The rapid development of aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA) within recent decades shows great potential for real-world society. The current ABSA works, however, are mostly limited to the scenario of a single text piece, leaving the study in dialogue contexts unexplored. In this work, we introduce a novel task of conversational aspect-based sentiment quadruple analysis, namely DiaASQ, aiming to detect the sentiment quadruple of target-aspect-opinion-sentiment in a dialogue. DiaASQ bridges the gap between fine-grained sentiment analysis and conversational opinion mining. We manually construct a large-scale, high-quality Chinese dataset and also obtain the English version dataset via manual translation. We deliberately propose a neural model to benchmark the task. It advances in effectively performing end-to-end quadruple prediction and manages to incorporate rich dialogue-specific and discourse feature representations for better cross-utterance quadruple extraction. We finally point out several potential future works to facilitate the follow-up research of this new task. The DiaASQ data is open at https://github.com/unikcc/DiaASQ

As an important fine-grained sentiment analysis problem, aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA), aiming to analyze and understand people's opinions at the aspect level, has been attracting considerable interest in the last decade. To handle ABSA in different scenarios, various tasks are introduced for analyzing different sentiment elements and their relations, including the aspect term, aspect category, opinion term, and sentiment polarity. Unlike early ABSA works focusing on a single sentiment element, many compound ABSA tasks involving multiple elements have been studied in recent years for capturing more complete aspect-level sentiment information. However, a systematic review of various ABSA tasks and their corresponding solutions is still lacking, which we aim to fill in this survey. More specifically, we provide a new taxonomy for ABSA which organizes existing studies from the axes of concerned sentiment elements, with an emphasis on recent advances of compound ABSA tasks. From the perspective of solutions, we summarize the utilization of pre-trained language models for ABSA, which improved the performance of ABSA to a new stage. Besides, techniques for building more practical ABSA systems in cross-domain/lingual scenarios are discussed. Finally, we review some emerging topics and discuss some open challenges to outlook potential future directions of ABSA.

在本文中，我们介绍了基于大型预训练的语言模型（PLM）pangu-alpha（Zeng等，2021）的中国预训练的开放域对话生成模型。与其他对大量对话数据进行培训的预训练的对话模型不同，我们旨在通过继承PLM的有价值的语言能力和知识来构建强大的对话模型，并以相对较少的数据和计算成本构建强大的对话模型。为此，我们训练大型PLM Pangu-Alpha的Pangu-bot，该机器人已被证明在各种中国自然语言任务上表现出色。我们研究了pangu-bot产生的响应的不同方面，包括响应质量，知识和安全性。我们表明，Pangu-Bot优于最先进的中国对话系统（CDIALGPT（Wang等，2020），Eva（Zhou等，2021），EVA2.0（Gu等，2022）） W.R.T.以上三个方面。我们还证明，可以轻松地部署pangu-bot，以在没有进一步训练的情况下产生情感反应。在整个经验分析中，我们还指出，Pangu-bot响应质量，知识正确性和安全性仍然远非完美，进一步的探索对于建立可靠且智能的对话系统是必不可少的。我们的型号和代码将在https://github.com/huawei-noah/pretretaining-language-model/tree/master/master/pangu-bot上提供。

Target-specific stance detection on social media, which aims at classifying a textual data instance such as a post or a comment into a stance class of a target issue, has become an emerging opinion mining paradigm of importance. An example application would be to overcome vaccine hesitancy in combating the coronavirus pandemic. However, existing stance detection strategies rely merely on the individual instances which cannot always capture the expressed stance of a given target. In response, we address a new task called conversational stance detection which is to infer the stance towards a given target (e.g., COVID-19 vaccination) when given a data instance and its corresponding conversation thread. To tackle the task, we first propose a benchmarking conversational stance detection (CSD) dataset with annotations of stances and the structures of conversation threads among the instances based on six major social media platforms in Hong Kong. To infer the desired stances from both data instances and conversation threads, we propose a model called Branch-BERT that incorporates contextual information in conversation threads. Extensive experiments on our CSD dataset show that our proposed model outperforms all the baseline models that do not make use of contextual information. Specifically, it improves the F1 score by 10.3% compared with the state-of-the-art method in the SemEval-2016 Task 6 competition. This shows the potential of incorporating rich contextual information on detecting target-specific stances on social media platforms and implies a more practical way to construct future stance detection tasks.

