Large language models (LLMs) are a special class of pretrained language models (PLMs)
obtained by scaling model size, pretraining corpus and computation. LLMs, because of their …

State-of-the-art natural language processing (NLP) models are trained on massive training
corpora, and report a superlative performance on evaluation datasets. This survey delves …

Mastering commonsense understanding and reasoning is a pivotal skill essential for
conducting engaging conversations. While there have been several attempts to create …

Negotiation is a crucial ability in human communication. Recently, there has been a
resurgent research interest in negotiation dialogue systems, whose goal is to create …

Developing high-performing dialogue systems benefits from the automatic identification of
undesirable behaviors in system responses. However, detecting such behaviors remains …

Large Language Models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, have drawn a lot of attentions recently in
the legal domain due to its emergent ability to tackle a variety of legal tasks. However, it is …

The surge of interest in culturally aware and adapted Natural Language Processing (NLP)
has inspired much recent research. However, the lack of common understanding of the …

Scripted dialogues such as movie and TV subtitles constitute a widespread source of
training data for conversational NLP models. However, the linguistic characteristics of those …

Norm violations occur when individuals fail to conform to culturally accepted behaviors,
which may lead to potential conflicts. Remediating norm violations requires social …

Norms, which are culturally accepted guidelines for behaviours, can be integrated into
conversational models to generate utterances that are appropriate for the socio-cultural …