Multi-turn dialogue reading comprehension with pivot turns and knowledge

Z Zhang, J Li, H Zhao - IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multi-turn dialogue reading comprehension aims to teach machines to read dialogue
contexts and solve tasks such as response selection and answering questions. The major …

Intent-calibrated self-training for answer selection in open-domain dialogues

W Deng, J Pei, Z Ren, Z Chen, P Ren - Transactions of the …, 2023 - direct.mit.edu
Answer selection in open-domain dialogues aims to select an accurate answer from
candidates. The recent success of answer selection models hinges on training with large …

Contextual fine-to-coarse distillation for coarse-grained response selection in open-domain conversations

W Chen, Y Gong, C Xu, H Hu, B Yao, Z Wei… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
We study the problem of coarse-grained response selection in retrieval-based dialogue
systems. The problem is equally important with fine-grained response selection, but is less …

A static and dynamic attention framework for multi turn dialogue generation

W Zhang, Y Cui, K Zhang, Y Wang, Q Zhu… - ACM Transactions on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Recently, research on open domain dialogue systems have attracted extensive interests of
academic and industrial researchers. The goal of an open domain dialogue system is to …

Selecting query-bag as pseudo relevance feedback for information-seeking conversations

X Zhang, X Chen, S Gao, S Li, X Gao, JR Wen… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Information-seeking dialogue systems are widely used in e-commerce systems, with
answers that must be tailored to fit the specific settings of the online system. Given the user …

Towards Efficient Coarse-grained Dialogue Response Selection

T Lan, XL Mao, W Wei, X Gao, H Huang - ACM Transactions on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Coarse-grained response selection is a fundamental and essential subsystem for the widely
used retrieval-based chatbots, aiming to recall a coarse-grained candidate set from a large …

Exploring dense retrieval for dialogue response selection

T Lan, D Cai, Y Wang, Y Su, H Huang… - ACM Transactions on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Recent progress in deep learning has continuously improved the accuracy of dialogue
response selection. However, in real-world scenarios, the high computation cost forces …

Empowering conversational AI is a trip to Mars: Progress and future of open domain human-computer dialogues

R Yan, W Wu - Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial …, 2021 - ojs.aaai.org
Dialogue systems powered by conversational artificial intelligence (AI) have never been so
popular. Interacting with computer through languages reveals a more natural interface to …

Precognition in contextual spoken language understanding via knowledge distillation

N Su, B Du, Y Zhang, C Liu, Y Wang… - ICASSP 2023-2023 …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Task-oriented dialogue systems have become overwhelmingly popular in recent
researches. Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) is widely used to extract the semantics …

Hierarchical matching network for multi-turn response selection in retrieval-based chatbots

H Ma, J Wang, H Lin, Y Zhang - Soft Computing, 2021 - Springer
Proper response selection is a crucial challenge in retrieval-based chatbots. The state-of-the-
art methods match a response with the word sequence of a context, or match the response …