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08/17/2023
Fostering User Engagement in the Critical Reflection of Arguments
A natural way to resolve different points of view and form opinions is t...
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08/06/2023
System-Initiated Transitions from Chit-Chat to Task-Oriented Dialogues with Transition Info Extractor and Transition Sentence Generator
In this work, we study dialogue scenarios that start from chit-chat but ...
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07/04/2023
Unified Conversational Models with System-Initiated Transitions between Chit-Chat and Task-Oriented Dialogues
Spoken dialogue systems (SDSs) have been separately developed under two ...
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11/23/2022
GraphWOZ: Dialogue Management with Conversational Knowledge Graphs
We present a new approach to dialogue management using conversational kn...
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09/29/2022
ConceptNet infused DialoGPT for Underlying Commonsense Understanding and Reasoning in Dialogue Response Generation
The pre-trained conversational models still fail to capture the implicit...
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11/28/2021
Context Matters in Semantically Controlled Language Generation for Task-oriented Dialogue Systems
This work combines information about the dialogue history encoded by pre...
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09/07/2021
Empathetic Dialogue Generation with Pre-trained RoBERTa-GPT2 and External Knowledge
One challenge for dialogue agents is to recognize feelings of the conver...
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09/07/2021
Naturalness Evaluation of Natural Language Generation in Task-oriented Dialogues using BERT
This paper presents an automatic method to evaluate the naturalness of n...
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03/03/2021
Natural Language Understanding for Argumentative Dialogue Systems in the Opinion Building Domain
This paper introduces a natural language understanding (NLU) framework f...
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06/29/2020
Towards meaningful, grounded conversations with intelligent agents
As conversational agents become integral parts of many aspects of our li...
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01/21/2020
Improving Interaction Quality Estimation with BiLSTMs and the Impact on Dialogue Policy Learning
Learning suitable and well-performing dialogue behaviour in statistical ...
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07/01/2019
Enabling Dialogue Management with Dynamically Created Dialogue Actions
In order to take up the challenge of realising user-adaptive system beha...
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01/05/2019
Addressing Objects and Their Relations: The Conversational Entity Dialogue Model
Statistical spoken dialogue systems usually rely on a single- or multi-d...
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12/20/2018
Variational Cross-domain Natural Language Generation for Spoken Dialogue Systems
Cross-domain natural language generation (NLG) is still a difficult task...
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09/29/2018
MultiWOZ - A Large-Scale Multi-Domain Wizard-of-Oz Dataset for Task-Oriented Dialogue Modelling
Even though machine learning has become the major scene in dialogue rese...
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09/03/2018
Deep learning for language understanding of mental health concepts derived from Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
In recent years, we have seen deep learning and distributed representati...
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06/14/2018
Nearly Zero-Shot Learning for Semantic Decoding in Spoken Dialogue Systems
This paper presents two ways of dealing with scarce data in semantic dec...
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03/08/2018
Feudal Reinforcement Learning for Dialogue Management in Large Domains
Reinforcement learning (RL) is a promising approach to solve dialogue po...
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11/29/2017
A Benchmarking Environment for Reinforcement Learning Based Task Oriented Dialogue Management
Dialogue assistants are rapidly becoming an indispensable daily aid. To ...
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07/19/2017
Reward-Balancing for Statistical Spoken Dialogue Systems using Multi-objective Reinforcement Learning
Reinforcement learning is widely used for dialogue policy optimization w...
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07/01/2017
Sample-efficient Actor-Critic Reinforcement Learning with Supervised Data for Dialogue Management
Deep reinforcement learning (RL) methods have significant potential for ...
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06/19/2017
Sub-domain Modelling for Dialogue Management with Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning
Human conversation is inherently complex, often spanning many different ...
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10/13/2016
Exploiting Sentence and Context Representations in Deep Neural Models for Spoken Language Understanding
This paper presents a deep learning architecture for the semantic decode...
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09/09/2016
Dialogue manager domain adaptation using Gaussian process reinforcement learning
Spoken dialogue systems allow humans to interact with machines using nat...
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06/10/2016
Conditional Generation and Snapshot Learning in Neural Dialogue Systems
Recently a variety of LSTM-based conditional language models (LM) have b...
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06/08/2016
Continuously Learning Neural Dialogue Management
We describe a two-step approach for dialogue management in task-oriented...
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05/24/2016
On-line Active Reward Learning for Policy Optimisation in Spoken Dialogue Systems
The ability to compute an accurate reward function is essential for opti...
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04/15/2016