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Towards Human-centered Proactive Conversational Agents
Yang Deng, Lizi Liao, Zhonghua Zheng +2
Recent research on proactive conversational agents (PCAs) mainly focuses on improving the system's capabilities in anticipating and planning action sequences to accomplish tasks an…
A Survey on Neural Question Generation: Methods, Applications, and Prospects
Shasha Guo, Lizi Liao, Cuiping Li +1
In this survey, we present a detailed examination of the advancements in Neural Question Generation (NQG), a field leveraging neural network techniques to generate relevant questio…
Building Emotional Support Chatbots in the Era of LLMs
Zhonghua Zheng, Lizi Liao, Yang Deng +1
The integration of emotional support into various conversational scenarios presents profound societal benefits, such as social interactions, mental health counseling, and customer…
Revisiting Disentanglement and Fusion on Modality and Context in Conversational Multimodal Emotion Recognition
Bobo Li, Hao Fei, Lizi Liao +5
It has been a hot research topic to enable machines to understand human emotions in multimodal contexts under dialogue scenarios, which is tasked with multimodal emotion analysis i…
REAL: A Representative Error-Driven Approach for Active Learning
Cheng Chen, Yong Wang, Lizi Liao +2
Given a limited labeling budget, active learning (AL) aims to sample the most informative instances from an unlabeled pool to acquire labels for subsequent model training. To achie…
Revisiting Conversation Discourse for Dialogue Disentanglement
Bobo Li, Hao Fei, Fei Li +5
Dialogue disentanglement aims to detach the chronologically ordered utterances into several independent sessions. Conversation utterances are essentially organized and described by…
Actively Discovering New Slots for Task-oriented Conversation
Yuxia Wu, Tianhao Dai, Zhedong Zheng +1
Existing task-oriented conversational search systems heavily rely on domain ontologies with pre-defined slots and candidate value sets. In practical applications, these prerequisit…
DiaASQ : A Benchmark of Conversational Aspect-based Sentiment Quadruple Analysis
Bobo Li, Hao Fei, Fei Li +8
The rapid development of aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA) within recent decades shows great potential for real-world society. The current ABSA works, however, are mostly limi…
Conversation Disentanglement with Bi-Level Contrastive Learning
Chengyu Huang, Zheng Zhang, Hao Fei +1
Conversation disentanglement aims to group utterances into detached sessions, which is a fundamental task in processing multi-party conversations. Existing methods have two main dr…
Reproducibility Companion Paper: Knowledge Enhanced Neural Fashion Trend Forecasting
Yunshan Ma, Yujuan Ding, Xun Yang +5
This companion paper supports the replication of the fashion trend forecasting experiments with the KERN (Knowledge Enhanced Recurrent Network) method that we presented in the ICMR…
Leveraging Multiple Relations for Fashion Trend Forecasting Based on Social Media
Yujuan Ding, Yunshan Ma, Lizi Liao +2
Fashion trend forecasting is of great research significance in providing useful suggestions for both fashion companies and fashion lovers. Although various studies have been devote…