Which Model Should We Use for a Real-World Conversational Dialogue System? a Cross-Language Relevance Model or a Deep Neural Net? - Seyed Hossein Alavi; Anton Leuski; David R. Traum (LREC, 2020)

An Interactive Image Editing System Using an Uncertainty-Based Confirmation Strategy. - Seitaro Shinagawa; Koichiro Yoshino; Seyed Hossein Alavi; Kallirroi Georgila; David R. Traum; Sakriani Sakti; Satoshi Nakamura 001 (IEEE Access, 2020)

Interactive Evaluation of Dialog Track at DSTC9. - Shikib Mehri; Yulan Feng; Carla Gordon; Seyed Hossein Alavi; David R. Traum; Maxine Eskénazi (LREC, 2022)

Clever Hans or Neural Theory of Mind? Stress Testing Social Reasoning in Large Language Models. - Natalie Shapira; Mosh Levy; Seyed Hossein Alavi; Xuhui Zhou; Yejin Choi 001; Yoav Goldberg; Maarten Sap; Vered Shwartz (EACL (1), 2024)

MCPDial: A Minecraft Persona-driven Dialogue Dataset. - Seyed Hossein Alavi; Sudha Rao; Ashutosh Adhikari; Gabriel DesGarennes; Akanksha Malhotra; Chris Brockett; Mahmoud Adada; Raymond T. Ng; Vered Shwartz; Bill Dolan (CoRR, 2024)

Game Plot Design with an LLM-powered Assistant: An Empirical Study with Game Designers. - Seyed Hossein Alavi; Weijia Xu; Nebojsa Jojic; Daniel Kennett; Raymond T. Ng; Sudha Rao; Haiyan Zhang; Bill Dolan; Vered Shwartz (CoRR, 2024)

Overview of the Ninth Dialog System Technology Challenge: DSTC9. - R. Chulaka Gunasekara; Seokhwan Kim; Luis Fernando D'Haro; Abhinav Rastogi; Yun-Nung Chen; Mihail Eric; Behnam Hedayatnia; Karthik Gopalakrishnan 001; Yang Liu 004; Chao-Wei Huang; Dilek Hakkani-Tür; Jinchao Li; et al. (IEEE ACM Trans. Audio Speech Lang. Process., 2024)

Bridging Information Gaps with Comprehensive Answers: Improving the Diversity and Informativeness of Follow-Up Questions. - Zhe Liu; Taekyu Kang; Haoyu Wang; Seyed Hossein Alavi; Vered Shwartz (CoRR, 2025)