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08/03/2023
Athena 2.0: Discourse and User Modeling in Open Domain Dialogue
Conversational agents are consistently growing in popularity and many pe...
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03/09/2023
Let's Get Personal: Personal Questions Improve SocialBot Performance in the Alexa Prize
There has been an increased focus on creating conversational open-domain...
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11/03/2021
Athena 2.0: Contextualized Dialogue Management for an Alexa Prize SocialBot
Athena 2.0 is an Alexa Prize SocialBot that has been a finalist in the l...
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11/21/2020
Athena: Constructing Dialogues Dynamically with Discourse Constraints
This report describes Athena, a dialogue system for spoken conversation ...
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10/26/2019
ViGGO: A Video Game Corpus for Data-To-Text Generation in Open-Domain Conversation
The uptake of deep learning in natural language generation (NLG) led to ...
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08/13/2019
Entertaining and Opinionated but Too Controlling: A Large-Scale User Study of an Open Domain Alexa Prize System
Conversational systems typically focus on functional tasks such as sched...
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07/22/2019
SlugBot: Developing a Computational Model andFramework of a Novel Dialogue Genre
One of the most interesting aspects of the Amazon Alexa Prize competitio...
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07/09/2019
Implicit Discourse Relation Identification for Open-domain Dialogues
Discourse relation identification has been an active area of research fo...
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05/16/2018
A Deep Ensemble Model with Slot Alignment for Sequence-to-Sequence Natural Language Generation
Natural language generation lies at the core of generative dialogue syst...
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05/10/2018
SlugNERDS: A Named Entity Recognition Tool for Open Domain Dialogue Systems
In dialogue systems, the tasks of named entity recognition (NER) and nam...
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01/04/2018
Slugbot: An Application of a Novel and Scalable Open Domain Socialbot Framework
In this paper we introduce a novel, open domain socialbot for the Amazon...
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09/15/2017
Combining Search with Structured Data to Create a More Engaging User Experience in Open Domain Dialogue
The greatest challenges in building sophisticated open-domain conversati...
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09/10/2017
Data-Driven Dialogue Systems for Social Agents
In order to build dialogue systems to tackle the ambitious task of holdi...
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09/10/2017
Debbie, the Debate Bot of the Future
Chatbots are a rapidly expanding application of dialogue systems with co...
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08/24/2017
M2D: Monolog to Dialog Generation for Conversational Story Telling
Storytelling serves many different social functions, e.g. stories are us...
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05/18/2017