Stephanie: Step-by-Step Dialogues for Mimicking Human Interactions in Social Conversations (2025.findings-naacl)
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Hao Yang, Hongyuan Lu, Xinhua Zeng, Yang Liu, Xiang Zhang, Haoran Yang, Yumeng Zhang, Shan Huang, Yiran Wei, Wai Lam
| Challenge: | a new paradigm for dialogue systems is being developed to mimic human interactions . the current single-step dialogue paradigm lacks the depth and fluidity of human interactions. |
| Approach: | They propose a step-by-step dialogue paradigm that mimics human interactions . they use a dataset to fine-tune existing language models . |
| Outcome: | The proposed system mimics the dynamic nature of human conversations . it is compared with existing paradigms and will be released later this year . |
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