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Conversational Tactile Data Interfaces: Co-Designing Accessible Data Experiences with Blind Users Using Refreshable Tactile Displays and Conversational AI
Samuel Reinders, Munazza Zaib, Bongshin Lee +7
Combining refreshable tactile displays (RTDs) with conversational AI offers a promising approach to accessible data visualization for people who are blind or have low vision (BLV).…
Supporting Multimodal Data Interaction on Refreshable Tactile Displays: An Architecture to Combine Touch and Conversational AI
Samuel Reinders, Munazza Zaib, Matthew Butler +4
Combining conversational AI with refreshable tactile displays (RTDs) offers significant potential for creating accessible data visualization for people who are blind or have low vi…
From Instruction to Output: The Role of Prompting in Modern NLG
Munazza Zaib, Elaf Alhazmi
Prompt engineering has emerged as an integral technique for extending the strengths and abilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) to gain significant performance gains in various N…
Invisible Load: Uncovering the Challenges of Neurodivergent Women in Software Engineering
Munazza Zaib, Wei Wang, Dulaji Hidellaarachchi +1
Neurodivergent women in Software Engineering (SE) encounter distinctive challenges at the intersection of gender bias and neurological differences. To the best of our knowledge, no…
Accessible Data Access and Analysis by People who are Blind or Have Low Vision
Samuel Reinders, Munazza Zaib, Matthew Butler +4
Our work aims to develop new assistive technologies that enable blind or low vision (BLV) people to explore and analyze data readily. At present, barriers exist for BLV people to e…
Distractor Generation in Multiple-Choice Tasks: A Survey of Methods, Datasets, and Evaluation
Elaf Alhazmi, Quan Z. Sheng, Wei Emma Zhang +2
The distractor generation task focuses on generating incorrect but plausible options for objective questions such as fill-in-the-blank and multiple-choice questions. This task is w…
Can we Quantify Trust? Towards a Trust-based Resilient SIoT Network
Subhash Sagar, Adnan Mahmood, Quan Z. Sheng +2
The emerging yet promising paradigm of the Social Internet of Things (SIoT) integrates the notion of the Internet of Things with human social networks. In SIoT, objects, i.e., thin…
Learning to Select the Relevant History Turns in Conversational Question Answering
Munazza Zaib, Wei Emma Zhang, Quan Z. Sheng +3
The increasing demand for the web-based digital assistants has given a rapid rise in the interest of the Information Retrieval (IR) community towards the field of conversational qu…
Keeping the Questions Conversational: Using Structured Representations to Resolve Dependency in Conversational Question Answering
Munazza Zaib, Quan Z. Sheng, Wei Emma Zhang +1
Having an intelligent dialogue agent that can engage in conversational question answering (ConvQA) is now no longer limited to Sci-Fi movies only and has, in fact, turned into a re…
Conversational Question Answering: A Survey
Munazza Zaib, Wei Emma Zhang, Quan Z. Sheng +2
Question answering (QA) systems provide a way of querying the information available in various formats including, but not limited to, unstructured and structured data in natural la…
BERT-CoQAC: BERT-based Conversational Question Answering in Context
Munazza Zaib, Dai Hoang Tran, Subhash Sagar +3
As one promising way to inquire about any particular information through a dialog with the bot, question answering dialog systems have gained increasing research interests recently…
A Short Survey of Pre-trained Language Models for Conversational AI-A NewAge in NLP
Munazza Zaib, Quan Z. Sheng, Wei Emma Zhang
Building a dialogue system that can communicate naturally with humans is a challenging yet interesting problem of agent-based computing. The rapid growth in this area is usually hi…
Towards a Machine Learning-driven Trust Evaluation Model for Social Internet of Things: A Time-aware Approach
Subhash Sagar, Adnan Mahmood, Quan Z. Sheng +2
The emerging paradigm of the Social Internet of Things (SIoT) has transformed the traditional notion of the Internet of Things (IoT) into a social network of billions of interconne…
The 10 Research Topics in the Internet of Things
Wei Emma Zhang, Quan Z. Sheng, Adnan Mahmood +7
Since the term first coined in 1999 by Kevin Ashton, the Internet of Things (IoT) has gained significant momentum as a technology to connect physical objects to the Internet and to…
Deep Conversational Recommender Systems: A New Frontier for Goal-Oriented Dialogue Systems
Dai Hoang Tran, Quan Z. Sheng, Wei Emma Zhang +5
In recent years, the emerging topics of recommender systems that take advantage of natural language processing techniques have attracted much attention, and one of their applicatio…