Recent advances in artificial speech synthesis and machine learning equip AI-powered
conversational agents, from voice assistants to social robots, with the ability to mimic human …

Open-domain conversational agents or chatbots are becoming increasingly popular in the
natural language processing community. One of the challenges is enabling them to …

Conversational agents (CAs) represent an emerging research field in health information
systems, where there are great potentials in empowering patients with timely information …

The development of AI in mental health is a growing field with potential global impact.
Machine agents need to perceive users' mental states and respond empathically. Since …

Conversational artificial intelligence (ConvAI) systems have attracted much academic and
commercial attention recently, making significant progress on both fronts. However, little …

With spoken language interfaces, chatbots, and enablers, the conversational intelligence
became an emerging field of research in man-machine interfaces in several target domains …

Automatic emotion recognition is a challenging task which can make great impact on
improving natural human computer interactions. In this paper, we present our solutions for …

This paper outlines the design and deployment of BoilerBot: a task-oriented multimodal
conversational agent developed for the Alexa Prize TaskBot 2 competition. BoilerBot …

Conversational agents (CAs) are systems that interact with humans through natural
language user interfaces. They include systems with a range of conversational capabilities …

Expression of emotions is a crucial part of daily human communication. Emotion recognition
in conversations (ERC) is an emerging field of study, where the primary task is to identify the …