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System-Initiated Transitions from Chit-Chat to Task-Oriented Dialogues with Transition Info Extractor and Transition Sentence Generator
Ye Liu, Stefan Ultes, Wolfgang Minker +1
In this work, we study dialogue scenarios that start from chit-chat but eventually switch to task-related services, and investigate how a unified dialogue model, which can engage i…
Unified Conversational Models with System-Initiated Transitions between Chit-Chat and Task-Oriented Dialogues
Ye Liu, Stefan Ultes, Wolfgang Minker +1
Spoken dialogue systems (SDSs) have been separately developed under two different categories, task-oriented and chit-chat. The former focuses on achieving functional goals and the…
Development of a Trust-Aware User Simulator for Statistical Proactive Dialog Modeling in Human-AI Teams
Matthias Kraus, Ron Riekenbrauck, Wolfgang Minker
The concept of a Human-AI team has gained increasing attention in recent years. For effective collaboration between humans and AI teammates, proactivity is crucial for close coordi…
Does It Affect You? Social and Learning Implications of Using Cognitive-Affective State Recognition for Proactive Human-Robot Tutoring
Matthias Kraus, Diana Betancourt, Wolfgang Minker
Using robots in educational contexts has already shown to be beneficial for a student's learning and social behaviour. For levitating them to the next level of providing more effec…
Improving Proactive Dialog Agents Using Socially-Aware Reinforcement Learning
Matthias Kraus, Nicolas Wagner, Ron Riekenbrauck +1
The next step for intelligent dialog agents is to escape their role as silent bystanders and become proactive. Well-defined proactive behavior may improve human-machine cooperation…
ConceptNet infused DialoGPT for Underlying Commonsense Understanding and Reasoning in Dialogue Response Generation
Ye Liu, Wolfgang Maier, Wolfgang Minker +1
The pre-trained conversational models still fail to capture the implicit commonsense (CS) knowledge hidden in the dialogue interaction, even though they were pre-trained with an en…