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Steering Conversational Large Language Models for Long Emotional Support Conversations
Navid Madani, Sougata Saha, Rohini Srihari
In this study, we address the challenge of enabling large language models (LLMs) to consistently adhere to emotional support strategies in extended conversations. We focus on the s…
Consolidating Strategies for Countering Hate Speech Using Persuasive Dialogues
Sougata Saha, Rohini Srihari
Hateful comments are prevalent on social media platforms. Although tools for automatically detecting, flagging, and blocking such false, offensive, and harmful content online have…
Rudolf Christoph Eucken at SemEval-2023 Task 4: An Ensemble Approach for Identifying Human Values from Arguments
Sougata Saha, Rohini Srihari
The subtle human values we acquire through life experiences govern our thoughts and gets reflected in our speech. It plays an integral part in capturing the essence of our individu…
ArgU: A Controllable Factual Argument Generator
Sougata Saha, Rohini Srihari
Effective argumentation is essential towards a purposeful conversation with a satisfactory outcome. For example, persuading someone to reconsider smoking might involve empathetic,…
Diving Deep into Modes of Fact Hallucinations in Dialogue Systems
Souvik Das, Sougata Saha, Rohini K. Srihari
Knowledge Graph(KG) grounded conversations often use large pre-trained models and usually suffer from fact hallucination. Frequently entities with no references in knowledge source…
Using Multi-Encoder Fusion Strategies to Improve Personalized Response Selection
Souvik Das, Sougata Saha, Rohini K. Srihari
Personalized response selection systems are generally grounded on persona. However, there exists a co-relation between persona and empathy, which is not explored well in these syst…
Proto: A Neural Cocktail for Generating Appealing Conversations
Sougata Saha, Souvik Das, Elizabeth Soper +2
In this paper, we present our Alexa Prize Grand Challenge 4 socialbot: Proto. Leveraging diverse sources of world knowledge, and powered by a suite of neural and rule-based natural…
Medical Literature Mining and Retrieval in a Conversational Setting
Souvik Das, Sougata Saha, Rohini K. Srihari
The Covid-19 pandemic has caused a spur in the medical research literature. With new research advances in understanding the virus, there is a need for robust text mining tools whic…
Similarity Based Label Smoothing For Dialogue Generation
Sougata Saha, Souvik Das, Rohini Srihari
Generative neural conversational systems are generally trained with the objective of minimizing the entropy loss between the training "hard" targets and the predicted logits. Often…