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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 Hear the News? Investigating Voice-BasedSuggestions for Conversational News Recommendation
Harshita Sahijwani, Jason Ingyu Choi, Eugene Agichtein
One of the key benefits of voice-based personal assistants is the potential to proactively recommend relevant and interesting information. One of the most valuable sources of such…
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…