Papers by Rohini K. Srihari
A Recipe For Building a Compliant Real Estate Chatbot (2025.coling-industry)
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| Challenge: | In recent years, there has been significant effort to align large language models with human preferences. |
| Approach: | They propose to use a general instruction-following dataset to generate a chatbot that can be used without perpetuating discriminatory practices like steering and redlining. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model can match closed-source models like GPT-4o while being safer and more compliant. |
Using Multi-Encoder Fusion Strategies to Improve Personalized Response Selection (2022.coling-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing systems that focus on persona do not explore well the correlation between persona and empathy. |
| Approach: | They propose a suite of fusion strategies that capture interaction between persona, emotion, and entailment information of the utterances. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms the previous methods by 2.3% on original personas and 1.9% on revised persona models in terms of hits@1 accuracy. |
Dialo-AP: A Dependency Parsing Based Argument Parser for Dialogues (2022.coling-1)
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| Challenge: | a recent work on argument mining has focused on parsing monologues, while neglecting dialogues. |
| Approach: | They propose an end-to-end argument parser that constructs argument graphs from dialogues . they use extensive pre-training and curriculum learning to train AM . |
| Outcome: | The proposed system performs all sub-tasks of AM and achieves significant improvements . it is compared to existing systems and validated through human evaluation . |
Beyond Discrete Personas: Personality Modeling Through Journal Intensive Conversations (2025.coling-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing LLMs rely on static, predefined personas to capture dynamic and evolving nature of human personalities. |
| Approach: | They propose a dataset with 400,000 conversations and a framework for generating personalized conversations using long-form journal entries from Reddit. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework generates high-quality, personality-rich dialogues grounded in reddit journal entries. |