Controllable Text Generation (CTG) is emerging area in the field of natural language generation (NLG). It is regarded as crucial for the development of advanced text generation technologies that are more natural and better meet the specific constraints in practical applications. In recent years, methods using large-scale pre-trained language models (PLMs), in particular the widely used transformer-based PLMs, have become a new paradigm of NLG, allowing generation of more diverse and fluent text. However, due to the lower level of interpretability of deep neural networks, the controllability of these methods need to be guaranteed. To this end, controllable text generation using transformer-based PLMs has become a rapidly growing yet challenging new research hotspot. A diverse range of approaches have emerged in the recent 3-4 years, targeting different CTG tasks which may require different types of controlled constraints. In this paper, we present a systematic critical review on the common tasks, main approaches and evaluation methods in this area. Finally, we discuss the challenges that the field is facing, and put forward various promising future directions. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first survey paper to summarize CTG techniques from the perspective of PLMs. We hope it can help researchers in related fields to quickly track the academic frontier, providing them with a landscape of the area and a roadmap for future research.

讽刺可以被定义为说或写讽刺与一个人真正想表达的相反，通常是为了侮辱，刺激或娱乐某人。由于文本数据中讽刺性的性质晦涩难懂，因此检测到情感分析研究社区的困难和非常感兴趣。尽管讽刺检测的研究跨越了十多年，但最近已经取得了一些重大进步，包括在多模式环境中采用了无监督的预训练的预训练的变压器，并整合了环境以识别讽刺。在这项研究中，我们旨在简要概述英语计算讽刺研究的最新进步和趋势。我们描述了与讽刺有关的相关数据集，方法，趋势，问题，挑战和任务，这些数据集，趋势，问题，挑战和任务是无法检测到的。我们的研究提供了讽刺数据集，讽刺特征及其提取方法以及各种方法的性能分析，这些表可以帮助相关领域的研究人员了解当前的讽刺检测中最新实践。

Covid-19大流行的发作使风险的心理健康带来了。社会咨询在这种环境中取得了显着意义。与一般面向目标的对话不同，患者和治疗师之间的对话是相当明暗的，尽管谈话的目标非常明显。在这种情况下，了解患者的目的在提供治疗会话中提供有效咨询方面是必要的，同样适用于对话系统。在这项工作中，我们前进是一个小小的一步，在开发精神健康咨询的自动对话系统中。我们开发一个名为HOPE的新型数据集，为咨询谈话中的对话行为分类提供平台。我们确定此类对话的要求，并提出了12个域特定的对话法（DAC）标签。我们收集12.9k的话语从youtube上公开的咨询会话视频，用DAC标签提取他们的成绩单，清洁并注释它们。此外，我们提出了一种基于变压器的架构的Sparta，具有新颖的扬声器和时间感知的语境学习，用于对话行动分类。我们的评价显示了若干基线的令人信服的表现，实现了最先进的希望。我们还通过对Sparta进行广泛的实证和定性分析来补充我们的实验。

最近，通过“向导”模拟游戏收集了一类以任务为导向的对话（TOD）数据集。但是，《巫师》数据实际上是模拟的数据，因此与现实生活中的对话根本不同，这些对话更加嘈杂和随意。最近，Seretod挑战赛是组织的，并发布了Mobilecs数据集，该数据集由来自中国移动的真实用户和客户服务人员之间的真实世界对话框组成。基于Mobilecs数据集，Seretod挑战具有两个任务，不仅评估了对话系统本身的构建，而且还检查了对话框成绩单中的信息提取，这对于建立TOD的知识库至关重要。本文主要介绍了Mobilecs数据集对这两项任务的基线研究。我们介绍了如何构建两个基线，遇到的问题以及结果。我们预计基线可以促进令人兴奋的未来研究，以建立针对现实生活任务的人类机器人对话系统。

了解用户对话中的毒性无疑是一个重要问题。正如在以前的工作中所说的那样，解决“隐秘”或隐含毒性案件特别困难，需要上下文。以前很少有研究已经分析了会话语境在人类感知或自动检测模型中的影响。我们深入探讨这两个方向。我们首先分析现有的上下文数据集，并得出结论，人类的毒性标记一般受到对话结构，极性和主题的影响。然后，我们建议通过引入（a）神经架构来将这些发现带入计算检测模型中，以了解会话结构的语境毒性检测，以及（b）可以帮助模拟语境毒性检测的数据增强策略。我们的结果表明了了解谈话结构的神经架构的令人鼓舞的潜力。我们还表明，这些模型可以从合成数据中受益，尤其是在社交媒体领域。

