Online peer-to-peer support platforms enable conversations between millions of people who
seek and provide mental health support. If successful, web-based mental health …

A proven therapeutic technique to overcome negative thoughts is to replace them with a
more hopeful" reframed thought." Although therapy can help people practice and learn this …

The spread of online misinformation threatens public health, democracy, and the broader
society. While professional fact-checkers form the first line of defense by fact-checking …

A dialogue is essentially a multi-turn interaction among interlocutors. Effective evaluation
metrics should reflect the dynamics of such interaction. Existing automatic metrics are …

Emotion-controllable response generation is an attractive and valuable task that aims to
make open-domain conversations more empathetic and engaging. Existing methods mainly …

In conversation, uptake happens when a speaker builds on the contribution of their
interlocutor by, for example, acknowledging, repeating or reformulating what they have said …

As conversational AI-based dialogue management has increasingly become a trending
topic, the need for a standardized and reliable evaluation procedure grows even more …

Visual Dialog involves" understanding" the dialog history (what has been discussed
previously) and the current question (what is asked), in addition to grounding information in …

With the rapid progress of deep neural models and the explosion of available data
resources, dialogue systems that supports extensive topics and chit-chat conversations are …

Conversational systems are now applicable to almost every business domain. Evaluation is
an important step in the creation of dialog systems so that they may be readily tested and …