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most citedCommonsense Reasoning for Conversational AI: A Survey of the State of the Art

10 citations · 14 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

cs.CL2026

FLEx: Language Modeling with Few-shot Language Explanations

Adar Avsian, Christopher Richardson, Anirudh Sundar +1

Language models have become effective at a wide range of tasks, from math problem solving to open-domain question answering. However, they still make mistakes, and these mistakes a…

cs.CL2024

Schema Augmentation for Zero-Shot Domain Adaptation in Dialogue State Tracking

Christopher Richardson, Roshan Sharma, Neeraj Gaur +3

Zero-shot domain adaptation for dialogue state tracking (DST) remains a challenging problem in task-oriented dialogue (TOD) systems, where models must generalize to target domains…

cs.CL2024

cPAPERS: A Dataset of Situated and Multimodal Interactive Conversations in Scientific Papers

Anirudh Sundar, Jin Xu, William Gay +2

An emerging area of research in situated and multimodal interactive conversations (SIMMC) includes interactions in scientific papers. Since scientific papers are primarily composed…

cs.CL2024

iTBLS: A Dataset of Interactive Conversations Over Tabular Information

Anirudh Sundar, Christopher Richardson, Adar Avsian +1

This paper introduces Interactive Tables (iTBLS), a dataset of interactive conversations that focuses on natural-language manipulation of tabular information sourced from academic…

cs.CL2024

gTBLS: Generating Tables from Text by Conditional Question Answering

Anirudh Sundar, Christopher Richardson, Larry Heck

Distilling large, unstructured text into a structured, condensed form such as tables is an open research problem. One of the primary challenges in automatically generating tables i…

cs.CL2023★ 4 cited

Integrating Summarization and Retrieval for Enhanced Personalization via Large Language Models

Chris Richardson, Yao Zhang, Kellen Gillespie +5

Personalization, the ability to tailor a system to individual users, is an essential factor in user experience with natural language processing (NLP) systems. With the emergence of…

cs.CL2023

SYNDICOM: Improving Conversational Commonsense with Error-Injection and Natural Language Feedback

Christopher Richardson, Anirudh Sundar, Larry Heck

Commonsense reasoning is a critical aspect of human communication. Despite recent advances in conversational AI driven by large language models, commonsense reasoning remains a cha…

cs.CL2023

Learning to Retrieve Engaging Follow-Up Queries

Christopher Richardson, Sudipta Kar, Anjishnu Kumar +4

Open domain conversational agents can answer a broad range of targeted queries. However, the sequential nature of interaction with these systems makes knowledge exploration a lengt…

cs.CL2023★ 10 cited

Commonsense Reasoning for Conversational AI: A Survey of the State of the Art

Christopher Richardson, Larry Heck

Large, transformer-based pretrained language models like BERT, GPT, and T5 have demonstrated a deep understanding of contextual semantics and language syntax. Their success has ena…