Abstract Big Data and Deep Learning algorithms combined with enormous computing power
have paved ways for significant technological advancements. Technology is evolving to …

Emotions are physiological states generated in humans in reaction to internal or external
events. They are complex and studied across numerous fields including computer science …

Emotions play an important role in human intelligence and behaviour and are a major
vehicle for communication. Therefore, the integration of emotions in computational models …

Depression is a kind of emotion that negatively impacts people's daily lives. The number of
people suffering from long-term feelings is increasing every year across the globe …

Automatic chatbots (also known as chat-agents) have attracted much attention from both
researching and industrial fields. Generally, the semantic relevance between users' queries …

The SIGIR 2016 workshop on Neural Information Retrieval (Neu-IR) took place on 21 July,
2016 in Pisa. The goal of the Neu-IR (pronounced" New IR") workshop was to serve as a …

На сегодняшний день одним из стремительно развивающихся направлений научных
исследований является создание разговорного интеллекта, способного поддерживать …

Dialogue agent, a derivative of intelligent agent in the field of computational linguistics, is a
computer program that is capable of generating responses and performing conversation in …

Neural conversational models require substantial amounts of dialogue data for their
parameter estimation and are therefore usually learned on large corpora such as chat …

There can be no doubt that the way of human-computer interaction has changed drastically
over the last decade. Dialogue systems (or conversational agents) including voice control …