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Ericson: An Interactive Open-Domain Conversational Search Agent
Zihao Wang, Ali Ahmadvand, Jason Choi +2
Open-domain conversational search (ODCS) aims to provide valuable, up-to-date information, while maintaining natural conversations to help users refine and ultimately answer inform…
PREME: Preference-based Meeting Exploration through an Interactive Questionnaire
Negar Arabzadeh, Ali Ahmadvand, Julia Kiseleva +4
The recent increase in the volume of online meetings necessitates automated tools for managing and organizing the material, especially when an attendee has missed the discussion an…
Contextual Dialogue Act Classification for Open-Domain Conversational Agents
Ali Ahmadvand, Jason Ingyu Choi, Eugene Agichtein
Classifying the general intent of the user utterance in a conversation, also known as Dialogue Act (DA), e.g., open-ended question, statement of opinion, or request for an opinion,…
ConCET: Entity-Aware Topic Classification for Open-Domain Conversational Agents
Ali Ahmadvand, Harshita Sahijwani, Jason Ingyu Choi +1
Identifying the topic (domain) of each user's utterance in open-domain conversational systems is a crucial step for all subsequent language understanding and response tasks. In par…
ISS-MULT: Intelligent Sample Selection for Multi-Task Learning in Question Answering
Ali Ahmadvand, Jinho D. Choi
Transferring knowledge from a source domain to another domain is useful, especially when gathering new data is very expensive and time-consuming. Deep networks have been well-studi…