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20192021
most citedOpen-Domain Conversational Agents: Current Progress, Open Problems, and Future Directions

42 citations · 69 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

cs.CL20211 cited

Reason first, then respond: Modular Generation for Knowledge-infused Dialogue

Leonard Adolphs, Kurt Shuster, Jack Urbanek +2

Large language models can produce fluent dialogue but often hallucinate factual inaccuracies. While retrieval-augmented models help alleviate this issue, they still face a difficul…

cs.AI20208 cited

Deploying Lifelong Open-Domain Dialogue Learning

Kurt Shuster, Jack Urbanek, Emily Dinan +2

Much of NLP research has focused on crowdsourced static datasets and the supervised learning paradigm of training once and then evaluating test performance. As argued in de Vries e…

cs.CL202042 cited

Open-Domain Conversational Agents: Current Progress, Open Problems, and Future Directions

Stephen Roller, Y-Lan Boureau, Jason Weston +13

We present our view of what is necessary to build an engaging open-domain conversational agent: covering the qualities of such an agent, the pieces of the puzzle that have been bui…

cs.AI20208 cited

I love your chain mail! Making knights smile in a fantasy game world: Open-domain goal-oriented dialogue agents

Shrimai Prabhumoye, Margaret Li, Jack Urbanek +4

Dialogue research tends to distinguish between chit-chat and goal-oriented tasks. While the former is arguably more naturalistic and has a wider use of language, the latter has cle…

cs.AI20193 cited

Generating Interactive Worlds with Text

Angela Fan, Jack Urbanek, Pratik Ringshia +8

Procedurally generating cohesive and interesting game environments is challenging and time-consuming. In order for the relationships between the game elements to be natural, common…

cs.CL2019

Queens are Powerful too: Mitigating Gender Bias in Dialogue Generation

Emily Dinan, Angela Fan, Adina Williams +3

Models often easily learn biases present in the training data, and their predictions directly reflect this bias. We analyze gender bias in dialogue data, and examine how this bias…