Rethinking conversational agents in the era of large language models: Proactivity, non-collaborativity, and beyond

• Main Authors: DENG, Yang, LEI, Wenqiang, HUANG, Minlie, CHUA, Tat-Seng
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2023
• Subjects: Conversational agents; Conversational information seeking; Conversational systems; Human users; Information seeking; Language model; Open-domain dialog; Proactivity; Task-oriented; Task-oriented dialog; Databases and Information Systems; Information Security
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/9110; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/10113/viewcontent/Rethinking.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Conversational systems are designed to offer human users social support or functional services through natural language interactions. Typical conversation researches mainly focus on the response-ability of the system, such as dialogue context understanding and response generation. In the era of larg...