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In a human-machine dialog scenario, deciding the appropriate time for the machine to take the turn is an open research problem. In contrast, humans engaged in conversations are able to timely decide when to interrupt the speaker for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Andrei C. Coman , Koichiro Yoshino , Yukitoshi Murase , Satoshi Nakamura , Giuseppe Riccardi

The efficiency of natural language processing has improved dramatically with the advent of machine learning models, particularly neural network-based solutions. However, some tasks are still challenging, especially when considering specific…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Robert Lakatos , Gergo Bogacsovics , Balazs Harangi , Istvan Lakatos , Attila Tiba , Janos Toth , Marianna Szabo , Andras Hajdu

Science and engineering problems fall in the category of complex conceptual problems that require specific conceptual information (CI) like math/logic -related know-how, process information, or engineering guidelines to solve them. Large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Nishtha N. Vaidya , Thomas Runkler , Thomas Hubauer , Veronika Haderlein-Hoegberg , Maja Mlicic Brandt

Voice-controlled dialog systems have become immensely popular due to their ability to perform a wide range of actions in response to diverse user queries. These agents possess a predefined set of skills or intents to fulfill specific user…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Ankan Mullick , Sukannya Purkayastha , Saransh Sharma , Pawan Goyal , Niloy Ganguly

The task of dialog management is commonly decomposed into two sequential subtasks: dialog state tracking and dialog policy learning. In an end-to-end dialog system, the aim of dialog state tracking is to accurately estimate the true dialog…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-06-17 Julien Perez

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have led to the development of artificial intelligence (AI)-powered tutoring chatbots, showing promise in providing broad access to high-quality personalized education. Existing works have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Alexander Scarlatos , Ryan S. Baker , Andrew Lan

State-of-the-art task-oriented dialogue systems typically rely on task-specific ontologies for fulfilling user queries. The majority of task-oriented dialogue data, such as customer service recordings, comes without ontology and annotation.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Renato Vukovic , David Arps , Carel van Niekerk , Benjamin Matthias Ruppik , Hsien-Chin Lin , Michael Heck , Milica Gašić

Dialogue topic segmentation supports summarization, retrieval, memory management, and conversational continuity. Despite decades of work, evaluation practice remains dominated by strict boundary matching and F1-based metrics. Modern large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Michael H. Coen

In this paper, we develop the continuous time dynamic topic model (cDTM). The cDTM is a dynamic topic model that uses Brownian motion to model the latent topics through a sequential collection of documents, where a "topic" is a pattern of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-05-19 Chong Wang , David Blei , David Heckerman

Existing conversational models are handled by a database(DB) and API based systems. However, very often users' questions require information that cannot be handled by such systems. Nonetheless, answers to these questions are available in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Raja Kumar

Despite the valuable information contained in software chat messages, disentangling them into distinct conversations is an essential prerequisite for any in-depth analyses that utilize this information. To provide a better understanding of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Ziyou Jiang , Lin Shi , Celia Chen , Jun Hu , Qing Wang

Large language models (LLMs) have become essential in software development, especially for issue resolution. However, despite their widespread use, significant challenges persist in the quality of LLM responses to issue resolution queries.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Ramtin Ehsani , Sakshi Pathak , Preetha Chatterjee

In task-oriented conversational AI evaluation, unsupervised methods poorly correlate with human judgments, and supervised approaches lack generalization. Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) show robust zeroshot and few-shot…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Jinghan Jia , Abi Komma , Timothy Leffel , Xujun Peng , Ajay Nagesh , Tamer Soliman , Aram Galstyan , Anoop Kumar

Real-world data analysis tasks often come with under-specified goals and unclean data. User interaction is necessary to understand and disambiguate a user's intent, and hence, essential to solving these complex tasks. Existing benchmarks…

Dialogue systems are a popular natural language processing (NLP) task as it is promising in real-life applications. It is also a complicated task since many NLP tasks deserving study are involved. As a result, a multitude of novel works on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Jinjie Ni , Tom Young , Vlad Pandelea , Fuzhao Xue , Erik Cambria

Software projects thrive on the involvement and contributions of individuals from different backgrounds. However, toxic language and negative interactions can hinder the participation and retention of contributors and alienate newcomers.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Mia Mohammad Imran , Robert Zita , Rebekah Copeland , Preetha Chatterjee , Rahat Rizvi Rahman , Kostadin Damevski

In Natural Language Processing (NLP), Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated high text generation quality. However, in real-world applications, LLMs must meet increasingly complex requirements. Beyond avoiding misleading or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Xun Liang , Hanyu Wang , Yezhaohui Wang , Shichao Song , Jiawei Yang , Simin Niu , Jie Hu , Dan Liu , Shunyu Yao , Feiyu Xiong , Zhiyu Li

Moderation of user-generated content in an online community is a challenge that has great socio-economical ramifications. However, the costs incurred by delegating this work to human agents are high. For this reason, an automatic system…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-02-01 Etienne Papegnies , Vincent Labatut , Richard Dufour , Georges Linares

We participate in the DSTC9 Interactive Dialogue Evaluation Track (Gunasekara et al. 2020) sub-task 1 (Knowledge Grounded Dialogue) and sub-task 2 (Interactive Dialogue). In sub-task 1, we employ a pre-trained language model to generate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Zekang Li , Zongjia Li , Jinchao Zhang , Yang Feng , Jie Zhou

User intent understanding is a crucial step in designing both conversational agents and search engines. Detecting or inferring user intent is challenging, since the user utterances or queries can be short, ambiguous, and contextually…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Ali Ahmadvand