Thinking globally, acting locally: Distantly supervised global-to-local knowledge selection for background based conversation

P Ren, Z Chen, C Monz, J Ma, M de Rijke - Proceedings of the AAAI …, 2020 - aaai.org
Background Based Conversation (BBCs) have been introduced to help conversational
systems avoid generating overly generic responses. In a BBC, the conversation is grounded …

Linguistically-informed specificity and semantic plausibility for dialogue generation

WJ Ko, G Durrett, JJ Li - Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of …, 2019 - aclanthology.org
Sequence-to-sequence models for open-domain dialogue generation tend to favor generic,
uninformative responses. Past work has focused on word frequency-based approaches to …

Knowledge-enhanced memory model for emotional support conversation

M Jia, Q Chen, L **g, D Fu, R Li - arxiv preprint arxiv:2310.07700, 2023 - arxiv.org
The prevalence of mental disorders has become a significant issue, leading to the increased
focus on Emotional Support Conversation as an effective supplement for mental health …