As ChatGPT goes viral, generative AI (AIGC, aka AI-generated content) has made headlines
everywhere because of its ability to analyze and create text, images, and beyond. With such …

Dialogue systems have attracted more and more attention. Recent advances on dialogue
systems are overwhelmingly contributed by deep learning techniques, which have been …

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 …

Language understanding research is held back by a failure to relate language to the
physical world it describes and to the social interactions it facilitates. Despite the incredible …

We introduce a new approach to generative data-driven dialogue systems (eg chatbots)
called TransferTransfo which is a combination of a Transfer learning based training scheme …

Thanks to artificial intelligence, chatbots have been applied to many consumer-facing
applications, especially to online travel agencies (OTAs). This study aims to identify five …

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 …

Most deep reinforcement learning (RL) systems are not able to learn effectively from off-
policy data, especially if they cannot explore online in the environment. These are critical …

Over the last years, the computational power of mobile devices such as smartphones and
tablets has grown dramatically, reaching the level of desktop computers available not long …

The increased relevance of social media in our daily life has been accompanied by efforts to
manipulate online conversations and opinions. Deceptive social bots—automated or semi …