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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…
Would you Like to Talk about Sports Now? Towards Contextual Topic Suggestion for Open-Domain Conversational Agents
Ali Ahmadvand, Harshita Sahijwani, Eugene Agichtein
To hold a true conversation, an intelligent agent should be able to occasionally take initiative and recommend the next natural conversation topic. This is a challenging task. A to…
ConCET: Entity-Aware Topic Classification for Open-Domain Conversational Agents
Ali Ahmadvand, Harshita Sahijwani, Jason Ingyu Choi +1
Identifying the topic (domain) of each user's utterance in open-domain conversational systems is a crucial step for all subsequent language understanding and response tasks. In par…