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Designing and Evaluating a Conversational Agent for Early Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias
Andrew G. Breithaupt, Nayoung Choi, James D. Finch +5
Early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD) is critical for timely intervention, yet most diagnoses are delayed until advanced stages. While comprehensive p…
Generative Induction of Dialogue Task Schemas with Streaming Refinement and Simulated Interactions
James D. Finch, Yasasvi Josyula, Jinho D. Choi
In task-oriented dialogue (TOD) systems, Slot Schema Induction (SSI) is essential for automatically identifying key information slots from dialogue data without manual intervention…
Transforming Slot Schema Induction with Generative Dialogue State Inference
James D. Finch, Boxin Zhao, Jinho D. Choi
The challenge of defining a slot schema to represent the state of a task-oriented dialogue system is addressed by Slot Schema Induction (SSI), which aims to automatically induce sl…
Diverse and Effective Synthetic Data Generation for Adaptable Zero-Shot Dialogue State Tracking
James D. Finch, Jinho D. Choi
We demonstrate substantial performance gains in zero-shot dialogue state tracking (DST) by enhancing training data diversity through synthetic data generation. Existing DST dataset…
Exploring the Impact of Human Evaluator Group on Chat-Oriented Dialogue Evaluation
Sarah E. Finch, James D. Finch, Jinho D. Choi
Human evaluation has been widely accepted as the standard for evaluating chat-oriented dialogue systems. However, there is a significant variation in previous work regarding who ge…
Don't Forget Your ABC's: Evaluating the State-of-the-Art in Chat-Oriented Dialogue Systems
Sarah E. Finch, James D. Finch, Jinho D. Choi
Despite tremendous advancements in dialogue systems, stable evaluation still requires human judgments producing notoriously high-variance metrics due to their inherent subjectivity…
What Went Wrong? Explaining Overall Dialogue Quality through Utterance-Level Impacts
James D. Finch, Sarah E. Finch, Jinho D. Choi
Improving user experience of a dialogue system often requires intensive developer effort to read conversation logs, run statistical analyses, and intuit the relative importance of…
An Approach to Inference-Driven Dialogue Management within a Social Chatbot
Sarah E. Finch, James D. Finch, Daniil Huryn +4
We present a chatbot implementing a novel dialogue management approach based on logical inference. Instead of framing conversation a sequence of response generation tasks, we model…
Emora: An Inquisitive Social Chatbot Who Cares For You
Sarah E. Finch, James D. Finch, Ali Ahmadvand +9
Inspired by studies on the overwhelming presence of experience-sharing in human-human conversations, Emora, the social chatbot developed by Emory University, aims to bring such exp…
Emora STDM: A Versatile Framework for Innovative Dialogue System Development
James D. Finch, Jinho D. Choi
This demo paper presents Emora STDM (State Transition Dialogue Manager), a dialogue system development framework that provides novel workflows for rapid prototyping of chat-based d…