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20162025
most citedA Network-based End-to-End Trainable Task-oriented Dialogue System

170 citations · 449 across the 35 of their papers we have counts for

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40 papers

cs.CL2025

Neural Models and Language Model Prompting for the Multidimensional Evaluation of Open-Ended Conversations

Michelle Elizabeth, Alicja Kasicka, Natalia Krawczyk +4

The growing number of generative AI-based dialogue systems has made their evaluation a crucial challenge. This paper presents our contribution to this important problem through the…

cs.LG2025

Robust Detection of Synthetic Tabular Data under Schema Variability

G. Charbel N. Kindji, Elisa Fromont, Lina Maria Rojas-Barahona +1

The rise of powerful generative models has sparked concerns over data authenticity. While detection methods have been extensively developed for images and text, the case of tabular…

cs.LG2025

Datum-wise Transformer for Synthetic Tabular Data Detection in the Wild

G. Charbel N. Kindji, Elisa Fromont, Lina Maria Rojas-Barahona +1

The growing power of generative models raises major concerns about the authenticity of published content. To address this problem, several synthetic content detection methods have…

cs.LG2025

Synthetic Tabular Data Detection In the Wild

G. Charbel N. Kindji, Elisa Fromont, Lina Maria Rojas-Barahona +1

Detecting synthetic tabular data is essential to prevent the distribution of false or manipulated datasets that could compromise data-driven decision-making. This study explores wh…

cs.LG2024

Cross-table Synthetic Tabular Data Detection

G. Charbel N. Kindji, Lina Maria Rojas-Barahona, Elisa Fromont +1

Detecting synthetic tabular data is essential to prevent the distribution of false or manipulated datasets that could compromise data-driven decision-making. This study explores wh…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Exploring ReAct Prompting for Task-Oriented Dialogue: Insights and Shortcomings

Michelle Elizabeth, Morgan Veyret, Miguel Couceiro +2

Large language models (LLMs) gained immense popularity due to their impressive capabilities in unstructured conversations. Empowering LLMs with advanced prompting strategies such a…

cs.CL2024

Talking to Machines: do you read me?

Lina M. Rojas-Barahona

In this dissertation I would like to guide the reader to the research on dialogue but more precisely the research I have conducted during my career since my PhD thesis. Starting fr…

cs.LG2024

Tabular Data Generation Models: An In-Depth Survey and Performance Benchmarks with Extensive Tuning

G. Charbel N. Kindji, Lina Maria Rojas-Barahona, Elisa Fromont +1

The ability to train generative models that produce realistic, safe and useful tabular data is essential for data privacy, imputation, oversampling, explainability or simulation. H…

cs.CL2024

Question Generation in Knowledge-Driven Dialog: Explainability and Evaluation

Juliette Faille, Quentin Brabant, Gwenole Lecorve +2

We explore question generation in the context of knowledge-grounded dialogs focusing on explainability and evaluation. Inspired by previous work on planning-based summarisation, we…

cs.CL2024

WEBDial, a Multi-domain, Multitask Statistical Dialogue Framework with RDF

Morgan Veyret, Jean-Baptiste Duchene, Kekeli Afonouvi +3

Typically available dialogue frameworks have adopted a semantic representation based on dialogue-acts and slot-value pairs. Despite its simplicity, this representation has disadvan…

cs.CL2023★ 2 cited

Unsupervised Auditory and Semantic Entrainment Models with Deep Neural Networks

Jay Kejriwal, Stefan Benus, Lina M. Rojas-Barahona

Speakers tend to engage in adaptive behavior, known as entrainment, when they become similar to their interlocutor in various aspects of speaking. We present an unsupervised deep l…

cs.CL2023

Are cascade dialogue state tracking models speaking out of turn in spoken dialogues?

