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Investigating Reinforcement Learning for Communication Strategies in a Task-Initiative Setting
Baber Khalid, Matthew Stone
Many conversational domains require the system to present nuanced information to users. Such systems must follow up what they say to address clarification questions and repair misu…
COSMic: A Coherence-Aware Generation Metric for Image Descriptions
Mert İnan, Piyush Sharma, Baber Khalid +3
Developers of text generation models rely on automated evaluation metrics as a stand-in for slow and expensive manual evaluations. However, image captioning metrics have struggled…
Discourse Coherence, Reference Grounding and Goal Oriented Dialogue
Baber Khalid, Malihe Alikhani, Michael Fellner +2
Prior approaches to realizing mixed-initiative human--computer referential communication have adopted information-state or collaborative problem-solving approaches. In this paper,…
That and There: Judging the Intent of Pointing Actions with Robotic Arms
Malihe Alikhani, Baber Khalid, Rahul Shome +3
Collaborative robotics requires effective communication between a robot and a human partner. This work proposes a set of interpretive principles for how a robotic arm can use point…