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CESAR: Automatic Induction of Compositional Instructions for Multi-turn Dialogs
Taha Aksu, Devamanyu Hazarika, Shikib Mehri +4
Instruction-based multitasking has played a critical role in the success of large language models (LLMs) in multi-turn dialog applications. While publicly available LLMs have shown…
EM-Network: Oracle Guided Self-distillation for Sequence Learning
Ji Won Yoon, Sunghwan Ahn, Hyeonseung Lee +3
We introduce EM-Network, a novel self-distillation approach that effectively leverages target information for supervised sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) learning. In contrast to con…
MCR-Data2vec 2.0: Improving Self-supervised Speech Pre-training via Model-level Consistency Regularization
Ji Won Yoon, Seok Min Kim, Nam Soo Kim
Self-supervised learning (SSL) has shown significant progress in speech processing tasks. However, despite the intrinsic randomness in the Transformer structure, such as dropout va…
"What do others think?": Task-Oriented Conversational Modeling with Subjective Knowledge
Chao Zhao, Spandana Gella, Seokhwan Kim +7
Task-oriented Dialogue (TOD) Systems aim to build dialogue systems that assist users in accomplishing specific goals, such as booking a hotel or a restaurant. Traditional TODs rely…
PLACES: Prompting Language Models for Social Conversation Synthesis
Maximillian Chen, Alexandros Papangelis, Chenyang Tao +5
Collecting high quality conversational data can be very expensive for most applications and infeasible for others due to privacy, ethical, or similar concerns. A promising directio…
Selective In-Context Data Augmentation for Intent Detection using Pointwise V-Information
Yen-Ting Lin, Alexandros Papangelis, Seokhwan Kim +6
This work focuses on in-context data augmentation for intent detection. Having found that augmentation via in-context prompting of large pre-trained language models (PLMs) alone do…
Weakly Supervised Data Augmentation Through Prompting for Dialogue Understanding
Maximillian Chen, Alexandros Papangelis, Chenyang Tao +5
Dialogue understanding tasks often necessitate abundant annotated data to achieve good performance and that presents challenges in low-resource settings. To alleviate this barrier,…
Knowledge-Grounded Conversational Data Augmentation with Generative Conversational Networks
Yen-Ting Lin, Alexandros Papangelis, Seokhwan Kim +1
While rich, open-domain textual data are generally available and may include interesting phenomena (humor, sarcasm, empathy, etc.) most are designed for language processing tasks,…
Towards Textual Out-of-Domain Detection without In-Domain Labels
Di Jin, Shuyang Gao, Seokhwan Kim +2
In many real-world settings, machine learning models need to identify user inputs that are out-of-domain (OOD) so as to avoid performing wrong actions. This work focuses on a chall…
Training Conversational Agents with Generative Conversational Networks
Yen-Ting Lin, Alexandros Papangelis, Seokhwan Kim +1
Rich, open-domain textual data available on the web resulted in great advancements for language processing. However, while that data may be suitable for language processing tasks,…
Think Before You Speak: Explicitly Generating Implicit Commonsense Knowledge for Response Generation
Pei Zhou, Karthik Gopalakrishnan, Behnam Hedayatnia +5
Implicit knowledge, such as common sense, is key to fluid human conversations. Current neural response generation (RG) models are trained to generate responses directly, omitting u…
Rome was built in 1776: A Case Study on Factual Correctness in Knowledge-Grounded Response Generation
Sashank Santhanam, Behnam Hedayatnia, Spandana Gella +4
Recently neural response generation models have leveraged large pre-trained transformer models and knowledge snippets to generate relevant and informative responses. However, this…
"How Robust r u?": Evaluating Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems on Spoken Conversations
Seokhwan Kim, Yang Liu, Di Jin +4
Most prior work in dialogue modeling has been on written conversations mostly because of existing data sets. However, written dialogues are not sufficient to fully capture the natu…
Commonsense-Focused Dialogues for Response Generation: An Empirical Study
Pei Zhou, Karthik Gopalakrishnan, Behnam Hedayatnia +5
Smooth and effective communication requires the ability to perform latent or explicit commonsense inference. Prior commonsense reasoning benchmarks (such as SocialIQA and Commonsen…
Towards Zero and Few-shot Knowledge-seeking Turn Detection in Task-orientated Dialogue Systems
Di Jin, Shuyang Gao, Seokhwan Kim +2
Most prior work on task-oriented dialogue systems is restricted to supporting domain APIs. However, users may have requests that are out of the scope of these APIs. This work focus…
Generative Conversational Networks
Alexandros Papangelis, Karthik Gopalakrishnan, Aishwarya Padmakumar +3
Inspired by recent work in meta-learning and generative teaching networks, we propose a framework called Generative Conversational Networks, in which conversational agents learn to…
Kosp2e: Korean Speech to English Translation Corpus
Won Ik Cho, Seok Min Kim, Hyunchang Cho +1
Most speech-to-text (S2T) translation studies use English speech as a source, which makes it difficult for non-English speakers to take advantage of the S2T technologies. For some…
Can I Be of Further Assistance? Using Unstructured Knowledge Access to Improve Task-oriented Conversational Modeling
Di Jin, Seokhwan Kim, Dilek Hakkani-Tur
Most prior work on task-oriented dialogue systems are restricted to limited coverage of domain APIs. However, users oftentimes have requests that are out of the scope of these APIs…
Beyond Domain APIs: Task-oriented Conversational Modeling with Unstructured Knowledge Access Track in DSTC9
Seokhwan Kim, Mihail Eric, Behnam Hedayatnia +4
Most prior work on task-oriented dialogue systems are restricted to a limited coverage of domain APIs, while users oftentimes have domain related requests that are not covered by t…
Machines Getting with the Program: Understanding Intent Arguments of Non-Canonical Directives
Won Ik Cho, Young Ki Moon, Sangwhan Moon +2
Modern dialog managers face the challenge of having to fulfill human-level conversational skills as part of common user expectations, including but not limited to discourse with no…
On Measuring Gender Bias in Translation of Gender-neutral Pronouns
Won Ik Cho, Ji Won Kim, Seok Min Kim +1
Ethics regarding social bias has recently thrown striking issues in natural language processing. Especially for gender-related topics, the need for a system that reduces the model…
Investigating an Effective Character-level Embedding in Korean Sentence Classification
Won Ik Cho, Seok Min Kim, Nam Soo Kim
Different from the writing systems of many Romance and Germanic languages, some languages or language families show complex conjunct forms in character composition. For such cases…
Speech Intention Understanding in a Head-final Language: A Disambiguation Utilizing Intonation-dependency
Won Ik Cho, Hyeon Seung Lee, Ji Won Yoon +2
For a large portion of real-life utterances, the intention cannot be solely decided by either their semantic or syntactic characteristics. Although not all the sociolinguistic and…