Recent research on proactive conversational agents (PCAs) mainly focuses on improving
the system's capabilities in anticipating and planning action sequences to accomplish tasks …

Dialogue systems are designed to offer human users social support or functional services
through natural language interactions. Traditional conversation research has put significant …

We investigate non-collaborative dialogue agents that must engage in tailored strategic
planning for diverse users to secure a favorable agreement. This poses challenges for …

Large Language Models (LLMs) have sparked substantial interest and debate concerning
their potential emergence of Theory of Mind (ToM) ability. Theory of mind evaluations …

Norm violations occur when individuals fail to conform to culturally accepted behaviors,
which may lead to potential conflicts. Remediating norm violations requires social …

Leveraging an established exercise in negotiation education, we build a novel dataset for
studying how the use of language shapes bilateral bargaining. Our dataset extends existing …

Norms, which are culturally accepted guidelines for behaviours, can be integrated into
conversational models to generate utterances that are appropriate for the socio-cultural …

We investigate non-collaborative dialogue agents, which are expected to engage in
strategic conversations with diverse users, for securing a mutual agreement that leans …