Recent advances and challenges in task-oriented dialog systems

Z Zhang, R Takanobu, Q Zhu, ML Huang… - Science China …, 2020 - Springer
Due to the significance and value in human-computer interaction and natural language
processing, task-oriented dialog systems are attracting more and more attention in both …

Taxonomy of abstractive dialogue summarization: scenarios, approaches, and future directions

Q Jia, Y Liu, S Ren, KQ Zhu - ACM Computing Surveys, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Abstractive dialogue summarization generates a concise and fluent summary covering the
salient information in a dialogue among two or more interlocutors. It has attracted significant …

Topic-aware multi-turn dialogue modeling

Y Xu, H Zhao, Z Zhang - Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on …, 2021 - ojs.aaai.org
In the retrieval-based multi-turn dialogue modeling, it remains a challenge to select the most
appropriate response according to extracting salient features in context utterances. As a …

A deep sequential model for discourse parsing on multi-party dialogues

Z Shi, M Huang - Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial …, 2019 - aaai.org
Discourse structures are beneficial for various NLP tasks such as dialogue understanding,
question answering, sentiment analysis, and so on. This paper presents a deep sequential …

Improving unsupervised dialogue topic segmentation with utterance-pair coherence scoring

L Xing, G Carenini - arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.06719, 2021 - arxiv.org
Dialogue topic segmentation is critical in several dialogue modeling problems. However,
popular unsupervised approaches only exploit surface features in assessing topical …

A practical guide to conversation research: How to study what people say to each other

M Yeomans, FK Boland, HK Collins… - … in Methods and …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Conversation—a verbal interaction between two or more people—is a complex, pervasive,
and consequential human behavior. Conversations have been studied across many …

Improving driver gaze prediction with reinforced attention

K Lv, H Sheng, Z Xiong, W Li… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We consider the task of driver gaze prediction: estimating where the location of the focus of a
driver should be, based on a raw video of the outside environment. In practice, we output a …

Reinforced history backtracking for conversational question answering

M Qiu, X Huang, C Chen, F Ji, C Qu, W Wei… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - ojs.aaai.org
To model the context history in multi-turn conversations has become a critical step towards a
better understanding of the user query in question answering systems. To utilize the context …

Improving context modeling in neural topic segmentation

L Xing, B Hackinen, G Carenini, F Trebbi - arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.03138, 2020 - arxiv.org
Topic segmentation is critical in key NLP tasks and recent works favor highly effective neural
supervised approaches. However, current neural solutions are arguably limited in how they …

Multi-tasking dialogue comprehension with discourse parsing

Y He, Z Zhang, H Zhao - arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.03269, 2021 - arxiv.org
Multi-party dialogue machine reading comprehension (MRC) raises an even more
challenging understanding goal on dialogue with more than two involved speakers …