A review of ai-driven conversational chatbots implementation methodologies and challenges (1999–2022)

CC Lin, AYQ Huang, SJH Yang - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
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 …

Conversational agents: Goals, technologies, vision and challenges

M Allouch, A Azaria, R Azoulay - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
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 …

Transfer learning in deep reinforcement learning: A survey

Z Zhu, K Lin, AK Jain, J Zhou - IEEE Transactions on Pattern …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reinforcement learning is a learning paradigm for solving sequential decision-making
problems. Recent years have witnessed remarkable progress in reinforcement learning …

Deep reinforcement learning for dialogue generation

J Li, W Monroe, A Ritter, M Galley, J Gao… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2016 - arxiv.org
Recent neural models of dialogue generation offer great promise for generating responses
for conversational agents, but tend to be shortsighted, predicting utterances one at a time …

Survey on evaluation methods for dialogue systems

J Deriu, A Rodrigo, A Otegi, G Echegoyen… - Artificial Intelligence …, 2021 - Springer
In this paper, we survey the methods and concepts developed for the evaluation of dialogue
systems. Evaluation, in and of itself, is a crucial part during the development process. Often …

Online transfer learning strategy for enhancing the scalability and deployment of deep reinforcement learning control in smart buildings

D Coraci, S Brandi, T Hong, A Capozzoli - Applied Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
In recent years, advanced control strategies based on Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL)
proved to be effective in optimizing the management of integrated energy systems in …

Guesswhat?! visual object discovery through multi-modal dialogue

H De Vries, F Strub, S Chandar… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - openaccess.thecvf.com
We introduce GuessWhat?!, a two-player guessing game as a testbed for research on the
interplay of computer vision and dialogue systems. The goal of the game is to locate an …

A survey of available corpora for building data-driven dialogue systems

IV Serban, R Lowe, P Henderson, L Charlin… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2015 - arxiv.org
During the past decade, several areas of speech and language understanding have
witnessed substantial breakthroughs from the use of data-driven models. In the area of …

Pomdp-based statistical spoken dialog systems: A review

S Young, M Gašić, B Thomson… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Statistical dialog systems (SDSs) are motivated by the need for a data-driven framework that
reduces the cost of laboriously handcrafting complex dialog managers and that provides …

[PDF][PDF] CHATBOT: Architecture, design, & development

J Cahn - University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and …, 2017 - academia.edu
Chatbots are “online human-computer dialog system [s] with natural language.”[1] The first
conceptualization of the chatbot is attributed to Alan Turing, who asked “Can machines …