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20132026
most citedProto: A Neural Cocktail for Generating Appealing Conversations

5 citations · 24 across the 19 of their papers we have counts for

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20 papers

cs.AI2026

DICE: Decoupling Capability from Intervention Necessity in LLM Tutoring

Sayantan Pal, Kaiyi Ji, Rohini K. Srihari

Fluent guidance is not the same as useful intervention. LLM tutors are typically trained to generate the next teacher utterance, implicitly assuming that every student turn warrant…

cs.LG2025

GRID: Scaling Task-Agnostic Inference in Continual Prompt Tuning

Anushka Tiwari, Sayantan Pal, Rohini K. Srihari +1

Prompt-based continual learning (CL) offers a parameter-efficient way to adapt large language models (LLMs) across task sequences. However, existing methods often rely on task-awar…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

ESC-Judge: A Framework for Comparing Emotional Support Conversational Agents

Navid Madani, Rohini Srihari

Large language models (LLMs) increasingly power mental-health chatbots, yet the field still lacks a scalable, theory-grounded way to decide which model is most effective to deploy.…

cs.CL2024

Beyond Discrete Personas: Personality Modeling Through Journal Intensive Conversations

Sayantan Pal, Souvik Das, Rohini K. Srihari

Large Language Models (LLMs) have significantly improved personalized conversational capabilities. However, existing datasets like Persona Chat, Synthetic Persona Chat, and Blended…

cs.CL2024

A Recipe For Building a Compliant Real Estate Chatbot

Navid Madani, Anusha Bagalkotkar, Supriya Anand +3

In recent years, there has been significant effort to align large language models with human preferences. This work focuses on developing a chatbot specialized in the real estate d…

cs.CL2024

Mitigating Clickbait: An Approach to Spoiler Generation Using Multitask Learning

Sayantan Pal, Souvik Das, Rohini K. Srihari

This study introduces 'clickbait spoiling', a novel technique designed to detect, categorize, and generate spoilers as succinct text responses, countering the curiosity induced by…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

Steering Conversational Large Language Models for Long Emotional Support Conversations

Navid Madani, Sougata Saha, Rohini Srihari

In this study, we address the challenge of enabling large language models (LLMs) to consistently adhere to emotional support strategies in extended conversations. We focus on the s…

cs.CL2024

Improving Dialog Safety using Socially Aware Contrastive Learning

Souvik Das, Rohini K. Srihari

State-of-the-art conversational AI systems raise concerns due to their potential risks of generating unsafe, toxic, unethical, or dangerous content. Previous works have developed d…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Consolidating Strategies for Countering Hate Speech Using Persuasive Dialogues

Sougata Saha, Rohini Srihari

Hateful comments are prevalent on social media platforms. Although tools for automatically detecting, flagging, and blocking such false, offensive, and harmful content online have…

cs.CL2023★ 2 cited

Rudolf Christoph Eucken at SemEval-2023 Task 4: An Ensemble Approach for Identifying Human Values from Arguments

Sougata Saha, Rohini Srihari

The subtle human values we acquire through life experiences govern our thoughts and gets reflected in our speech. It plays an integral part in capturing the essence of our individu…

cs.CL2023

ArgU: A Controllable Factual Argument Generator

Sougata Saha, Rohini Srihari

Effective argumentation is essential towards a purposeful conversation with a satisfactory outcome. For example, persuading someone to reconsider smoking might involve empathetic,…

cs.LG2023

Domain Specific Question Answering Over Knowledge Graphs Using Logical Programming and Large Language Models

Navid Madani, Rohini K. Srihari, Kenneth Joseph

Answering questions over domain-specific graphs requires a tailored approach due to the limited number of relations and the specific nature of the domain. Our approach integrates c…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

Diving Deep into Modes of Fact Hallucinations in Dialogue Systems

Souvik Das, Sougata Saha, Rohini K. Srihari

Knowledge Graph(KG) grounded conversations often use large pre-trained models and usually suffer from fact hallucination. Frequently entities with no references in knowledge source…

cs.CL2022★ 1 cited

Using Multi-Encoder Fusion Strategies to Improve Personalized Response Selection

Souvik Das, Sougata Saha, Rohini K. Srihari

Personalized response selection systems are generally grounded on persona. However, there exists a co-relation between persona and empathy, which is not explored well in these syst…

cs.CL2021★ 1 cited

Assessing Effectiveness of Using Internal Signals for Check-Worthy Claim Identification in Unlabeled Data for Automated Fact-Checking

Archita Pathak, Rohini K. Srihari

While recent work on automated fact-checking has focused mainly on verifying and explaining claims, for which the list of claims is readily available, identifying check-worthy clai…

cs.CL2021★ 5 cited

Proto: A Neural Cocktail for Generating Appealing Conversations

Sougata Saha, Souvik Das, Elizabeth Soper +2

In this paper, we present our Alexa Prize Grand Challenge 4 socialbot: Proto. Leveraging diverse sources of world knowledge, and powered by a suite of neural and rule-based natural…

cs.IR2021

Medical Literature Mining and Retrieval in a Conversational Setting

Souvik Das, Sougata Saha, Rohini K. Srihari

The Covid-19 pandemic has caused a spur in the medical research literature. With new research advances in understanding the virus, there is a need for robust text mining tools whic…

cs.CL2021★ 1 cited

Similarity Based Label Smoothing For Dialogue Generation

Sougata Saha, Souvik Das, Rohini Srihari

Generative neural conversational systems are generally trained with the objective of minimizing the entropy loss between the training "hard" targets and the predicted logits. Often…

cs.CL2021★ 4 cited

Self-Supervised Claim Identification for Automated Fact Checking

Archita Pathak, Mohammad Abuzar Shaikh, Rohini Srihari

We propose a novel, attention-based self-supervised approach to identify "claim-worthy" sentences in a fake news article, an important first step in automated fact-checking. We lev…

cs.IR2013★ 5 cited

A Fuzzy Logic based Method for Efficient Retrieval of Vague and Uncertain Spatial Expressions in Text Exploiting the Granulation of the Spatial Event Queries

Kanagavalli. V. R, Raja. K

The arrangement of things in n-dimensional space is specified as Spatial. Spatial data consists of values that denote the location and shape of objects and areas on the earths surf…