The scarcity of Mental Health Professionals (MHPs) available to assist patients underlines
the need for develo** automated systems to help MHPs combat the grievous mental …

Abstract Mental Health Disorders continue plaguing humans worldwide. Aggravating this
situation is the severe shortage of qualified and competent mental health professionals …

Purpose Existing virtual agents (VAs) present in dialogue systems are either information
retrieval based or static goal-driven. However, in real-world situations, end-users might not …

Abstract Creation of Expert and Intelligent Dialogue/Virtual Agent (VA) that can serve
complicated and intricate tasks (need) of the user related to multiple domains and its various …

Contextualization: In recent years, the popularity of virtual agents particularly task-oriented
dialogue agents has increased immensely due to their effectiveness and simplicity in …

This paper proposes a hierarchical method for learning an efficient Dialogue Management
(DM) strategy for task-oriented conversations serving multiple intents of a domain. Deep …

In this paper, we present a persona aware neural reinforcement learning response
generation framework capable of optimizing long-term rewards carefully devised by system …

Building Virtual Agents capable of carrying out complex queries of the user involving
multiple intents of a domain is quite a challenge, because it demands that the agent …

The present study reviewed a number of articles chosen from a screening and selecting
process on the various different methods that can be used in the context of chatbot …