Publications (10)
We are what we repeatedly do: Inducing and deploying habitual schemas in persona-based responses
Benjamin Kane, Lenhart Schubert
Many practical applications of dialogue technology require the generation of responses according to a particular developer-specified persona. While a variety of personas can be eli…
Get the gist? Using large language models for few-shot decontextualization
Benjamin Kane, Lenhart Schubert
In many NLP applications that involve interpreting sentences within a rich context -- for instance, information retrieval systems or dialogue systems -- it is desirable to be able…
Dialogue Design and Management for Multi-Session Casual Conversation with Older Adults
S. Zahra Razavi, Lenhart K. Schubert, Benjamin Kane +3
We address the problem of designing a conversational avatar capable of a sequence of casual conversations with older adults. Users at risk of loneliness, social anxiety or a sense…
Novel Computational Linguistic Measures, Dialogue System and the Development of SOPHIE: Standardized Online Patient for Healthcare Interaction Education
Mohammad Rafayet Ali, Taylan Sen, Benjamin Kane +5
In this paper, we describe the iterative participatory design of SOPHIE, an online virtual patient for feedback-based practice of sensitive patient-physician conversations, and dis…
A Virtual Conversational Agent for Teens with Autism: Experimental Results and Design Lessons
Mohammad Rafayet Ali, Zahra Razavi, Abdullah Al Mamun +5
We present the design of an online social skills development interface for teenagers with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The interface is intended to enable private conversation p…
A Spoken Dialogue System for Spatial Question Answering in a Physical Blocks World
Georgiy Platonov, Benjamin Kane, Aaron Gindi +1
The blocks world is a classic toy domain that has long been used to build and test spatial reasoning systems. Despite its relative simplicity, tackling this domain in its full comp…