90 citations · 121 across the 3 of their papers we have counts for
3 papers
cs.HC2020★ 90 cited
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…
cs.CL2019★ 3 cited
How to Build User Simulators to Train RL-based Dialog Systems
Weiyan Shi, Kun Qian, Xuewei Wang +1
User simulators are essential for training reinforcement learning (RL) based dialog models. The performance of the simulator directly impacts the RL policy. However, building a goo…
cs.CL2019★ 28 cited
Persuasion for Good: Towards a Personalized Persuasive Dialogue System for Social Good
Xuewei Wang, Weiyan Shi, Richard Kim +4
Developing intelligent persuasive conversational agents to change people's opinions and actions for social good is the frontier in advancing the ethical development of automated di…