情感分析是NLP中研究最广泛的应用程序之一，但大多数工作都集中在具有大量数据的语言上。我们介绍了尼日利亚的四种口语最广泛的语言（Hausa，Igbo，Nigerian-Pidgin和Yor \'ub \'a）的第一个大规模的人类通知的Twitter情感数据集，该数据集由大约30,000个注释的推文组成（以及每种语言的大约30,000个）（以及14,000尼日利亚猎人），其中包括大量的代码混合推文。我们提出了文本收集，过滤，处理和标记方法，使我们能够为这些低资源语言创建数据集。我们评估了数据集上的预训练模型和转移策略。我们发现特定于语言的模型和语言适应性芬通常表现最好。我们将数据集，训练的模型，情感词典和代码释放到激励措施中，以代表性不足的语言进行情感分析。

发现别人认为是我们信息收集策略的关键方面。现在，人们可以积极利用信息技术来寻找和理解他人的想法，这要归功于越来越多的意见资源（例如在线评论网站和个人博客）的越来越多。由于其在理解人们的意见方面的关键功能，因此情感分析（SA）是一项至关重要的任务。另一方面，现有的研究主要集中在英语上，只有少量研究专门研究低资源语言。对于情感分析，这项工作根据用户评估提供了一个新的多级乌尔都语数据集。高音扬声器网站用于获取乌尔都语数据集。我们提出的数据集包括10,000项评论，这些评论已被人类专家精心归类为两类：正面，负面。这项研究的主要目的是构建一个手动注释的数据集进行乌尔都语情绪分析，并确定基线结果。采用了五种不同的词典和规则的算法，包括NaiveBayes，Stanza，TextBlob，Vader和Flair，实验结果表明，其精度为70％的天赋优于其他经过测试的算法。

现有的多方对话数据集用于核心分辨率是新生的，许多挑战仍然没有解决。我们根据电视成绩单为此任务创建了一个大规模数据集，多语言多方CoreF（MMC）。由于使用多种语言的黄金质量字幕可用，我们建议重复注释以通过注释投影以其他语言（中文和Farsi）创建银色核心数据。在黄金（英语）数据上，现成的模型在MMC上的性能相对较差，这表明MMC比以前的数据集更广泛地覆盖多方核心。在银数据上，我们发现成功使用它进行数据增强和从头开始训练，这有效地模拟了零击的跨语性设置。

Recent directions for offensive language detection are hierarchical modeling, identifying the type and the target of offensive language, and interpretability with offensive span annotation and prediction. These improvements are focused on English and do not transfer well to other languages because of cultural and linguistic differences. In this paper, we present the Korean Offensive Language Dataset (KOLD) comprising 40,429 comments, which are annotated hierarchically with the type and the target of offensive language, accompanied by annotations of the corresponding text spans. We collect the comments from NAVER news and YouTube platform and provide the titles of the articles and videos as the context information for the annotation process. We use these annotated comments as training data for Korean BERT and RoBERTa models and find that they are effective at offensiveness detection, target classification, and target span detection while having room for improvement for target group classification and offensive span detection. We discover that the target group distribution differs drastically from the existing English datasets, and observe that providing the context information improves the model performance in offensiveness detection (+0.3), target classification (+1.5), and target group classification (+13.1). We publicly release the dataset and baseline models.

了解文本中表达的态度，也称为姿态检测，在旨在在线检测虚假信息的系统中起重要作用，无论是错误信息（无意的假）或虚假信息（故意错误地蔓延，恶意意图）。姿态检测已经以不同的方式在文献中框架，包括（a）作为事实检查，谣言检测和检测先前的事实检查的权利要求，或（b）作为其自己的任务的组件;在这里，我们看看两者。虽然已经进行了与其他相关任务的突出姿态检测，但诸如论证挖掘和情绪分析之类的其他相关任务，但没有调查姿态检测和错误和缺陷检测之间的关系。在这里，我们的目标是弥合这个差距。特别是，我们在焦点中审查和分析了该领域的现有工作，焦点中的错误和不忠实，然后我们讨论了汲取的经验教训和未来的挑战。

Training dialogue systems often entails dealing with noisy training examples and unexpected user inputs. Despite their prevalence, there currently lacks an accurate survey of dialogue noise, nor is there a clear sense of the impact of each noise type on task performance. This paper addresses this gap by first constructing a taxonomy of noise encountered by dialogue systems. In addition, we run a series of experiments to show how different models behave when subjected to varying levels of noise and types of noise. Our results reveal that models are quite robust to label errors commonly tackled by existing denoising algorithms, but that performance suffers from dialogue-specific noise. Driven by these observations, we design a data cleaning algorithm specialized for conversational settings and apply it as a proof-of-concept for targeted dialogue denoising.

