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20242026
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7 papers

cs.CL2026

Prompt reinforcing for long-term planning of large language models

Hsien-Chin Lin, Benjamin Matthias Ruppik, Carel van Niekerk +6

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success in a wide range of natural language processing tasks and can be adapted through prompting. However, they remain subopt…

cs.CL2025

Text-to-SQL Task-oriented Dialogue Ontology Construction

Renato Vukovic, Carel van Niekerk, Michael Heck +5

Large language models (LLMs) are widely used as general-purpose knowledge sources, but they rely on parametric knowledge, limiting explainability and trustworthiness. In task-orien…

cs.CL2025

Post-Training Large Language Models via Reinforcement Learning from Self-Feedback

Carel van Niekerk, Renato Vukovic, Benjamin Matthias Ruppik +2

Large Language Models (LLMs) often produce plausible but poorly-calibrated answers, limiting their reliability on reasoning-intensive tasks. We present Reinforcement Learning from…

cs.CL2025

Emotionally Intelligent Task-oriented Dialogue Systems: Architecture, Representation, and Optimisation

Shutong Feng, Hsien-chin Lin, Nurul Lubis +5

Task-oriented dialogue (ToD) systems are designed to help users achieve specific goals through natural language interaction. While recent advances in large language models (LLMs) h…

cs.CL2025

Dialogue Ontology Relation Extraction via Constrained Chain-of-Thought Decoding

Renato Vukovic, David Arps, Carel van Niekerk +4

State-of-the-art task-oriented dialogue systems typically rely on task-specific ontologies for fulfilling user queries. The majority of task-oriented dialogue data, such as custome…

cs.CL2025

A Confidence-based Acquisition Model for Self-supervised Active Learning and Label Correction

Carel van Niekerk, Christian Geishauser, Michael Heck +6

Supervised neural approaches are hindered by their dependence on large, meticulously annotated datasets, a requirement that is particularly cumbersome for sequential tasks. The qua…