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Contextual Dialogue Act Classification for Open-Domain Conversational Agents
Ali Ahmadvand, Jason Ingyu Choi, Eugene Agichtein
Classifying the general intent of the user utterance in a conversation, also known as Dialogue Act (DA), e.g., open-ended question, statement of opinion, or request for an opinion,…
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…
Domain-Guided Task Decomposition with Self-Training for Detecting Personal Events in Social Media
Payam Karisani, Joyce C. Ho, Eugene Agichtein
Mining social media content for tasks such as detecting personal experiences or events, suffer from lexical sparsity, insufficient training data, and inventive lexicons. To reduce…