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Conversational assistants are being progressively adopted by the general population. However, they are not capable of handling complicated information-seeking tasks that involve multiple turns of information exchange. Due to the limited…

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Modern AI systems are complex workflows containing multiple components and data sources. Data provenance provides the ability to interrogate and potentially explain the outputs of these systems. However, provenance is often too detailed and…

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Conversational recommender systems have demonstrated great success. They can accurately capture a user's current detailed preference -- through a multi-round interaction cycle -- to effectively guide users to a more personalized…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Allen Lin , Ziwei Zhu , Jianling Wang , James Caverlee

Exploratory data analysis (EDA) is an essential step for analyzing a dataset to derive insights. Several EDA techniques have been explored in the literature. Many of them leverage visualizations through various plots. But it is not easy to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Ritwik Chaudhuri , Rajmohan C , Kirushikesh DB , Arvind Agarwal

Multi-turn conversations with an Enterprise AI Assistant can be challenging due to conversational dependencies in questions, leading to ambiguities and errors. To address this, we propose an NLU-NLG framework for ambiguity detection and…

Software Development (SD) is remarkably dynamic and is critically dependent on the knowledge acquired by the project's software developers as the project progresses. Software developers need to understand large amounts of information…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Glaucia Melo , Luis Fernando Lins , Paulo Alencar , Donald Cowan

Stakeholders' conversations in requirements elicitation meetings hold valuable insights into system and client needs. However, manually extracting requirements is time-consuming, labor-intensive, and prone to errors and biases. While…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Gianmario Voria , Francesco Casillo , Carmine Gravino , Gemma Catolino , Fabio Palomba

Conversational AI chatbots are transforming industries by streamlining customer service, automating transactions, and enhancing user engagement. However, evaluating these systems remains a challenge, particularly in financial services,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Shailja Gupta , Rajesh Ranjan , Surya Narayan Singh

The increasing reliance on digital information necessitates advancements in conversational search systems, particularly in terms of information transparency. While prior research in conversational information-seeking has concentrated on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Weronika Łajewska , Damiano Spina , Johanne Trippas , Krisztian Balog

Predicting user satisfaction in conversational systems has become critical, as spoken conversational assistants operate in increasingly complex domains. Online satisfaction prediction (i.e., predicting satisfaction of the user with the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-06-04 Jason Ingyu Choi , Ali Ahmadvand , Eugene Agichtein

Generative AI, such as image generation models and large language models, stands to provide tremendous value to end-user programmers in creative and knowledge workflows. Current research methods struggle to engage end-users in a realistic…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Advait Sarkar , Ian Drosos , Rob Deline , Andrew D. Gordon , Carina Negreanu , Sean Rintel , Jack Williams , Benjamin Zorn

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

Large Language Model (LLM)-driven conversational search is shifting information retrieval from reactive keyword matching to proactive, open-ended dialogues. In this context, Conversation Starters are widely deployed to provide personalized…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Yiqing Wu , Haoming Li , Guanyu Jiang , Jiahao Liang , Yongchun Zhu , Jingwu Chen , Feng Zhang

Open-domain dialogue systems aim to generate natural and engaging conversations, providing significant practical value in real applications such as social robotics and personal assistants. The advent of large language models (LLMs) has…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Yufeng Wang , Jinwu Hu , Ziteng Huang , Kunyang Lin , Zitian Zhang , Peihao Chen , Yu Hu , Qianyue Wang , Zhuliang Yu , Bin Sun , Xiaofen Xing , Qingfang Zheng , Mingkui Tan

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has burrowed into our lives in various aspects; however, without appropriate testing, deployed AI systems are often being criticized to fail in critical and embarrassing cases. Existing testing approaches mainly…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Siwei Fu , Anbang Xu , Xiaotong Liu , Huimin Zhou , Rama Akkiraju

Advancements in conversational systems have revolutionized information access, surpassing the limitations of single queries. However, developing dialogue systems requires a large amount of training data, which is a challenge in low-resource…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Heydar Soudani , Evangelos Kanoulas , Faegheh Hasibi

Endowing chatbots with a consistent persona is essential to an engaging conversation, yet it remains an unresolved challenge. In this work, we propose a new retrieval-enhanced approach for personalized response generation. Specifically, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Shuai Liu , Hyundong J. Cho , Marjorie Freedman , Xuezhe Ma , Jonathan May

We introduce LlamaPIE, the first real-time proactive assistant designed to enhance human conversations through discreet, concise guidance delivered via hearable devices. Unlike traditional language models that require explicit user…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Tuochao Chen , Nicholas Batchelder , Alisa Liu , Noah Smith , Shyamnath Gollakota

Knowledge-aided dialogue response generation aims at augmenting chatbots with relevant external knowledge in the hope of generating more informative responses. The majority of previous work assumes that the relevant knowledge is given as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Ante Wang , Linfeng Song , Qi Liu , Haitao Mi , Longyue Wang , Zhaopeng Tu , Jinsong Su , Dong Yu

Conversational recommender systems have attracted immense attention recently. The most recent approaches rely on neural models trained on recorded dialogs between humans, implementing an end-to-end learning process. These systems are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Ahtsham Manzoor , Dietmar Jannach