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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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02/25/2023
Dependency Dialogue Acts – Annotation Scheme and Case Study
In this paper, we introduce Dependency Dialogue Acts (DDA), a novel fram...
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02/09/2023
A Transformer-based Response Evaluator for Open-Domain Spoken Conversation
Many open-domain dialogue systems rely on multiple response generators, ...
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02/08/2023
Controlling Personality Style in Dialogue with Zero-Shot Prompt-Based Learning
Prompt-based or in-context learning has achieved high zero-shot performa...
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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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10/21/2021
Modeling Performance in Open-Domain Dialogue with PARADISE
There has recently been an explosion of work on spoken dialogue systems,...
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10/15/2021
Jurassic is (almost) All You Need: Few-Shot Meaning-to-Text Generation for Open-Domain Dialogue
One challenge with open-domain dialogue systems is the need to produce h...
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09/15/2021
Attention Is Indeed All You Need: Semantically Attention-Guided Decoding for Data-to-Text NLG
Ever since neural models were adopted in data-to-text language generatio...
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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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09/30/2020
Learning from Mistakes: Combining Ontologies via Self-Training for Dialogue Generation
Natural language generators (NLGs) for task-oriented dialogue typically ...
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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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07/22/2019
Maximizing Stylistic Control and Semantic Accuracy in NLG: Personality Variation and Discourse Contrast
Neural generation methods for task-oriented dialogue typically generate ...
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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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06/04/2019
Curate and Generate: A Corpus and Method for Joint Control of Semantics and Style in Neural NLG
Neural natural language generation (NNLG) from structured meaning repres...
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02/16/2019
CruzAffect at AffCon 2019 Shared Task: A feature-rich approach to characterize happiness
We present our system, CruzAffect, for the CL-Aff Shared Task 2019. Cruz...
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09/14/2018
Characterizing Variation in Crowd-Sourced Data for Training Neural Language Generators to Produce Stylistically Varied Outputs
One of the biggest challenges of end-to-end language generation from mea...
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09/09/2018
Can Neural Generators for Dialogue Learn Sentence Planning and Discourse Structuring?
Responses in task-oriented dialogue systems often realize multiple propo...
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09/07/2018
Neural Generation of Diverse Questions using Answer Focus, Contextual and Linguistic Features
Question Generation is the task of automatically creating questions from...
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09/05/2018
Neural MultiVoice Models for Expressing Novel Personalities in Dialog
Natural language generators for task-oriented dialog should be able to v...
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05/22/2018
Controlling Personality-Based Stylistic Variation with Neural Natural Language Generators
Natural language generators for task-oriented dialogue must effectively ...
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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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10/31/2017
Summarizing Dialogic Arguments from Social Media
Online argumentative dialog is a rich source of information on popular b...
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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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09/15/2017
Creating and Characterizing a Diverse Corpus of Sarcasm in Dialogue
The use of irony and sarcasm in social media allows us to study them at ...
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09/15/2017
Harvesting Creative Templates for Generating Stylistically Varied Restaurant Reviews
Many of the creative and figurative elements that make language exciting...
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09/15/2017
Are you serious?: Rhetorical Questions and Sarcasm in Social Media Dialog
Effective models of social dialog must understand a broad range of rheto...
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09/15/2017
And That's A Fact: Distinguishing Factual and Emotional Argumentation in Online Dialogue
We investigate the characteristics of factual and emotional argumentatio...
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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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09/03/2017
A Semi-Supervised Approach to Detecting Stance in Tweets
Stance classification aims to identify, for a particular issue under dis...
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09/03/2017
Using Summarization to Discover Argument Facets in Online Ideological Dialog
More and more of the information available on the web is dialogic, and a...
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09/03/2017
Topic Independent Identification of Agreement and Disagreement in Social Media Dialogue
Research on the structure of dialogue has been hampered for years becaus...
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08/31/2017
Linguistic Reflexes of Well-Being and Happiness in Echo
Different theories posit different sources for feelings of well-being an...
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08/31/2017
Learning Lexico-Functional Patterns for First-Person Affect
Informal first-person narratives are a unique resource for computational...
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08/30/2017
Argument Strength is in the Eye of the Beholder: Audience Effects in Persuasion
Americans spend about a third of their time online, with many participat...
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08/29/2017