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Alexa Conversations: An Extensible Data-driven Approach for Building Task-oriented Dialogue Systems
Anish Acharya, Suranjit Adhikari, Sanchit Agarwal +28
Traditional goal-oriented dialogue systems rely on various components such as natural language understanding, dialogue state tracking, policy learning and response generation. Trai…
Advancing the State of the Art in Open Domain Dialog Systems through the Alexa Prize
Chandra Khatri, Behnam Hedayatnia, Anu Venkatesh +19
Building open domain conversational systems that allow users to have engaging conversations on topics of their choice is a challenging task. Alexa Prize was launched in 2016 to tac…
Detecting Offensive Content in Open-domain Conversations using Two Stage Semi-supervision
Chandra Khatri, Behnam Hedayatnia, Rahul Goel +3
As open-ended human-chatbot interaction becomes commonplace, sensitive content detection gains importance. In this work, we propose a two stage semi-supervised approach to bootstra…
Flexible and Scalable State Tracking Framework for Goal-Oriented Dialogue Systems
Rahul Goel, Shachi Paul, Tagyoung Chung +3
Goal-oriented dialogue systems typically rely on components specifically developed for a single task or domain. This limits such systems in two different ways: If there is an updat…
Parsing Coordination for Spoken Language Understanding
Sanchit Agarwal, Rahul Goel, Tagyoung Chung +3
Typical spoken language understanding systems provide narrow semantic parses using a domain-specific ontology. The parses contain intents and slots that are directly consumed by do…
Contextual Topic Modeling For Dialog Systems
Chandra Khatri, Rahul Goel, Behnam Hedayatnia +4
Accurate prediction of conversation topics can be a valuable signal for creating coherent and engaging dialog systems. In this work, we focus on context-aware topic classification…