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Athena 2.0: Discourse and User Modeling in Open Domain Dialogue
Omkar Patil, Lena Reed, Kevin K. Bowden +12
Conversational agents are consistently growing in popularity and many people interact with them every day. While many conversational agents act as personal assistants, they can hav…
Athena 2.0: Contextualized Dialogue Management for an Alexa Prize SocialBot
Juraj Juraska, Kevin K. Bowden, Lena Reed +12
Athena 2.0 is an Alexa Prize SocialBot that has been a finalist in the last two Alexa Prize Grand Challenges. One reason for Athena's success is its novel dialogue management strat…
MBA: Mini-Batch AUC Optimization
San Gultekin, Avishek Saha, Adwait Ratnaparkhi +1
Area under the receiver operating characteristics curve (AUC) is an important metric for a wide range of signal processing and machine learning problems, and scalable methods for o…
Modeling informational novelty in a conversational system with a hybrid statistical and grammar-based approach to natural language generation
Adwait Ratnaparkhi
We present a hybrid statistical and grammar-based system for surface natural language generation (NLG) that uses grammar rules, conditions on using those grammar rules, and corpus…
Trainable Methods for Surface Natural Language Generation
Adwait Ratnaparkhi
We present three systems for surface natural language generation that are trainable from annotated corpora. The first two systems, called NLG1 and NLG2, require a corpus marked onl…
Statistical Models for Unsupervised Prepositional Phrase Attachment
Adwait Ratnaparkhi
We present several unsupervised statistical models for the prepositional phrase attachment task that approach the accuracy of the best supervised methods for this task. Our unsuper…