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Dialogue discourse parsing aims to identify and analyze discourse relations between the utterances within dialogues. However, linguistic features in dialogues, such as omission and idiom, frequently introduce ambiguities that obscure the…

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This paper explores character-driven story continuation, in which the story emerges through characters' first- and second-person narration as well as dialogue -- requiring models to select language that is consistent with a character's…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Wai Man Si , Prithviraj Ammanabrolu , Mark O. Riedl

In many real-world scenarios, the absence of external knowledge source like Wikipedia restricts question answering systems to rely on latent internal knowledge in limited dialogue data. In addition, humans often seek answers by asking…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Shaomu Tan , Denis Paperno

Commonsense inference to understand and explain human language is a fundamental research problem in natural language processing. Explaining human conversations poses a great challenge as it requires contextual understanding, planning,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Deepanway Ghosal , Pengfei Hong , Siqi Shen , Navonil Majumder , Rada Mihalcea , Soujanya Poria

With the advent of technology and use of latest devices, they produces voluminous data. Out of it, 80% of the data are unstructured and remaining 20% are structured and semi-structured. The produced data are in heterogeneous format and…

Conventional approaches to personalized dialogue generation typically require a large corpus, as well as predefined persona information. However, in a real-world setting, neither a large corpus of training data nor persona information are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Jing Yang Lee , Kong Aik Lee , Woon Seng Gan

Building dialogue systems that naturally converse with humans is being an attractive and an active research domain. Multiple systems are being designed everyday and several datasets are being available. For this reason, it is being hard to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-31 Basma El Amel Boussaha , Nicolas Hernandez , Christine Jacquin , Emmanuel Morin

Conversational Machine Reading (CMR) aims at answering questions in a complicated manner. Machine needs to answer questions through interactions with users based on given rule document, user scenario and dialogue history, and ask questions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Siru Ouyang , Zhuosheng Zhang , Hai Zhao

A KRM-based dialogue management (DM) is proposed using to implement human-computer dialogue system in complex scenarios. KRM-based DM has a well description ability and it can ensure the logic of the dialogue process. Then a complex…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Wenwu Qu , Xiaoyu Chi , Wei Zheng

We present our experience as annotators in the creation of high-quality, adversarial machine-reading-comprehension data for extractive QA for Task 1 of the First Workshop on Dynamic Adversarial Data Collection (DADC). DADC is an emergent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Damian Y. Romero Diaz , Magdalena Anioł , John Culnan

Language systems have been of great interest to the research community and have recently reached the mass market through various assistant platforms on the web. Reinforcement Learning methods that optimize dialogue policies have seen…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Floris den Hengst , Mark Hoogendoorn , Frank van Harmelen , Joost Bosman

Multi-party dialogues, common in collaborative scenarios like brainstorming sessions and negotiations, pose significant challenges due to their complexity and diverse speaker roles. Current methods often use graph neural networks to model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Zhongtian Hu , Qi He , Ronghan Li , Meng Zhao , Lifang Wang

Existing multi-turn context-response matching methods mainly concentrate on obtaining multi-level and multi-dimension representations and better interactions between context utterances and response. However, in real-place conversation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Juntao Li , Chang Liu , Chongyang Tao , Zhangming Chan , Dongyan Zhao , Min Zhang , Rui Yan

Conversational search aims to satisfy users' complex information needs via multiple-turn interactions. The key challenge lies in revealing real users' search intent from the context-dependent queries. Previous studies achieve conversational…

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Multi-turn conversation understanding is a major challenge for building intelligent dialogue systems. This work focuses on retrieval-based response matching for multi-turn conversation whose related work simply concatenates the conversation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-07 Zhuosheng Zhang , Jiangtong Li , Pengfei Zhu , Hai Zhao , Gongshen Liu

Recently introduced dialogue systems have demonstrated high usability. However, they still fall short of reflecting real-world conversation scenarios. Current dialogue systems exhibit an inability to replicate the dynamic, continuous,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Jihyoung Jang , Taeyoung Kim , Hyounghun Kim

Annotation corpus for discourse relations benefits NLP tasks such as machine translation and question answering. In this paper, we present SciDTB, a domain-specific discourse treebank annotated on scientific articles. Different from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-12 An Yang , Sujian Li

Medical dialogue generation is an important yet challenging task. Most previous works rely on the attention mechanism and large-scale pretrained language models. However, these methods often fail to acquire pivotal information from the long…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Yu Zhao , Yunxin Li , Yuxiang Wu , Baotian Hu , Qingcai Chen , Xiaolong Wang , Yuxin Ding , Min Zhang

This paper shows that CIDEr-D, a traditional evaluation metric for image description, does not work properly on datasets where the number of words in the sentence is significantly greater than those in the MS COCO Captions dataset. We also…

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