3 papers
cs.CL2024
Chitchat as Interference: Adding User Backstories to Task-Oriented Dialogues
Armand Stricker, Patrick Paroubek
During task-oriented dialogues (TODs), human users naturally introduce chitchat that is beyond the immediate scope of the task, interfering with the flow of the conversation. To ad…
cs.CL2024
A Unified Approach to Emotion Detection and Task-Oriented Dialogue Modeling
Armand Stricker, Patrick Paroubek
In current text-based task-oriented dialogue (TOD) systems, user emotion detection (ED) is often overlooked or is typically treated as a separate and independent task, requiring ad…
cs.CL2024
Enhancing Task-Oriented Dialogues with Chitchat: a Comparative Study Based on Lexical Diversity and Divergence
Armand Stricker, Patrick Paroubek
As a recent development, task-oriented dialogues (TODs) have been enriched with chitchat in an effort to make dialogues more diverse and engaging. This enhancement is particularly…