Controllable Text Generation (CTG) is an emerging area in the field of natural language
generation (NLG). It is regarded as crucial for the development of advanced text generation …

A conversational chatbot or dialogue system is a computer program designed to simulate
conversation with human users, especially over the Internet. These chatbots can be …

As one of the most advanced techniques in AI, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) can
offer reliable and up-to-date external knowledge, providing huge convenience for numerous …

Large language models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, are able to generate human-like, fluent
responses for many downstream tasks, eg, task-oriented dialog and question answering …

Despite showing increasingly human-like conversational abilities, state-of-the-art dialogue
models often suffer from factual incorrectness and hallucination of knowledge (Roller et al …

The largest store of continually updating knowledge on our planet can be accessed via
internet search. In this work we study giving access to this information to conversational …

Dialogue systems are a popular natural language processing (NLP) task as it is promising in
real-life applications. It is also a complicated task since many NLP tasks deserving study are …

Recommender systems are software applications that help users to find items of interest in
situations of information overload. Current research often assumes a one-shot interaction …

In open-domain dialogue intelligent agents should exhibit the use of knowledge, however
there are few convincing demonstrations of this to date. The most popular sequence to …

In recent years, conversational agents (CAs) have become ubiquitous and are a presence in
our daily routines. It seems that the technology has finally ripened to advance the use of CAs …