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Refine and Imitate: Reducing Repetition and Inconsistency in Persuasion Dialogues via Reinforcement Learning and Human Demonstration
Weiyan Shi, Yu Li, Saurav Sahay +1
Persuasion dialogue systems reflect the machine's ability to make strategic moves beyond verbal communication, and therefore differentiate themselves from task-oriented or open-dom…
Structured Attention for Unsupervised Dialogue Structure Induction
Liang Qiu, Yizhou Zhao, Weiyan Shi +5
Inducing a meaningful structural representation from one or a set of dialogues is a crucial but challenging task in computational linguistics. Advancement made in this area is crit…
INSPIRED: Toward Sociable Recommendation Dialog Systems
Shirley Anugrah Hayati, Dongyeop Kang, Qingxiaoyang Zhu +2
In recommendation dialogs, humans commonly disclose their preference and make recommendations in a friendly manner. However, this is a challenge when developing a sociable recommen…
A Tailored Pre-Training Model for Task-Oriented Dialog Generation
Jing Gu, Qingyang Wu, Chongruo Wu +2
The recent success of large pre-trained language models such as BERT and GPT-2 has suggested the effectiveness of incorporating language priors in downstream dialog generation task…
Effects of Persuasive Dialogues: Testing Bot Identities and Inquiry Strategies
Weiyan Shi, Xuewei Wang, Yoo Jung Oh +3
Intelligent conversational agents, or chatbots, can take on various identities and are increasingly engaging in more human-centered conversations with persuasive goals. However, li…