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20202022
most citedOverview of the Ninth Dialog System Technology Challenge: DSTC9

37 citations · 63 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

cs.CL20223 cited

What is wrong with you?: Leveraging User Sentiment for Automatic Dialog Evaluation

Sarik Ghazarian, Behnam Hedayatnia, Alexandros Papangelis +2

Accurate automatic evaluation metrics for open-domain dialogs are in high demand. Existing model-based metrics for system response evaluation are trained on human annotated data, w…

cs.CL2022

Towards Textual Out-of-Domain Detection without In-Domain Labels

Di Jin, Shuyang Gao, Seokhwan Kim +2

In many real-world settings, machine learning models need to identify user inputs that are out-of-domain (OOD) so as to avoid performing wrong actions. This work focuses on a chall…

cs.CL2021

DirectQuote: A Dataset for Direct Quotation Extraction and Attribution in News Articles

Yuanchi Zhang, Yang Liu

Quotation extraction and attribution are challenging tasks, aiming at determining the spans containing quotations and attributing each quotation to the original speaker. Applying t…

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.CL2021

Towards Zero and Few-shot Knowledge-seeking Turn Detection in Task-orientated Dialogue Systems

Di Jin, Shuyang Gao, Seokhwan Kim +2

Most prior work on task-oriented dialogue systems is restricted to supporting domain APIs. However, users may have requests that are out of the scope of these APIs. This work focus…