One of the hardest problems in the area of Natural Language Processing and Artificial
Intelligence is automatically generating language that is coherent and understandable to …

End-to-end sequence generation is a popular technique for developing open domain
dialogue systems, though they suffer from the safe response problem. Researchers have …

Background Based Conversation (BBCs) have been introduced to help conversational
systems avoid generating overly generic responses. In a BBC, the conversation is grounded …

With the rapid progress of deep neural models and the explosion of available data
resources, dialogue systems that supports extensive topics and chit-chat conversations are …

Neural conversation models such as encoder-decoder models are easy to generate bland
and generic responses. Some researchers propose to use the conditional variational …

We present an end-to-end approach for knowledge-grounded response generation in
Dialog System Technology Challenges 7 (DSTC7). Our system is trained by a pointer …

An important aspect of developing dialogue systems is how to evaluate and compare the
performance of different systems. Existing automatic evaluation metrics are based on turn …

Effective dialogue involves grounding, the process of establishing mutual knowledge that is
essential for communication between people. Modern dialogue systems are not explicitly …

Sequence-to-sequence models for open-domain dialogue generation tend to favor generic,
uninformative responses. Past work has focused on word frequency-based approaches to …

The prevalence of mental disorders has become a significant issue, leading to the increased
focus on Emotional Support Conversation as an effective supplement for mental health …