The advent of large language models marks a revolutionary breakthrough in artificial
intelligence. With the unprecedented scale of training and model parameters, the capability …

Chatbots are intelligent conversational computer systems designed to mimic human
conversation to enable automated online guidance and support. The increased benefits of …

We present LaMDA: Language Models for Dialog Applications. LaMDA is a family of
Transformer-based neural language models specialized for dialog, which have up to 137B …

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 …

Recently, retrieval-augmented text generation attracted increasing attention of the
computational linguistics community. Compared with conventional generation models …

Pre-training and fine-tuning, eg, BERT, have achieved great success in language
understanding by transferring knowledge from rich-resource pre-training task to the low/zero …

The field of machine translation (MT), the automatic translation of written text from one
natural language into another, has experienced a major paradigm shift in recent years …

This article describes the development of Microsoft **aoIce, the most popular social chatbot
in the world. **aoIce is uniquely designed as an artifical intelligence companion with an …

This tutorial surveys neural approaches to conversational AI that were developed in the last
few years. We group conversational systems into three categories:(1) question answering …

Conversational agents (CAs) have come a long way from their first appearance in the 1960s
to today's generative models. Continuous technological advancements such as statistical …