkani-Tur

In current text-based task-oriented dialogue (TOD) systems, user emotion detection (ED) is often overlooked or is typically treated as a separate and independent task, requiring additional training. In contrast, our work demonstrates that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Armand Stricker , Patrick Paroubek

Target-Oriented Dialogue (TOD) remains a significant challenge in the LLM era, where strategic dialogue planning is crucial for directing conversations toward specific targets. However, existing dialogue planning methods generate dialogue…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Hanwen Du , Bo Peng , Xia Ning

Chatbots can serve as a viable tool for preliminary depression diagnosis via interactive conversations with potential patients. Nevertheless, the blend of task-oriented and chit-chat in diagnosis-related dialogues necessitates professional…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Kunyao Lan , Cong Ming , Binwei Yao , Lu Chen , Mengyue Wu

Semantic parsing using hierarchical representations has recently been proposed for task oriented dialog with promising results [Gupta et al 2018]. In this paper, we present three different improvements to the model: contextualized…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Arash Einolghozati , Panupong Pasupat , Sonal Gupta , Rushin Shah , Mrinal Mohit , Mike Lewis , Luke Zettlemoyer

Chatbots are designed to carry out human-like conversations across different domains, such as general chit-chat, knowledge exchange, and persona-grounded conversations. To measure the quality of such conversational agents, a dialogue…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Chen Zhang , Luis Fernando D'Haro , Thomas Friedrichs , Haizhou Li