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The LLM-as-a-judge paradigm enables flexible, user-defined evaluation, but its effectiveness is often limited by the scarcity of diverse, representative data for refining criteria. We present a tool that integrates synthetic data generation…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Hyo Jin Do , Zahra Ashktorab , Jasmina Gajcin , Erik Miehling , Martín Santillán Cooper , Qian Pan , Elizabeth M. Daly , Werner Geyer

Open-domain dialog systems (also known as chatbots) have increasingly drawn attention in natural language processing. Some of the recent work aims at incorporating affect information into sequence-to-sequence neural dialog modeling, making…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Yubo Xie , Ekaterina Svikhnushina , Pearl Pu

We study video-grounded dialogue generation, where a response is generated based on the dialogue context and the associated video. The primary challenges of this task lie in (1) the difficulty of integrating video data into pre-trained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Xueliang Zhao , Yuxuan Wang , Chongyang Tao , Chenshuo Wang , Dongyan Zhao

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

We introduce doc2dial, a new dataset of goal-oriented dialogues that are grounded in the associated documents. Inspired by how the authors compose documents for guiding end users, we first construct dialogue flows based on the content…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Song Feng , Hui Wan , Chulaka Gunasekara , Siva Sankalp Patel , Sachindra Joshi , Luis A. Lastras

Recent advances in large-scale pre-training such as GPT-3 allow seemingly high quality text to be generated from a given prompt. However, such generation systems often suffer from problems of hallucinated facts, and are not inherently…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Yizhe Zhang , Siqi Sun , Xiang Gao , Yuwei Fang , Chris Brockett , Michel Galley , Jianfeng Gao , Bill Dolan

Flowchart-grounded troubleshooting dialogue (FTD) systems, which follow the instructions of a flowchart to diagnose users' problems in specific domains (e.g., vehicle, laptop), have been gaining research interest in recent years. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Haolan Zhan , Sameen Maruf , Lizhen Qu , Yufei Wang , Ingrid Zukerman , Gholamreza Haffari

Many conversation datasets have been constructed in the recent years using crowdsourcing. However, the data collection process can be time consuming and presents many challenges to ensure data quality. Since language generation has improved…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Chulaka Gunasekara , Guy Feigenblat , Benjamin Sznajder , Sachindra Joshi , David Konopnicki

Large language models (LLMs) excel at processing and generating both text and code. However, LLMs have had limited applicability in grounded task-oriented dialogue as they are difficult to steer toward task objectives and fail to handle…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Justin T. Chiu , Wenting Zhao , Derek Chen , Saujas Vaduguru , Alexander M. Rush , Daniel Fried

Training models on synthetic data has emerged as an increasingly important strategy for improving the performance of generative AI. This approach is particularly helpful for large multimodal models (LMMs) due to the relative scarcity of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Gabriela Ben Melech Stan , Estelle Aflalo , Avinash Madasu , Vasudev Lal , Phillip Howard

The emergence of synthetic data represents a pivotal shift in modern machine learning, offering a solution to satisfy the need for large volumes of data in domains where real data is scarce, highly private, or difficult to obtain. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Krisztian Balog , John Palowitch , Barbara Ikica , Filip Radlinski , Hamidreza Alvari , Mehdi Manshadi

Document Grounded Conversations is a task to generate dialogue responses when chatting about the content of a given document. Obviously, document knowledge plays a critical role in Document Grounded Conversations, while existing dialogue…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-02 Zekang Li , Cheng Niu , Fandong Meng , Yang Feng , Qian Li , Jie Zhou

In this paper, a novel Generation-Evaluation framework is developed for multi-turn conversations with the objective of letting both participants know more about each other. For the sake of rational knowledge utilization and coherent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Siqi Bao , Huang He , Fan Wang , Rongzhong Lian , Hua Wu

Effective conversation requires common ground: a shared understanding between the participants. Common ground, however, does not emerge spontaneously in conversation. Speakers and listeners work together to both identify and construct a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Omar Shaikh , Kristina Gligorić , Ashna Khetan , Matthias Gerstgrasser , Diyi Yang , Dan Jurafsky

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

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

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

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

As interactive LLM-based applications are created and refined, model developers need to evaluate the quality of generated text along many possible axes. For simpler systems, human evaluation may be practical, but in complicated systems like…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Zhenwei Tang , Zhaoyan Liu , Rasa Hosseinzadeh , Tongzi Wu , Keyvan Golestan , Jesse C. Cresswell

A video-grounded dialogue system is required to understand both dialogue, which contains semantic dependencies from turn to turn, and video, which contains visual cues of spatial and temporal scene variations. Building such dialogue systems…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Hung Le , Chinnadhurai Sankar , Seungwhan Moon , Ahmad Beirami , Alborz Geramifard , Satwik Kottur