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20172025
most citedImproving generation quality of pointer networks via guided attention

3 citations · 13 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

cs.CL2025

Emotionally-Aware Agents for Dispute Resolution

Sushrita Rakshit, James Hale, Kushal Chawla +2

In conflict, people use emotional expressions to shape their counterparts' thoughts, feelings, and actions. This paper explores whether automatic text emotion recognition offers in…

cs.CL2025

KODIS: A Multicultural Dispute Resolution Dialogue Corpus

James Hale, Sushrita Rakshit, Kushal Chawla +2

We present KODIS, a dyadic dispute resolution corpus containing thousands of dialogues from over 75 countries. Motivated by a theoretical model of culture and conflict, participant…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Are LLMs Effective Negotiators? Systematic Evaluation of the Multifaceted Capabilities of LLMs in Negotiation Dialogues

Deuksin Kwon, Emily Weiss, Tara Kulshrestha +3

A successful negotiation requires a range of capabilities, including comprehension of the conversation context, Theory-of-Mind (ToM) skills to infer the partner's motives, strategi…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

Be Selfish, But Wisely: Investigating the Impact of Agent Personality in Mixed-Motive Human-Agent Interactions

Kushal Chawla, Ian Wu, Yu Rong +2

A natural way to design a negotiation dialogue system is via self-play RL: train an agent that learns to maximize its performance by interacting with a simulated user that has been…

cs.CL2022

Social Influence Dialogue Systems: A Survey of Datasets and Models For Social Influence Tasks

Kushal Chawla, Weiyan Shi, Jingwen Zhang +3

Dialogue systems capable of social influence such as persuasion, negotiation, and therapy, are essential for extending the use of technology to numerous realistic scenarios. Howeve…

cs.CL2022★ 1 cited

Opponent Modeling in Negotiation Dialogues by Related Data Adaptation

Kushal Chawla, Gale M. Lucas, Jonathan May +1

Opponent modeling is the task of inferring another party's mental state within the context of social interactions. In a multi-issue negotiation, it involves inferring the relative…

cs.HC2021

Towards Emotion-Aware Agents For Negotiation Dialogues

Kushal Chawla, Rene Clever, Jaysa Ramirez +2

Negotiation is a complex social interaction that encapsulates emotional encounters in human decision-making. Virtual agents that can negotiate with humans are useful in pedagogy an…

cs.CL2021

CaSiNo: A Corpus of Campsite Negotiation Dialogues for Automatic Negotiation Systems

Kushal Chawla, Jaysa Ramirez, Rene Clever +3

Automated systems that negotiate with humans have broad applications in pedagogy and conversational AI. To advance the development of practical negotiation systems, we present CaSi…

cs.CL2020

LynyrdSkynyrd at WNUT-2020 Task 2: Semi-Supervised Learning for Identification of Informative COVID-19 English Tweets

Abhilasha Sancheti, Kushal Chawla, Gaurav Verma

We describe our system for WNUT-2020 shared task on the identification of informative COVID-19 English tweets. Our system is an ensemble of various machine learning methods, levera…

cs.HC2020

Pilot: Winner of the Human-Agent Negotiation Challenge at IJCAI 2020

Kushal Chawla, Gale Lucas

This document describes our agent Pilot, winner of the Human-Agent Negotiation Challenge at ANAC, IJCAI 2020. Pilot is a virtual human that participates in a sequence of three nego…

cs.CL2020

Exploring Early Prediction of Buyer-Seller Negotiation Outcomes

Kushal Chawla, Gale Lucas, Jonathan May +1

Agents that negotiate with humans find broad applications in pedagogy and conversational AI. Most efforts in human-agent negotiations rely on restrictive menu-driven interfaces for…

cs.CL2019

Generating summaries tailored to target characteristics

Kushal Chawla, Hrituraj Singh, Arijit Pramanik +2

Recently, research efforts have gained pace to cater to varied user preferences while generating text summaries. While there have been attempts to incorporate a few handpicked char…

cs.LG2019★ 3 cited

Improving generation quality of pointer networks via guided attention

Kushal Chawla, Kundan Krishna, Balaji Vasan Srinivasan

Pointer generator networks have been used successfully for abstractive summarization. Along with the capability to generate novel words, it also allows the model to copy from the i…

cs.AI2019★ 2 cited

Forecasting Granular Audience Size for Online Advertising

Ritwik Sinha, Dhruv Singal, Pranav Maneriker +4

Orchestration of campaigns for online display advertising requires marketers to forecast audience size at the granularity of specific attributes of web traffic, characterized by th…

cs.CL2018★ 3 cited

Aff2Vec: Affect--Enriched Distributional Word Representations

Sopan Khosla, Niyati Chhaya, Kushal Chawla

Human communication includes information, opinions, and reactions. Reactions are often captured by the affective-messages in written as well as verbal communications. While there h…

cs.CL2017★ 2 cited

Investigating how well contextual features are captured by bi-directional recurrent neural network models

Kushal Chawla, Sunil Kumar Sahu, Ashish Anand

Learning algorithms for natural language processing (NLP) tasks traditionally rely on manually defined relevant contextual features. On the other hand, neural network models using…