This literature review presents the History, Technology, and Applications of Natural Dialog
Systems or simply chatbots. It aims to organize critical information that is a necessary …

Dialogue systems are a popular natural language processing (NLP) task as it is promising in
real-life applications. It is also a complicated task since many NLP tasks deserving study are …

GPT-$3 $ has attracted lots of attention due to its superior performance across a wide range
of NLP tasks, especially with its powerful and versatile in-context few-shot learning ability …

Chatbots or Conversational agents are the next significant technological leap in the field of
conversational services, that is, enabling a device to communicate with a user upon …

Dialogue systems have attracted more and more attention. Recent advances on dialogue
systems are overwhelmingly contributed by deep learning techniques, which have been …

With direct access to human-written reference as memory, retrieval-augmented generation
has achieved much progress in a wide range of text generation tasks. Since better memory …

Perception and expression of emotion are key factors to the success of dialogue systems or
conversational agents. However, this problem has not been studied in large-scale …

There is a resurgent interest in developing intelligent open-domain dialog systems due to
the availability of large amounts of conversational data and the recent progress on neural …

Recently, retrieval-augmented text generation attracted increasing attention of the
computational linguistics community. Compared with conventional generation models …

We propose a new generative language model for sentences that first samples a prototype
sentence from the training corpus and then edits it into a new sentence. Compared to …