Conversational agents: Goals, technologies, vision and challenges

M Allouch, A Azaria, R Azoulay - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
In recent years, conversational agents (CAs) have become ubiquitous and are a presence in
our daily routines. It seems that the technology has finally ripened to advance the use of CAs …

Survey on evaluation methods for dialogue systems

J Deriu, A Rodrigo, A Otegi, G Echegoyen… - Artificial Intelligence …, 2021 - Springer
In this paper, we survey the methods and concepts developed for the evaluation of dialogue
systems. Evaluation, in and of itself, is a crucial part during the development process. Often …

A survey of available corpora for building data-driven dialogue systems

IV Serban, R Lowe, P Henderson, L Charlin… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2015 - arxiv.org
During the past decade, several areas of speech and language understanding have
witnessed substantial breakthroughs from the use of data-driven models. In the area of …

A survey on deep reinforcement learning for audio-based applications

S Latif, H Cuayáhuitl, F Pervez, F Shamshad… - Artificial Intelligence …, 2023 - Springer
Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) is poised to revolutionise the field of artificial intelligence
(AI) by endowing autonomous systems with high levels of understanding of the real world …

Luke, I am your father: dealing with out-of-domain requests by using movies subtitles

D Ameixa, L Coheur, P Fialho, P Quaresma - International Conference on …, 2014 - Springer
Even when the role of a conversational agent is well known users persist in confronting them
with Out-of-Domain input. This often results in inappropriate feedback, leaving the user …

On the need for thoughtful data collection for multi-party dialogue: A survey of available corpora and collection methods

K Mahajan, S Shaikh - Proceedings of the 22nd annual meeting of …, 2021 - aclanthology.org
We present a comprehensive survey of available corpora for multi-party dialogue. We survey
over 300 publications related to multi-party dialogue and catalogue all available corpora in a …

Grounding conversations with improvised dialogues

H Cho, J May - arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.09544, 2020 - arxiv.org
Effective dialogue involves grounding, the process of establishing mutual knowledge that is
essential for communication between people. Modern dialogue systems are not explicitly …

Non-goal oriented dialogue agents: state of the art, dataset, and evaluation

A Mehndiratta, K Asawa - Artificial Intelligence Review, 2021 - Springer
Dialogue agent, a derivative of intelligent agent in the field of computational linguistics, is a
computer program that is capable of generating responses and performing conversation in …

A new system for automatic analysis and quality adjustment in audiovisual subtitled‐based contents by means of genetic algorithms

M Souto‐Rico, I González‐Carrasco… - Expert …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In Spain, the subtitling service on television for the deaf has been improving in quantity since
the General Law on Audiovisual Communication was enacted in 2010. This law establishes …

Utterance retrieval based on recurrent surface text patterns

G Dubuisson Duplessis, F Charras, V Letard… - Advances in Information …, 2017 - Springer
This paper investigates the use of recurrent surface text patterns to represent and index
open-domain dialogue utterances for a retrieval system that can be embedded in a …