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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…
Data Augmentation for Robust Keyword Spotting under Playback Interference
Anirudh Raju, Sankaran Panchapagesan, Xing Liu +2
Accurate on-device keyword spotting (KWS) with low false accept and false reject rate is crucial to customer experience for far-field voice control of conversational agents. It is…