ProactiveDialogues

Proactive Dialogue Systems - Paper Reading List

Outline

• Survey
• Tutorial
• Proactive Open-domain Dialogues
  • Target-guided Open-domain Dialogues
  • Emotional Support Dialogues
  • Prosocial Dialogues
• Proactive Task-oriented Dialogue Systems
  • Enriched Task-oriented Dialogues
  • System-initiated Sub-dialogues
  • Non-collaborative Dialogues
• Proactive Conversational Information-Seeking Systems
  • Asking Clarification Questions
  • User Preference Elicitation
  • Over-specified Query Management
• Proactive Hybrid Dialogues
• Proactivity in LLM-based Dialogue Systems
  • In-context Learning / Prompt-based Methods
  • Supervised Fine-tuning
  • Reinforcement Learning

Survey

• A Survey on Proactive Dialogue Systems: Problems, Methods, and Prospects (IJCAI 2023 Survey Track)
• How to Approach Ambiguous Queries in Conversational Search: A Survey of Techniques, Approaches, Tools, and Challenges (ACM Computing Surveys, 2022)
• Let's Negotiate! A Survey of Negotiation Dialogue Systems
• A Survey on Asking Clarification Questions Datasets in Conversational Systems (ACL 2023)

Tutorial

• Goal Awareness for Conversational AI: Proactivity, Non-collaborativity, and Beyond (ACL 2023)
• Proactive Conversational Agents (WSDM 2023)
• Proactive Conversational Agents in the Post-ChatGPT World (SIGIR 2023)

Proactive Open-domain Dialogue Systems

Target-guided Open-domain Dialogues

• Target-Guided Open-Domain Conversation (ACL 2019) [repo]
• Proactive Human-Machine Conversation with Explicit Conversation Goal (ACL 2019) [repo]
• Keyword-Guided Neural Conversational Model (AAAI 2021) [repo]
• TopKG: Target-oriented Dialog via Global Planning on Knowledge Graph (COLING 2022) [repo]
• Interacting with Non-Cooperative User: A New Paradigm for Proactive Dialogue Policy (SIGIR 2022)
• Dialogue Planning via Brownian Bridge Stochastic Process for Goal-directed Proactive Dialogue (ACL 2023 Findings) [repo]
• Target-oriented Proactive Dialogue Systems with Personalization: Problem Formulation and Dataset Curation (EMNLP 2023) [repo]
• Reinforced Target-driven Conversational Promotion (EMNLP 2023) [repo]

Emotional Support Dialogues

• Towards Emotional Support Dialog Systems (ACL 2021) [repo]
• MISC: A Mixed Strategy-Aware Model integrating COMET for Emotional Support Conversation (ACL 2022) [repo]
• Improving Multi-turn Emotional Support Dialogue Generation with Lookahead Strategy Planning (EMNLP 2022) [repo]
• Knowledge-enhanced Mixed-initiative Dialogue System for Emotional Support Conversations (ACL 2023) [repo]

Prosocial Dialogues

• ProsocialDialog: A Prosocial Backbone for Conversational Agents (EMNLP 2022) [repo]
• Just Say No: Analyzing the Stance of Neural Dialogue Generation in Offensive Contexts (EMNLP 2021) [repo]
• The MORAL INTEGRITY CORPUS: A Benchmark for Ethical Dialogue Systems (ACL 2022) [repo]

Proactive Task-oriented Dialogue Systems

Enriched Task-oriented Dialogues

• Adding Chit-chat to Enhance Task-oriented Dialogues (NAACL 2021) [repo]
• KETOD: Knowledge-enriched Task-oriented Dialogue (NAACL 2022 Findings) [repo]
• "What do others think?": Task-Oriented Conversational Modeling with Subjective Knowledge

System-initiated Sub-dialogues

• Database Search Results Disambiguation for Task-oriented Dialog Systems (NAACL 2022)
• TITAN : Task-oriented Dialogues with Mixed-Initiative Interactions (IJCAI 2023)
• Towards Asking Clarification Questions for Information Seeking on Task-Oriented Dialogues. [repo]