本次调查绘制了用于分析社交媒体数据的生成方法的研究状态的广泛的全景照片（Sota）。它填补了空白，因为现有的调查文章在其范围内或被约会。我们包括两个重要方面，目前正在挖掘和建模社交媒体的重要性：动态和网络。社会动态对于了解影响影响或疾病的传播，友谊的形成，友谊的形成等，另一方面，可以捕获各种复杂关系，提供额外的洞察力和识别否则将不会被注意的重要模式。

Natural Language Generation (NLG) has improved exponentially in recent years thanks to the development of sequence-to-sequence deep learning technologies such as Transformer-based language models. This advancement has led to more fluent and coherent NLG, leading to improved development in downstream tasks such as abstractive summarization, dialogue generation and data-to-text generation. However, it is also apparent that deep learning based generation is prone to hallucinate unintended text, which degrades the system performance and fails to meet user expectations in many real-world scenarios. To address this issue, many studies have been presented in measuring and mitigating hallucinated texts, but these have never been reviewed in a comprehensive manner before. In this survey, we thus provide a broad overview of the research progress and challenges in the hallucination problem in NLG. The survey is organized into two parts: (1) a general overview of metrics, mitigation methods, and future directions; and (2) an overview of task-specific research progress on hallucinations in the following downstream tasks, namely abstractive summarization, dialogue generation, generative question answering, data-to-text generation, machine translation, and visual-language generation. This survey serves to facilitate collaborative efforts among researchers in tackling the challenge of hallucinated texts in NLG.

社交媒体平台上的滥用内容的增长增加对在线用户的负面影响。对女同性恋，同性恋者，跨性别或双性恋者的恐惧，不喜欢，不适或不疑虑被定义为同性恋/转铁症。同性恋/翻译语音是一种令人反感的语言，可以总结为针对LGBT +人的仇恨语音，近年来越来越受到兴趣。在线同性恋恐惧症/ Transphobobia是一个严重的社会问题，可以使网上平台与LGBT +人有毒和不受欢迎，同时还试图消除平等，多样性和包容性。我们为在线同性恋和转鸟以及专家标记的数据集提供了新的分类分类，这将允许自动识别出具有同种异体/传递内容的数据集。我们受过教育的注释器并以综合的注释规则向他们提供，因为这是一个敏感的问题，我们以前发现未受训练的众包注释者因文化和其他偏见而诊断倡导性的群体。数据集包含15,141个注释的多语言评论。本文介绍了构建数据集，数据的定性分析和注册间协议的过程。此外，我们为数据集创建基线模型。据我们所知，我们的数据集是第一个已创建的数据集。警告：本文含有明确的同性恋，转基因症，刻板印象的明确陈述，这可能对某些读者令人痛苦。

The goal of building dialogue agents that can converse with humans naturally has been a long-standing dream of researchers since the early days of artificial intelligence. The well-known Turing Test proposed to judge the ultimate validity of an artificial intelligence agent on the indistinguishability of its dialogues from humans'. It should come as no surprise that human-level dialogue systems are very challenging to build. But, while early effort on rule-based systems found limited success, the emergence of deep learning enabled great advance on this topic. In this thesis, we focus on methods that address the numerous issues that have been imposing the gap between artificial conversational agents and human-level interlocutors. These methods were proposed and experimented with in ways that were inspired by general state-of-the-art AI methodologies. But they also targeted the characteristics that dialogue systems possess.

药物建议是智能医疗系统的关键任务。先前的研究主要建议使用电子健康记录（EHRS）药物。但是，在EHR中可能会忽略或忽略医生与患者之间的相互作用的一些细节，这对于自动药物建议至关重要。因此，我们首次尝试通过医生和患者之间的对话推荐药物。在这项工作中，我们构建了Dialmed，这是第一个用于基于医学对话的药物建议任务的高质量数据集。它包含与3个部门的16种常见疾病和70种相应常见药物有关的11,996次医疗对话。此外，我们提出了对话结构和疾病知识意识网络（DDN），其中QA对话图机制旨在模拟对话结构，并使用知识图来引入外部疾病知识。广泛的实验结果表明，所提出的方法是推荐与医疗对话的药物的有前途的解决方案。该数据集和代码可在https://github.com/f-window/dialmed上找到。