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A pressing challenge in current dialogue systems is to successfully converse with users on topics with information distributed across different modalities. Previous work in multiturn dialogue systems has primarily focused on either text or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Kai Nakamura , Sharon Levy , Yi-Lin Tuan , Wenhu Chen , William Yang Wang

Most existing multimodal machine translation (MMT) datasets are predominantly composed of static images or short video clips, lacking extensive video data across diverse domains and topics. As a result, they fail to meet the demands of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Jinze Lv , Jian Chen , Zi Long , Xianghua Fu , Yin Chen

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

In the research of end-to-end dialogue systems, using real-world knowledge to generate natural, fluent, and human-like utterances with correct answers is crucial. However, domain-specific conversational dialogue systems may be incoherent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Cheng Deng , Bo Tong , Luoyi Fu , Jiaxin Ding , Dexing Cao , Xinbing Wang , Chenghu Zhou

Research on (multi-domain) task-oriented dialog (TOD) has predominantly focused on the English language, primarily due to the shortage of robust TOD datasets in other languages, preventing the systematic investigation of cross-lingual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Chia-Chien Hung , Anne Lauscher , Ivan Vulić , Simone Paolo Ponzetto , Goran Glavaš

With the availability of massive general-domain dialogue data, pre-trained dialogue generation appears to be super appealing to transfer knowledge from the general domain to downstream applications. In most existing work, such transferable…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Xueliang Zhao , Lemao Liu , Tingchen Fu , Shuming Shi , Dongyan Zhao , Rui Yan

Dialogue systems (DS), including the task-oriented dialogue system (TOD) and the open-domain dialogue system (ODD), have always been a fundamental task in natural language processing (NLP), allowing various applications in practice. Owing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Hongru Wang , Lingzhi Wang , Yiming Du , Liang Chen , Jingyan Zhou , Yufei Wang , Kam-Fai Wong

Instruction tuning as an effective technique aligns the outputs of large language models (LLMs) with human preference. But how to generate the seasonal multi-turn dialogues from raw documents for instruction tuning still requires further…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Xia Hou , Qifeng Li , Jian Yang , Tongliang Li , Linzheng Chai , Xianjie Wu , Hangyuan Ji , Zhoujun Li , Jixuan Nie , Jingbo Dun , Wenfeng Song

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

This paper presents Text2Structure3D, a graph-based Machine Learning (ML) model that generates equilibrium structures from natural language prompts. Text2Structure3D is designed to support new intuitive ways of design exploration and…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Lazlo Bleker , Zifeng Guo , Kaleb Smith , Kam-Ming Mark Tam , Karla Saldaña Ochoa , Pierluigi D'Acunto

Recent approaches have attempted to personalize dialogue systems by leveraging profile information into models. However, this knowledge is scarce and difficult to obtain, which makes the extraction/generation of profile information from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Rui Ribeiro , Joao P. Carvalho , Luísa Coheur

Multilingual task-oriented dialogue (ToD) facilitates access to services and information for many (communities of) speakers. Nevertheless, the potential of this technology is not fully realised, as current datasets for multilingual ToD -…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Olga Majewska , Evgeniia Razumovskaia , Edoardo Maria Ponti , Ivan Vulić , Anna Korhonen

Text-to-image (T2I) generation models have significantly advanced in recent years. However, effective interaction with these models is challenging for average users due to the need for specialized prompt engineering knowledge and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Minbin Huang , Yanxin Long , Xinchi Deng , Ruihang Chu , Jiangfeng Xiong , Xiaodan Liang , Hong Cheng , Qinglin Lu , Wei Liu

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

Knowledge graph-based dialogue systems are capable of generating more informative responses and can implement sophisticated reasoning mechanisms. However, these models do not take into account the sparseness and incompleteness of knowledge…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Hongcai Xu , Junpeng Bao , Gaojie Zhang

Text-to-image generation tasks have driven remarkable advances in diverse media applications, yet most focus on single-turn scenarios and struggle with iterative, multi-turn creative tasks. Recent dialogue-based systems attempt to bridge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Shichao Ma , Yunhe Guo , Jiahao Su , Qihe Huang , Zhengyang Zhou , Yang Wang

This paper investigates cross-lingual temporal knowledge graph reasoning problem, which aims to facilitate reasoning on Temporal Knowledge Graphs (TKGs) in low-resource languages by transfering knowledge from TKGs in high-resource ones. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Ruijie Wang , Zheng Li , Jingfeng Yang , Tianyu Cao , Chao Zhang , Bing Yin , Tarek Abdelzaher

The research of knowledge-driven conversational systems is largely limited due to the lack of dialog data which consist of multi-turn conversations on multiple topics and with knowledge annotations. In this paper, we propose a Chinese…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-09 Hao Zhou , Chujie Zheng , Kaili Huang , Minlie Huang , Xiaoyan Zhu

The world is facing a multitude of challenges that hinder the development of human civilization and the well-being of humanity on the planet. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were formulated by the United Nations in 2015 to address…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Francesco Invernici , Francesca Curati , Jelena Jakimov , Amirhossein Samavi , Anna Bernasconi

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly employed in multi-turn conversational tasks, yet their pre-training data predominantly consists of continuous prose, creating a potential mismatch between required capabilities and training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Jing Yang Lee , Hamed Bonab , Nasser Zalmout , Ming Zeng , Sanket Lokegaonkar , Colin Lockard , Binxuan Huang , Ritesh Sarkhel , Haodong Wang