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SUMMARY:PhD Final Oral Exam: Miaoran Li
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DESCRIPTION:From Conversational Adaptability to Response Reliability: Advan
 cing Flexible and Trustworthy Conversational AIThis work advances conversa
 tional AI by improving both adaptability and reliability. The first part f
 ocuses on enhancing dialogue flexibility by unifying tasks that are tradit
 ionally treated separately\, including task-oriented dialogue\, question a
 nswering\, and open-domain conversation. One line of work integrates struc
 tured task completion with retrieval-augmented question answering to suppo
 rt more informed and context aware responses. Another system enables smoot
 h transitions between task-based interactions and open-ended dialogue\, al
 lowing for more natural and dynamic user experiences.\n\nMore information 
 at: https://www.cs.iastate.edu/event/2025/phd-final-oral-exam-miaoran-li\n
 \nJoin on Zoom: https://iastate.zoom.us/j/96200278895
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