Direct decoding for task-oriented dialogue is known to suffer from the explaining-away effect,
manifested in models that prefer short and generic responses. Here we argue for the use of …

Embodied agents need to be able to interact in natural language understanding task
descriptions and asking appropriate follow up questions to obtain necessary information to …

Quotations are crucial for successful explanations and persuasions in interpersonal
communications. However, finding what to quote in a conversation is challenging for …

The popularity of social media platforms results in a huge volume of online conversations
produced every day. To help users better engage in online conversations, this article …

Open-ended human learning and information-seeking are increasingly mediated by digital
assistants. However, such systems often ignore the user's pre-existing knowledge …

Assessing students' writing ability has always been an important component of research on
automatic essay evaluation. The existing methods usually focus on outputting numerical …

Currently, dialogue systems have attracted increasing research interest. In particular,
background knowledge is incorporated to improve the performance of dialogue systems …

Current Spoken Dialogue Systems (SDSs) often serve as passive listeners that respond only
after receiving user speech. To achieve human-like dialogue, we propose a novel future …

A task-oriented dialogue system capable of expressing personality can improve user
engagement and satisfaction. To realize such a system, this paper presents a method of …

With the increasing popularity of social media, online interpersonal communication now
plays an essential role in people's everyday information exchange. Whether and how a …