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Rohini K. Srihari

4 accepted papers

2025

A Recipe For Building a Compliant Real Estate Chatbot

COLING 2025industry

In recent years, there has been significant effort to align large language models with human preferences. This work focuses on developing a chatbot specialized in the real estate domain, with an emphasis on incorporating compliant behavior to ensure it can be used without perpetuating discriminatory…

2025

Beyond Discrete Personas: Personality Modeling Through Journal Intensive Conversations

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Large Language Models (LLMs) have significantly improved personalized conversational capabilities. However, existing datasets like Persona Chat, Synthetic Persona Chat, and Blended Skill Talk rely on static, predefined personas. This approach often results in dialogues that fail to capture human per…

2022

Dialo-AP: A Dependency Parsing Based Argument Parser for Dialogues

COLING 2022main

While neural approaches to argument mining (AM) have advanced considerably, most of the recent work has been limited to parsing monologues. With an urgent interest in the use of conversational agents for broader societal applications, there is a need to advance the state-of-the-art in argument parse…

2022

Using Multi-Encoder Fusion Strategies to Improve Personalized Response Selection

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Personalized response selection systems are generally grounded on persona. However, a correlation exists between persona and empathy, which these systems do not explore well. Also, when a contradictory or off-topic response is selected, faithfulness to the conversation context plunges. This paper at…