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most citedPlan-Grounded Large Language Models for Dual Goal Conversational Settings

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cs.CL2026

Fine PT-PT Web: A High-Quality 41 Billion Tokens Data Collection of the European Portuguese Web

Gonçalo Vinagre, Rui Pedro Guerra, Pedro Gomes +7

Curating Web corpora for regional language variants like European Portuguese (PT-PT) is heavily bottlenecked by dialectal overlap (mainly with PT-BR) and data processing scale. Thi…

cs.HC2026

Large-Scale User Behavior Analysis in Multimodal AI-Assisted Manual Task Execution

Rafael Ferreira, Diogo Tavares, Diogo Glória-Silva +2

Conversational Task Assistants (CTAs) are multimodal dialogue systems that support users in complex real-world tasks such as cooking and DIY through voice, text, image, and video i…

cs.CV2026

AMALIA-VL: A Native European Portuguese Open-Source Vision and Language Model

Diogo Glória-Silva, João Cardeira, Manuel Letras da Luz +8

Large Vision and Language Models (LVLMs) have advanced rapidly, yet European Portuguese (pt-PT) remains systematically underserved by existing open-source multimodal models, which…

cs.CV2026

PorTEXTO: A European Portuguese Benchmark for Visual Text Extraction

João Cardeira, Diogo Glória-Silva, Manuel Letras da Luz +4

European Portuguese (pt-PT) is largely absent from Optical Character Recognition (OCR) benchmarks, which skew toward high-resource languages. The few benchmarks that cover pt-PT fo…

cs.CR2025

RedTWIZ: Diverse LLM Red Teaming via Adaptive Attack Planning

Artur Horal, Daniel Pina, Henrique Paz +7

This paper presents the vision, scientific contributions, and technical details of RedTWIZ: an adaptive and diverse multi-turn red teaming framework, to audit the robustness of Lar…

cs.CL2025

Global PIQA: Evaluating Commonsense Reasoning Across 100+ Languages and Cultures

Tyler A. Chang, Catherine Arnett, Abdelrahman Sadallah +377

To date, there exist almost no culturally-specific evaluation benchmarks for large language models (LLMs) that cover a large number of languages and cultures. In this paper, we pre…

cs.CL2024

Multi-trait User Simulation with Adaptive Decoding for Conversational Task Assistants

Rafael Ferreira, David Semedo, João Magalhães

Conversational systems must be robust to user interactions that naturally exhibit diverse conversational traits. Capturing and simulating these diverse traits coherently and effici…

cs.CV2024

Show and Guide: Instructional-Plan Grounded Vision and Language Model

Diogo Glória-Silva, David Semedo, João Magalhães

Guiding users through complex procedural plans is an inherently multimodal task in which having visually illustrated plan steps is crucial to deliver an effective plan guidance. Ho…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

GlórIA -- A Generative and Open Large Language Model for Portuguese

Ricardo Lopes, João Magalhães, David Semedo

Significant strides have been made in natural language tasks, largely attributed to the emergence of powerful large language models (LLMs). These models, pre-trained on extensive a…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Plan-Grounded Large Language Models for Dual Goal Conversational Settings

Diogo Glória-Silva, Rafael Ferreira, Diogo Tavares +2

Training Large Language Models (LLMs) to follow user instructions has been shown to supply the LLM with ample capacity to converse fluently while being aligned with humans. Yet, it…

cs.CL2023

TWIZ-v2: The Wizard of Multimodal Conversational-Stimulus

Rafael Ferreira, Diogo Tavares, Diogo Silva +6

In this report, we describe the vision, challenges, and scientific contributions of the Task Wizard team, TWIZ, in the Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge 2022. Our vision, is to build T…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

Rating Prediction in Conversational Task Assistants with Behavioral and Conversational-Flow Features

Rafael Ferreira, David Semedo, João Magalhães

Predicting the success of Conversational Task Assistants (CTA) can be critical to understand user behavior and act accordingly. In this paper, we propose TB-Rater, a Transformer mo…

cs.CL2023

The Wizard of Curiosities: Enriching Dialogues with Fun Facts

Frederico Vicente, Rafael Ferreira, David Semedo +1

Introducing curiosities in a conversation is a way to teach something new to the person in a pleasant and enjoyable way. Enriching dialogues with contextualized curiosities can imp…

cs.CL2023

Grounded Complex Task Segmentation for Conversational Assistants

Rafael Ferreira, David Semedo, João Magalhães

Following complex instructions in conversational assistants can be quite daunting due to the shorter attention and memory spans when compared to reading the same instructions. Henc…

cs.CL2023

Task Conditioned BERT for Joint Intent Detection and Slot-filling

Diogo Tavares, Pedro Azevedo, David Semedo +2

Dialogue systems need to deal with the unpredictability of user intents to track dialogue state and the heterogeneity of slots to understand user preferences. In this paper we inve…