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Evaluating the quality of open-domain chatbots has become increasingly reliant on LLMs acting as automatic judges. However, existing meta-evaluation benchmarks are static, outdated, and lacking in multilingual coverage, limiting their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-23 John Mendonça , Alon Lavie , Isabel Trancoso

We introduce a language generation task grounded in a popular video game environment. KNUDGE (KNowledge Constrained User-NPC Dialogue GEneration) requires models to produce trees of dialogue between video game characters that accurately…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Nathaniel Weir , Ryan Thomas , Randolph D'Amore , Kellie Hill , Benjamin Van Durme , Harsh Jhamtani

A core challenge for faithful LLM role-playing is sustaining consistent characterization throughout long, open-ended dialogues, as models frequently fail to recall and accurately apply their designated persona knowledge without explicit…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Kai Wang , Haoyang You , Yang Zhang , Zhongjie Wang

While the recent developments in large language models (LLMs) have successfully enabled generative recommenders with natural language interactions, their recommendation behavior is limited, leaving other simpler yet crucial components such…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Seungheon Doh , Keunwoo Choi , Juhan Nam

Creating spoken dialogue datasets is methodologically challenging, and these challenges are amplified when the goal is to build multilingual, multi-parallel datasets at scale. This work introduces HEALTHDIAL, a large-scale, multilingual,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Songbo Hu , Yinhong Liu , Ej Zhou , Evgeniia Razumovskaia , Xiaobin Wang , Alexander Fraser , Ivan Vulić , Anna Korhonen

Human language expression is based on the subjective construal of the situation instead of the objective truth conditions, which means that speakers' personalities and emotions after cognitive processing have an important influence on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Yirong Chen , Weiquan Fan , Xiaofen Xing , Jianxin Pang , Minlie Huang , Wenjing Han , Qianfeng Tie , Xiangmin Xu

Text-based person search (TBPS) enables the retrieval of person images from large-scale databases using natural language descriptions, offering critical value in surveillance applications. However, a major challenge lies in the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Zequn Xie , Chuxin Wang , Sihang Cai , Yeqiang Wang , Shulei Wang , Tao Jin

One of the exciting capabilities of recent language models for dialog is their ability to independently search for relevant information to ground a given dialog response. However, obtaining training data to teach models how to issue search…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Yonatan Bitton , Shlomi Cohen-Ganor , Ido Hakimi , Yoad Lewenberg , Roee Aharoni , Enav Weinreb

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

Real-world tasks of interest are generally poorly defined by human-readable descriptions and have no pre-defined reward signals unless it is defined by a human designer. Conversely, data-driven algorithms are often designed to solve a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Vinicius G. Goecks , Nicholas Waytowich , David Watkins-Valls , Bharat Prakash

The recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs), particularly conversational LLMs like ChatGPT, have prompted changes in a range of fields, including design. This study aims to examine the capabilities of ChatGPT in a human-centered…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-02-16 A. Baki Kocaballi

Interpretability tools that offer explanations in the form of a dialogue have demonstrated their efficacy in enhancing users' understanding (Slack et al., 2023; Shen et al., 2023), as one-off explanations may fall short in providing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Qianli Wang , Tatiana Anikina , Nils Feldhus , Josef van Genabith , Leonhard Hennig , Sebastian Möller

Dialogue policies play a crucial role in developing task-oriented dialogue systems, yet their development and maintenance are challenging and typically require substantial effort from experts in dialogue modeling. While in many situations,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Makesh Narsimhan Sreedhar , Traian Rebedea , Christopher Parisien

Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have improved their ability to process extended conversational contexts, yet fine-tuning and evaluating short- and long-term memories remain difficult due to the absence of datasets that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Manoj Madushanka Perera , Adnan Mahmood , Kasun Eranda Wijethilake , Quan Z. Sheng

We propose DISC-MedLLM, a comprehensive solution that leverages Large Language Models (LLMs) to provide accurate and truthful medical response in end-to-end conversational healthcare services. To construct high-quality Supervised…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Zhijie Bao , Wei Chen , Shengze Xiao , Kuang Ren , Jiaao Wu , Cheng Zhong , Jiajie Peng , Xuanjing Huang , Zhongyu Wei

User Simulators play a pivotal role in training and evaluating task-oriented dialogue systems. Traditional user simulators typically rely on human-engineered agendas, resulting in generated responses that often lack diversity and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Xiang Luo , Zhiwen Tang , Jin Wang , Xuejie Zhang

This paper provides preliminary results on exploring the task of performing turn-level data augmentation for dialogue system based on different types of commonsense relationships, and the automatic evaluation of the generated synthetic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Marcos Estecha-Garitagoitia , Chen Zhang , Mario Rodríguez-Cantelar , Luis Fernando D'Haro

This paper describes an implementation of a bot assistant in Minecraft, and the tools and platform allowing players to interact with the bot and to record those interactions. The purpose of building such an assistant is to facilitate the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-07-22 Jonathan Gray , Kavya Srinet , Yacine Jernite , Haonan Yu , Zhuoyuan Chen , Demi Guo , Siddharth Goyal , C. Lawrence Zitnick , Arthur Szlam

Building a natural language dataset requires caution since word semantics is vulnerable to subtle text change or the definition of the annotated concept. Such a tendency can be seen in generative tasks like question-answering and dialogue…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Won Ik Cho , Yoon Kyung Lee , Seoyeon Bae , Jihwan Kim , Sangah Park , Moosung Kim , Sowon Hahn , Nam Soo Kim

This perspective paper explores the future potential of "conversational intelligence" by examining how Large Language Models (LLMs) could be combined with GRAPHYP's network system to better understand human conversations and preferences.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Renaud Fabre , Daniel Egret , Patrice Bellot