Chatbots are conversational software applications designed to interact dialectically with
users for a plethora of different purposes. Surprisingly, these colloquial agents have only …

With recent advances in question-answering models, various datasets have been collected
to improve and study the effectiveness of these models on scientific texts. Questions and …

Recent years have witnessed the rise of several new argumentation-based support systems,
especially in the healthcare industry. In the medical sector, it is imperative that the exchange …

During their information seeking people tend to filter out all the parts of the available
information that do not fit their existing beliefs or opinions. In this paper we present a model …

Background Chatbots are increasingly used to support COVID-19 vaccination programs.
Their persuasiveness may depend on the conversation-related context. Objective This study …

Dialogue systems are a class of increasingly popular AI-based solutions to support timely
and interactive communication with users in many domains. Due to the apparent possibility …

To provide an engaging and natural interaction with an argumentative dialogue system, we
introduce a model to adapt the system utterances to the user's communication style in an …

Collaborative systems, such as Online Social Networks and the Internet of Things, enable
users to share privacy sensitive content. Content in these systems is often co-owned by …

In recent years, the research of humanoid robots that can change users' opinions has been
conducted extensively. In particular, two robots have been found to be able to improve their …

Dialogue with people who are vaccine hesitant has been recommended as a method to
increase vaccination uptake. The process of cultivating dialogue is shaped by the context in …