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20182021
most citedAdvancing the State of the Art in Open Domain Dialog Systems through the Alexa Prize

61 citations · 122 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

cs.CL20212 cited

"How Robust r u?": Evaluating Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems on Spoken Conversations

Seokhwan Kim, Yang Liu, Di Jin +4

Most prior work in dialogue modeling has been on written conversations mostly because of existing data sets. However, written dialogues are not sufficient to fully capture the natu…

cs.CL20211 cited

Commonsense-Focused Dialogues for Response Generation: An Empirical Study

Pei Zhou, Karthik Gopalakrishnan, Behnam Hedayatnia +5

Smooth and effective communication requires the ability to perform latent or explicit commonsense inference. Prior commonsense reasoning benchmarks (such as SocialIQA and Commonsen…

cs.CL20211 cited

Generative Conversational Networks

Alexandros Papangelis, Karthik Gopalakrishnan, Aishwarya Padmakumar +3

Inspired by recent work in meta-learning and generative teaching networks, we propose a framework called Generative Conversational Networks, in which conversational agents learn to…

cs.CL2021

Go Beyond Plain Fine-tuning: Improving Pretrained Models for Social Commonsense

Ting-Yun Chang, Yang Liu, Karthik Gopalakrishnan +3

Pretrained language models have demonstrated outstanding performance in many NLP tasks recently. However, their social intelligence, which requires commonsense reasoning about the…

cs.CL2021

Incorporating Commonsense Knowledge Graph in Pretrained Models for Social Commonsense Tasks

Ting-Yun Chang, Yang Liu, Karthik Gopalakrishnan +3

Pretrained language models have excelled at many NLP tasks recently; however, their social intelligence is still unsatisfactory. To enable this, machines need to have a more genera…

cs.CL20219 cited

Beyond Domain APIs: Task-oriented Conversational Modeling with Unstructured Knowledge Access Track in DSTC9

Seokhwan Kim, Mihail Eric, Behnam Hedayatnia +4

Most prior work on task-oriented dialogue systems are restricted to a limited coverage of domain APIs, while users oftentimes have domain related requests that are not covered by t…