Applying existing methods to emotional support conversation--which provides valuable
assistance to people who are in need--has two major limitations:(a) they generally employ a …

Text response generation for multimodal task-oriented dialog systems, which aims to
generate the proper text response given the multimodal context, is an essential yet …

Due to the natural multi-modal occurrence format (text, audio, vision) of the dialogues,
textual response generation in dialogues should rely on the multi-modal contexts beyond …

Lexicon-based constrained decoding approaches aim to control the meaning or style of the
generated text through certain target concepts. Existing approaches over-focus the targets …

The development of AI in mental health is a growing field with potential global impact.
Machine agents need to perceive users' mental states and respond empathically. Since …

The task of math word problem (MWP) generation, which generates an MWP given an
equation and relevant topic words, has increasingly attracted researchers' attention. In this …

Empathetic response generation, aiming at understanding the user's situation and feelings
and respond empathically, is crucial in building human-like dialogue systems. Previous …

In general, the existing dialogue systems tend to generate generic responses due to lack of
external knowledge. One of the usual solutions is the Background Based Conversations …

The emergence of mobile devices and messaging applications has revolutionized the way
that information propagates among individuals, and triggers the demand of virtual …

(57) ABSTRACT A system of generating a conversation between artificial intelligences is
proposed. The system includes: first artificial intelligence including a first response …