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20182020
most citedOpen-Domain Conversational Agents: Current Progress, Open Problems, and Future Directions

42 citations · 50 across the 2 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

cs.CL2020

Recipes for Safety in Open-domain Chatbots

Jing Xu, Da Ju, Margaret Li +3

Models trained on large unlabeled corpora of human interactions will learn patterns and mimic behaviors therein, which include offensive or otherwise toxic behavior and unwanted bi…

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.CL2019

Don't Say That! Making Inconsistent Dialogue Unlikely with Unlikelihood Training

Margaret Li, Stephen Roller, Ilia Kulikov +4

Generative dialogue models currently suffer from a number of problems which standard maximum likelihood training does not address. They tend to produce generations that (i) rely to…

cs.CL2019

ACUTE-EVAL: Improved Dialogue Evaluation with Optimized Questions and Multi-turn Comparisons

Margaret Li, Jason Weston, Stephen Roller

While dialogue remains an important end-goal of natural language research, the difficulty of evaluation is an oft-quoted reason why it remains troublesome to make real progress tow…

cs.CL2018

Towards Empathetic Open-domain Conversation Models: a New Benchmark and Dataset

Hannah Rashkin, Eric Michael Smith, Margaret Li +1

One challenge for dialogue agents is recognizing feelings in the conversation partner and replying accordingly, a key communicative skill. While it is straightforward for humans to…