Lucas Druart, Léo Jacqmin, Benoît Favre +2

In Task-Oriented Dialogue (TOD) systems, correctly updating the system's understanding of the user's needs is key to a smooth interaction. Traditionally TOD systems are composed of…

cs.CV2023★ 6 cited

Interpreting Vision and Language Generative Models with Semantic Visual Priors

Michele Cafagna, Lina M. Rojas-Barahona, Kees van Deemter +1

When applied to Image-to-text models, interpretability methods often provide token-by-token explanations namely, they compute a visual explanation for each token of the generated s…

eess.AS2023

OLISIA: a Cascade System for Spoken Dialogue State Tracking

Léo Jacqmin, Lucas Druart, Yannick Estève +3

Though Dialogue State Tracking (DST) is a core component of spoken dialogue systems, recent work on this task mostly deals with chat corpora, disregarding the discrepancies between…

cs.CL2023

Few-Shot Structured Policy Learning for Multi-Domain and Multi-Task Dialogues

Thibault Cordier, Tanguy Urvoy, Fabrice Lefevre +1

Reinforcement learning has been widely adopted to model dialogue managers in task-oriented dialogues. However, the user simulator provided by state-of-the-art dialogue frameworks a…

cs.CL2023

Investigating the Effect of Relative Positional Embeddings on AMR-to-Text Generation with Structural Adapters

Sebastien Montella, Alexis Nasr, Johannes Heinecke +2

Text generation from Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR) has substantially benefited from the popularized Pretrained Language Models (PLMs). Myriad approaches have linearized the…

cs.CL2022

Graph Neural Network Policies and Imitation Learning for Multi-Domain Task-Oriented Dialogues

Thibault Cordier, Tanguy Urvoy, Fabrice Lefèvre +1

Task-oriented dialogue systems are designed to achieve specific goals while conversing with humans. In practice, they may have to handle simultaneously several domains and tasks. T…

cs.CL2022★ 3 cited

"Do you follow me?": A Survey of Recent Approaches in Dialogue State Tracking

Léo Jacqmin, Lina M. Rojas-Barahona, Benoit Favre

While communicating with a user, a task-oriented dialogue system has to track the user's needs at each turn according to the conversation history. This process called dialogue stat…

cs.CL2022

CoQAR: Question Rewriting on CoQA

Quentin Brabant, Gwenole Lecorve, Lina M. Rojas-Barahona

Questions asked by humans during a conversation often contain contextual dependencies, i.e., explicit or implicit references to previous dialogue turns. These dependencies take the…

cs.CL2022

Active Learning and Multi-label Classification for Ellipsis and Coreference Detection in Conversational Question-Answering

Quentin Brabant, Lina Maria Rojas-Barahona, Claire Gardent

In human conversations, ellipsis and coreference are commonly occurring linguistic phenomena. Although these phenomena are a mean of making human-machine conversations more fluent…

cs.CL2021★ 1 cited

Hyperbolic Temporal Knowledge Graph Embeddings with Relational and Time Curvatures

Sebastien Montella, Lina Rojas-Barahona, Johannes Heinecke

Knowledge Graph (KG) completion has been excessively studied with a massive number of models proposed for the Link Prediction (LP) task. The main limitation of such models is their…

cs.CL2021★ 1 cited

Is the User Enjoying the Conversation? A Case Study on the Impact on the Reward Function

Lina M. Rojas-Barahona

The impact of user satisfaction in policy learning task-oriented dialogue systems has long been a subject of research interest. Most current models for estimating the user satisfac…

cs.CL2020★ 6 cited

Denoising Pre-Training and Data Augmentation Strategies for Enhanced RDF Verbalization with Transformers

Sebastien Montella, Betty Fabre, Tanguy Urvoy +2

The task of verbalization of RDF triples has known a growth in popularity due to the rising ubiquity of Knowledge Bases (KBs). The formalism of RDF triples is a simple and efficien…

cs.CL2020★ 2 cited

Diluted Near-Optimal Expert Demonstrations for Guiding Dialogue Stochastic Policy Optimisation

Thibault Cordier, Tanguy Urvoy, Lina M. Rojas-Barahona +1

A learning dialogue agent can infer its behaviour from interactions with the users. These interactions can be taken from either human-to-human or human-machine conversations. Howev…