Towards Emotional Support Dialog Systems [PDF]
Emotional support is a crucial ability for many conversation scenarios, including social interactions, mental health support, and customer service chats.
Siyang Liu +7 more
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Opportunities and Challenges in Neural Dialog Tutoring [PDF]
Designing dialog tutors has been challenging as it involves modeling the diverse and complex pedagogical strategies employed by human tutors. Although there have been significant recent advances in neural conversational systems using large language ...
Jakub Macina +6 more
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GALAXY: A Generative Pre-trained Model for Task-Oriented Dialog with Semi-Supervised Learning and Explicit Policy Injection [PDF]
Pre-trained models have proved to be powerful in enhancing task-oriented dialog systems. However, current pre-training methods mainly focus on enhancing dialog understanding and generation tasks while neglecting the exploitation of dialog policy. In this
Wanwei He +11 more
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USR: An Unsupervised and Reference Free Evaluation Metric for Dialog Generation [PDF]
The lack of meaningful automatic evaluation metrics for dialog has impeded open-domain dialog research. Standard language generation metrics have been shown to be ineffective for evaluating dialog models.
Shikib Mehri, M. Eskénazi
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Talk-to-Edit: Fine-Grained Facial Editing via Dialog [PDF]
Facial editing is an important task in vision and graphics with numerous applications. However, existing works are incapable to deliver a continuous and fine-grained editing mode (e.g., editing a slightly smiling face to a big laughing one) with natural ...
Yuming Jiang +4 more
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GODEL: Large-Scale Pre-Training for Goal-Directed Dialog [PDF]
We introduce GODEL (Grounded Open Dialogue Language Model), a large pre-trained language model for dialog. In contrast with earlier models such as DialoGPT, GODEL leverages a new phase of grounded pre-training designed to better support adapting GODEL to
Baolin Peng +8 more
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TripPy: A Triple Copy Strategy for Value Independent Neural Dialog State Tracking [PDF]
Task-oriented dialog systems rely on dialog state tracking (DST) to monitor the user’s goal during the course of an interaction. Multi-domain and open-vocabulary settings complicate the task considerably and demand scalable solutions.
Michael Heck +6 more
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Dialog Inpainting: Turning Documents into Dialogs [PDF]
Many important questions (e.g."How to eat healthier?") require conversation to establish context and explore in depth. However, conversational question answering (ConvQA) systems have long been stymied by scarce training data that is expensive to collect.
Zhuyun Dai +6 more
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Unsupervised Evaluation of Interactive Dialog with DialoGPT [PDF]
It is important to define meaningful and interpretable automatic evaluation metrics for open-domain dialog research. Standard language generation metrics have been shown to be ineffective for dialog.
Shikib Mehri, M. Eskénazi
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Unified Dialog Model Pre-training for Task-Oriented Dialog Understanding and Generation [PDF]
Recently, pre-training methods have shown remarkable success in task-oriented dialog (TOD) systems. However, most existing pre-trained models for TOD focus on either dialog understanding or dialog generation, but not both. In this paper, we propose SPACE,
Wanwei He +6 more
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