Conversational information seeking

H Zamani, JR Trippas, J Dalton… - … and Trends® in …, 2023 - nowpublishers.com
Conversational information seeking (CIS) is concerned with a sequence of interactions
between one or more users and an information system. Interactions in CIS are primarily …

Report from the nsf future directions workshop on automatic evaluation of dialog: Research directions and challenges

S Mehri, J Choi, LF D'Haro, J Deriu, M Eskenazi… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
This is a report on the NSF Future Directions Workshop on Automatic Evaluation of Dialog.
The workshop explored the current state of the art along with its limitations and suggested …

Prosocialdialog: A prosocial backbone for conversational agents

H Kim, Y Yu, L Jiang, X Lu, D Khashabi, G Kim… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Most existing dialogue systems fail to respond properly to potentially unsafe user utterances
by either ignoring or passively agreeing with them. To address this issue, we introduce …

Human evaluation of conversations is an open problem: comparing the sensitivity of various methods for evaluating dialogue agents

EM Smith, O Hsu, R Qian, S Roller, YL Boureau… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
At the heart of improving conversational AI is the open problem of how to evaluate
conversations. Issues with automatic metrics are well known (Liu et al., 2016, arxiv …

The AI doctor is in: A survey of task-oriented dialogue systems for healthcare applications

M Valizadeh, N Parde - Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting …, 2022 - aclanthology.org
Task-oriented dialogue systems are increasingly prevalent in healthcare settings, and have
been characterized by a diverse range of architectures and objectives. Although these …

DynaEval: Unifying turn and dialogue level evaluation

C Zhang, Y Chen, LF D'Haro, Y Zhang… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
A dialogue is essentially a multi-turn interaction among interlocutors. Effective evaluation
metrics should reflect the dynamics of such interaction. Existing automatic metrics are …

Evaluating conversational recommender systems: A landscape of research

D Jannach - Artificial Intelligence Review, 2023 - Springer
Conversational recommender systems aim to interactively support online users in their
information search and decision-making processes in an intuitive way. With the latest …

Achieving reliable human assessment of open-domain dialogue systems

T Ji, Y Graham, GJF Jones, C Lyu, Q Liu - arxiv preprint arxiv:2203.05899, 2022 - arxiv.org
Evaluation of open-domain dialogue systems is highly challenging and development of
better techniques is highlighted time and again as desperately needed. Despite substantial …

Building a role specified open-domain dialogue system leveraging large-scale language models

S Bae, D Kwak, S Kim, D Ham, S Kang, SW Lee… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Recent open-domain dialogue models have brought numerous breakthroughs. However,
building a chat system is not scalable since it often requires a considerable volume of …

Understanding and predicting user satisfaction with conversational recommender systems

C Siro, M Aliannejadi, M De Rijke - ACM Transactions on Information …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
User satisfaction depicts the effectiveness of a system from the user's perspective.
Understanding and predicting user satisfaction is vital for the design of user-oriented …