Non-collaborative Dialogues

• Deal or No Deal? End-to-End Learning for Negotiation Dialogues (EMNLP 2017) [repo]
• Decoupling Strategy and Generation in Negotiation Dialogues (EMNLP 2018) [repo]
• Persuasion for Good: Towards a Personalized Persuasive Dialogue System for Social Good (ACL 2019) [repo]
• End-to-End Trainable Non-Collaborative Dialog System (AAAI 2020) [repo]
• DialoGraph: Incorporating Interpretable Strategy-Graph Networks into Negotiation Dialogues (ICLR 2021) [repo]
• Improving Dialog Systems for Negotiation with Personality Modeling (ACL 2021) [repo]
• PEPDS: A Polite and Empathetic Persuasive Dialogue System for Charity Donation (COLING 2022) [repo]

Proactive Conversational Information-Seeking Systems

Asking Clarification Questions

• Asking Clarifying Questions in Open-Domain Information-Seeking Conversations (SIGIR 2019) [repo]
• Building and Evaluating Open-Domain Dialogue Corpora with Clarifying Questions (EMNLP 2021) [repo]
• Generating Clarifying Questions for Information Retrieval (WWW 2020)
• Abg-CoQA: Clarifying Ambiguity in Conversational Question Answering (AKBC 2021) [repo]
• PACIFIC: Towards Proactive Conversational Question Answering over Tabular and Textual Data in Finance (EMNLP 2022) [repo]

User Preference Elicitation

• Towards Conversational Search and Recommendation: System Ask, User Respond (CIKM 2018) [repo]
• Estimation-Action-Reflection: Towards Deep Interaction Between Conversational and Recommender Systems (WSDM 2020) [repo]
• Unified Conversational Recommendation Policy Learning via Graph-based Reinforcement Learning (SIGIR 2021) [repo]
• Comparison-based Conversational Recommender System with Relative Bandit Feedback (SIGIR 2021) [repo]
• Multiple Choice Questions based Multi-Interest Policy Learning for Conversational Recommendation (WWW 2022)

Over-specified Query Management

• INSCIT: information-seeking conversations with mixed-initiative interactions (TACL 2023) [repo]

Proactive Hybrid Dialogue Systems

• Towards Conversational Recommendation over Multi-Type Dialogs (ACL 2020) [repo]
• Where to Go for the Holidays: Towards Mixed-Type Dialogs for Clarification of User Goals (ACL 2022)
• Fusing Task-oriented and Open-domain Dialogues in Conversational Agents (AAAI 2022) [repo]
• SalesBot: Transitioning from Chit-Chat to Task-Oriented Dialogues (ACL 2022) [repo]
• A Unified Multi-task Learning Framework for Multi-goal Conversational Recommender Systems (TOIS 2023) [repo]
• MidMed: Towards Mixed-Type Dialogues for Medical Consultation (ACL 2023) [repo]
• NewsDialogues: Towards Proactive News Grounded Conversation (ACL 2023 Findings) [repo]
• OPERA: Harmonizing Task-Oriented Dialogs and Information Seeking Experience (TWEB 2023)
• COOPER: Coordinating Specialized Agents towards a Complex Dialogue Goal (AAAI 2024) [repo]

Proactivity in LLM-based Dialogue Systems

In-context Learning / Prompt-based Methods

• Controllable Mixed-Initiative Dialogue Generation through Prompting (ACL 2023) [repo]
• Ask an Expert: Leveraging Language Models to Improve Strategic Reasoning in Goal-Oriented Dialogue Models (ACL 2023 Findings)
• Improving Language Model Negotiation with Self-Play and In-Context Learning from AI Feedback [repo]
• Prompting and Evaluating Large Language Models for Proactive Dialogues: Clarification, Target-guided, and Non-collaboration (EMNLP 2023 Findings) [repo]

Supervised Fine-tuning

• Building Emotional Support Chatbots in the Era of LLMs [repo]

Reinforcement Learning

• Prompt-Based Monte-Carlo Tree Search for Goal-oriented Dialogue Policy Planning (EMNLP 2023) [repo]
• Plug-and-Play Policy Planner for Large Language Model Powered Dialogue Agents (ICLR 2024) [repo]