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Task-Oriented Dialogue (TOD) systems are designed to carry out specific tasks by tracking dialogue states and generating appropriate responses to help users achieve defined goals. Recently, end-to-end dialogue models pre-trained based on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Namo Bang , Jeehyun Lee , Myoung-Wan Koo

Dialogue systems for Automatic Differential Diagnosis (ADD) have a wide range of real-life applications. These dialogue systems are promising for providing easy access and reducing medical costs. Building end-to-end ADD dialogue systems…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Srija Macherla , Man Luo , Mihir Parmar , Chitta Baral

Throughout a conversation, the way participants interact with each other is in constant flux: their tones may change, they may resort to different strategies to convey their points, or they might alter their interaction patterns. An…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Yilun Hua , Nicholas Chernogor , Yuzhe Gu , Seoyeon Julie Jeong , Miranda Luo , Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil

Recent large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable performance in aligning generated text with user intentions across various tasks. When it comes to long-form text generation, there has been a growing interest in generation from a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Yinhong Liu , Yixuan Su , Ehsan Shareghi , Nigel Collier

In task-oriented dialogue, a system often needs to follow a sequence of actions, called a workflow, that complies with a set of guidelines in order to complete a task. In this paper, we propose the novel problem of multi-step workflow…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Ramya Ramakrishnan , Ethan R. Elenberg , Hashan Narangodage , Ryan McDonald

Automated service agents require well-structured workflows to provide consistent and accurate responses to customer queries. However, these workflows are often undocumented, and their automatic extraction from conversations remains…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Prafulla Kumar Choubey , Xiangyu Peng , Shilpa Bhagavath , Caiming Xiong , Shiva Kumar Pentyala , Chien-Sheng Wu

Existing function-calling benchmarks focus on single-turn interactions. However, they overlook the complexity of real-world scenarios. To quantify how existing benchmarks address practical applications, we introduce DICE-SCORE, a metric…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Kyochul Jang , Donghyeon Lee , Kyusik Kim , Dongseok Heo , Taewhoo Lee , Woojeong Kim , Bongwon Suh

In contrast with goal-oriented dialogue, social dialogue has no clear measure of task success. Consequently, evaluation of these systems is notoriously hard. In this paper, we review current evaluation methods, focusing on automatic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-14 Amanda Cercas Curry , Helen Hastie , Verena Rieser

The goal-oriented document-grounded dialogue aims at responding to the user query based on the dialogue context and supporting document. Existing studies tackle this problem by decomposing it into two sub-tasks: knowledge identification and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Chang Gao , Wenxuan Zhang , Wai Lam

Task-oriented dialogue systems in industry settings need to have high conversational capability, be easily adaptable to changing situations and conform to business constraints. This paper describes a 3-step procedure to develop a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Lahari Poddar , György Szarvas , Cheng Wang , Jorge Balazs , Pavel Danchenko , Patrick Ernst

Existing dialogue quality evaluation systems can return a score for a given system turn from a particular viewpoint, e.g., engagingness. However, to improve dialogue systems by locating exactly where in a system turn potential problems lie,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Rikiya Takehi , Akihisa Watanabe , Tetsuya Sakai

Dialog state tracking (DST) is a crucial component in a task-oriented dialog system for conversational information access. A common practice in current dialog systems is to define the dialog state by a set of slot-value pairs. Such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Yinpei Dai , Zhijian Ou , Dawei Ren , Pengfei Yu

Large language models for vertical domains are bottlenecked by the scarcity of complex, domain-specific task-oriented dialogues. Existing data acquisition pipelines face a persistent trilemma: expert annotation is expensive, real-world…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Liang Xue , Haoyu Liu , Cheng Wang , Pengyu Chen , Haozhuo Zheng , Yang Liu

The main aim of this paper is to introduce automated generation of scripted dialogue as a worthwhile topic of investigation. In particular the fact that scripted dialogue involves two layers of communication, i.e., uni-directional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Paul Piwek , Kees van Deemter

Spoken dialogue generation is crucial for applications like podcasts, dynamic commentary, and entertainment content, but poses significant challenges compared to single-utterance text-to-speech (TTS). Key requirements include accurate…

Knowledge-grounded dialogue generation is a challenging task because it requires satisfying two fundamental yet often competing constraints: being responsive in a manner that is specific to what the conversation partner has said while also…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Kushal Chawla , Hannah Rashkin , Gaurav Singh Tomar , David Reitter

Dialogue system (DS) attracts great attention from industry and academia because of its wide application prospects. Researchers usually divide the DS according to the function. However, many conversations require the DS to switch between…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Longxuan Ma , Wei-Nan Zhang , Mingda Li , Ting Liu

There is a growing interest in developing goal-oriented dialog systems which serve users in accomplishing complex tasks through multi-turn conversations. Although many methods are devised to evaluate and improve the performance of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-18 Ryuichi Takanobu , Qi Zhu , Jinchao Li , Baolin Peng , Jianfeng Gao , Minlie Huang

The search for a standardized optimum way to communicate using natural language dialog has involved a lot of research. However, due to the diversity of communication domains, we think that this is extremely difficult to achieve and…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Paul Fodor

Open-domain generative dialogue systems have attracted considerable attention over the past few years. Currently, how to automatically evaluate them, is still a big challenge problem. As far as we know, there are three kinds of automatic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Tian Lan , Xian-Ling Mao , Wei Wei , Xiaoyan Gao , Heyan Huang