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Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to support creative tasks such as research idea generation. While recent work has shown that structured dialogues between LLMs can improve the novelty and feasibility of generated ideas,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Keisuke Ueda , Wataru Hirota , Takuto Asakura , Takahiro Omi , Kosuke Takahashi , Kosuke Arima , Tatsuya Ishigaki

We present SDialog, an MIT-licensed open-source Python toolkit that unifies dialog generation, evaluation and mechanistic interpretability into a single end-to-end framework for building and analyzing LLM-based conversational agents. Built…

Synthetic users are cost-effective proxies for real users in the evaluation of conversational recommender systems. Large language models show promise in simulating human-like behavior, raising the question of their ability to represent a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Se-eun Yoon , Zhankui He , Jessica Maria Echterhoff , Julian McAuley

We present SDialog, an MIT-licensed open-source Python toolkit that unifies dialog generation, evaluation and mechanistic interpretability into a single end-to-end framework for building and analyzing LLM-based conversational agents. Built…

Synthetic data sets are used across linguistic domains and NLP tasks, particularly in scenarios where authentic data is limited (or even non-existent). One such domain is that of clinical (healthcare) contexts, where there exist significant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Steven Bedrick , A. Seza Doğruöz , Sergiu Nisioi

Dialogue systems controlled by predefined or rule-based scenarios derived from counseling techniques, such as cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), play an important role in mental health apps. Despite the need for responsible responses, it…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Kenta Izumi , Hiroki Tanaka , Kazuhiro Shidara , Hiroyoshi Adachi , Daisuke Kanayama , Takashi Kudo , Satoshi Nakamura

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

We present a novel approach to generating scripts by using agents with different personality types. To manage character interaction in the script, we employ simulated dramatic networks. Automatic and human evaluation on multiple criteria…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Patrícia Schmidtová , Dávid Javorský , Christián Mikláš , Tomáš Musil , Rudolf Rosa , Ondřej Dušek

One of the major impediments to the development of new task-oriented dialogue (TOD) systems is the need for human evaluation at multiple stages and iterations of the development process. In an effort to move toward automated evaluation of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Sam Davidson , Salvatore Romeo , Raphael Shu , James Gung , Arshit Gupta , Saab Mansour , Yi Zhang

Longitudinal Dialogues (LD) are the most challenging type of conversation for human-machine dialogue systems. LDs include the recollections of events, personal thoughts, and emotions specific to each individual in a sparse sequence of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Seyed Mahed Mousavi , Simone Caldarella , Giuseppe Riccardi

Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have significantly enhanced conversational agents, making them applicable to various fields (e.g., education, entertainment). Despite their progress, the evaluation of the agents often…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Jiho Kim , Woosog Chay , Hyeonji Hwang , Daeun Kyung , Hyunseung Chung , Eunbyeol Cho , Yeonsu Kwon , Yohan Jo , Edward Choi

The ability of large language models (LLMs) to process and reason over long textual inputs is critical for a wide range of real-world applications. However, progress in this area is significantly constrained by the absence of high-quality,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Seganrasan Subramanian , Abhigya Verma

Building a dialogue system that can communicate naturally with humans is a challenging yet interesting problem of agent-based computing. The rapid growth in this area is usually hindered by the long-standing problem of data scarcity as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Munazza Zaib , Quan Z. Sheng , Wei Emma Zhang

Providing dialogue agents with a profile representation can improve their consistency and coherence, leading to better conversations. However, current profile-based dialogue datasets for training such agents contain either explicit profile…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Daniela Occhipinti , Serra Sinem Tekiroglu , Marco Guerini

The recent success of large language models (LLMs) has attracted widespread interest to develop role-playing conversational agents personalized to the characteristics and styles of different speakers to enhance their abilities to perform…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Yizhe Yang , Palakorn Achananuparp , Heyan Huang , Jing Jiang , Ee-Peng Lim

An effective healthcare agent must be able to recall and reason over a patient's longitudinal medical history. However, the absence of datasets with realistic long-term dialogue timelines limits systematic evaluation. Real clinical text is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Hebin Hu , Renke Dai , Ah-Hwee Tan , Yilin Kang

This paper presents a system for procedurally generating agent-based narratives using large language models (LLMs). Users could drag and drop multiple agents and objects into a scene, with each entity automatically assigned semantic…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Vinayak Regmi , Christos Mousas

The scarcity of domain-specific dialogue datasets limits the development of dialogue systems across applications. Existing research is constrained by general or niche datasets that lack sufficient scale for training dialogue systems. To…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Sathya Krishnan Suresh , Wu Mengjun , Tushar Pranav , Eng Siong Chng

In modern dialogue systems, the ability to implicitly infer user backgrounds from conversations and leverage this information for personalized assistance is crucial. However, the scarcity of high-quality data remains a fundamental challenge…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Bo Peng , Zhiheng Wang , Heyang Gong , Chaochao Lu

Real dialogues with AI assistants for solving data-centric tasks often follow dynamic, unpredictable paths due to imperfect information provided by the user or in the data, which must be caught and handled. Developing datasets which capture…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Christian Poelitz , Nick McKenna