Existing studies in conversational AI mostly treat task-oriented dialog (TOD) and question answering (QA) as separate tasks. Towards the goal of constructing a agent that can complete user tasks support information seeking, it is important to develop system handle both TOD QA with access various external knowledge sources. In this work, we propose new task, Open-Book (OB-TOD), which combines ex...

Future wireless communications aim to meet multifarious quality-of-experience (QoE) requirements for emerging applications, such as autonomous driving, personalized healthcare, and the Internet-of-Everything (IoE). In particular, in human-computer interaction scenarios, humans may simultaneously control multiple IoE devices using speech augmented/ virtual reality commands, thus, making communic...

Abstract This study examined how to improve students’ regulation of task-oriented reading (TOR). TOR encompasses and information processing needed perform a specific task. Previous studies suggest students can benefit from collaboration script enhance socially shared TOR. The elicits discussions about task perception, strategy selection, reflection. aimed examine the depth sharedness metacognit...