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20182020
most citedBenchmarking Natural Language Understanding Services for building Conversational Agents

89 citations · 115 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

cs.HC2020★ 2 cited

CRWIZ: A Framework for Crowdsourcing Real-Time Wizard-of-Oz Dialogues

Francisco J. Chiyah Garcia, José Lopes, Xingkun Liu +1

Large corpora of task-based and open-domain conversational dialogues are hugely valuable in the field of data-driven dialogue systems. Crowdsourcing platforms, such as Amazon Mecha…

cs.CL2019

User Evaluation of a Multi-dimensional Statistical Dialogue System

Simon Keizer, Ondřej Dušek, Xingkun Liu +1

We present the first complete spoken dialogue system driven by a multi-dimensional statistical dialogue manager. This framework has been shown to substantially reduce data needs by…

cs.RO2019★ 6 cited

Challenges in Collaborative HRI for Remote Robot Teams

Helen Hastie, David A. Robb, José Lopes +6

Collaboration between human supervisors and remote teams of robots is highly challenging, particularly in high-stakes, distant, hazardous locations, such as off-shore energy platfo…

cs.CL2019★ 89 cited

Benchmarking Natural Language Understanding Services for building Conversational Agents

Xingkun Liu, Arash Eshghi, Pawel Swietojanski +1

We have recently seen the emergence of several publicly available Natural Language Understanding (NLU) toolkits, which map user utterances to structured, but more abstract, Dialogu…

cs.HC2018

A Natural Language Interface with Relayed Acoustic Communications for Improved Command and Control of AUVs

David A. Robb, Jonatan Scharff Willners, Nicolas Valeyrie +6

Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) are being tasked with increasingly complex missions. The acoustic communications required for AUVs are, by the nature of the medium, low bandw…

cs.CL2018★ 18 cited

Explain Yourself: A Natural Language Interface for Scrutable Autonomous Robots

Francisco J. Chiyah Garcia, David A. Robb, Xingkun Liu +3

Autonomous systems in remote locations have a high degree of autonomy and there is a need to explain what they are doing and why in order to increase transparency and maintain trus…