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PolyAlign: Conditional Human-Distribution Alignment
L. D. M. S. Sai Teja, Ufaq Khan, Sathira Silva +2
Post-training methods such as supervised fine-tuning (SFT) and preference optimization typically align language models toward a single global assistant behavior. While effective fo…
Natural Language Understanding for Argumentative Dialogue Systems in the Opinion Building Domain
Waheed Ahmed Abro, Annalena Aicher, Niklas Rach +3
This paper introduces a natural language understanding (NLU) framework for argumentative dialogue systems in the information-seeking and opinion building domain. The proposed frame…
Towards meaningful, grounded conversations with intelligent agents
Alexandros Papangelis, Stefan Ultes
As conversational agents become integral parts of many aspects of our lives, current approaches are reaching bottlenecks of performance that require increasing amounts of data or i…
Improving Interaction Quality Estimation with BiLSTMs and the Impact on Dialogue Policy Learning
Stefan Ultes
Learning suitable and well-performing dialogue behaviour in statistical spoken dialogue systems has been in the focus of research for many years. While most work which is based on…
Enabling Dialogue Management with Dynamically Created Dialogue Actions
Juliana Miehle, Louisa Pragst, Wolfgang Minker +1
In order to take up the challenge of realising user-adaptive system behaviour, we present an extension for the existing OwlSpeak Dialogue Manager which enables the handling of dyna…
Addressing Objects and Their Relations: The Conversational Entity Dialogue Model
Stefan Ultes, Paweł Budzianowski, Iñigo Casanueva +5
Statistical spoken dialogue systems usually rely on a single- or multi-domain dialogue model that is restricted in its capabilities of modelling complex dialogue structures, e.g.,…