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most citedExploring the Impact of Non-Verbal Virtual Agent Behavior on User Engagement in Argumentative Dialogues

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cs.RO2023

A Graph-to-Text Approach to Knowledge-Grounded Response Generation in Human-Robot Interaction

Nicholas Thomas Walker, Stefan Ultes, Pierre Lison

Knowledge graphs are often used to represent structured information in a flexible and efficient manner, but their use in situated dialogue remains under-explored. This paper presen…

cs.CL2023

Retrieval-Augmented Neural Response Generation Using Logical Reasoning and Relevance Scoring

Nicholas Thomas Walker, Stefan Ultes, Pierre Lison

Constructing responses in task-oriented dialogue systems typically relies on information sources such the current dialogue state or external databases. This paper presents a novel…

cs.HC2023

Fostering User Engagement in the Critical Reflection of Arguments

Klaus Weber, Annalena Aicher, Wolfang Minker +2

A natural way to resolve different points of view and form opinions is through exchanging arguments and knowledge. Facing the vast amount of available information on the internet,…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

System-Initiated Transitions from Chit-Chat to Task-Oriented Dialogues with Transition Info Extractor and Transition Sentence Generator

Ye Liu, Stefan Ultes, Wolfgang Minker +1

In this work, we study dialogue scenarios that start from chit-chat but eventually switch to task-related services, and investigate how a unified dialogue model, which can engage i…

cs.CL2023

Unified Conversational Models with System-Initiated Transitions between Chit-Chat and Task-Oriented Dialogues

Ye Liu, Stefan Ultes, Wolfgang Minker +1

Spoken dialogue systems (SDSs) have been separately developed under two different categories, task-oriented and chit-chat. The former focuses on achieving functional goals and the…