New Paper at SICSA REALLM Workshop

My latest paper, titled “On The Role of Dialogue Models in the Age of Large Language Models”, will be presented at the upcoming SICSA Workshop on Reasoning, Explanations and Applications of Large Language Models (REALLM).

The paper is joint work with Mark Snaith from RGU in which we further consider the roles that dialogue models play in computational dialogue, how that role is changing with the advent of large-language models (LLMs) that are increasingly capable of dialogue, and argue that even with LLMs that are maximally capable of engaging in dialogue , there’ll still be a role for dialogue model research as in order to provide external bench-marks and regulatory guidance, for LLMs, just as they do for humans. The main advance since our last paper in this area is our ongoing development of a new software framework, PreFACE, that bridges between LLMs and formal dialogue models with the aim of making the best use of the strengths of each approach.