4 papers
Improving Human-Labeled Data through Dynamic Automatic Conflict Resolution
David Q. Sun, Hadas Kotek, Christopher Klein +3
This paper develops and implements a scalable methodology for (a) estimating the noisiness of labels produced by a typical crowdsourcing semantic annotation task, and (b) reducing…
Generating Natural Questions from Images for Multimodal Assistants
Alkesh Patel, Akanksha Bindal, Hadas Kotek +2
Generating natural, diverse, and meaningful questions from images is an essential task for multimodal assistants as it confirms whether they have understood the object and scene in…
Lattice-based Improvements for Voice Triggering Using Graph Neural Networks
Pranay Dighe, Saurabh Adya, Nuoyu Li +6
Voice-triggered smart assistants often rely on detection of a trigger-phrase before they start listening for the user request. Mitigation of false triggers is an important aspect o…
Leveraging User Engagement Signals For Entity Labeling in a Virtual Assistant
Deepak Muralidharan, Justine Kao, Xiao Yang +8
Personal assistant AI systems such as Siri, Cortana, and Alexa have become widely used as a means to accomplish tasks through natural language commands. However, components in thes…