3 papers
cs.CL2026
Hear2Act: Benchmarking When Prosody Should Change What an Assistant Does
Xinyi Liu, Hooshang Nayyeri, Dilek Hakkani-Tur +6
Prosodic cues can convey task-relevant information that alters the trajectory and outcome of a task-oriented dialogue, even when the words themselves remain unchanged. Yet existing…
cs.CL2026
Beyond Individual Personas: Aligning Synthetic Dialogue to Population-Level Behavior Distributions
Xinyi Liu, Rinat Khaziev, Hooshang Nayyeri +3
Synthetic dialogue corpora are increasingly used as proxies for target dialogue data, yet persona-grounded generators optimize individual conversations rather than corpus compositi…
cs.CL2026
ATOD: An Evaluation Framework and Benchmark for Agentic Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems
Yifei Zhang, Hooshang Nayyeri, Rinat Khaziev +4
Recent advances in task-oriented dialogue (TOD) systems, driven by large language models (LLMs) with extensive API and tool integration, have enabled conversational agents to coord…