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Filling Conversation Ellipsis for Better Social Dialog Understanding
Xiyuan Zhang, Chengxi Li, Dian Yu +2
The phenomenon of ellipsis is prevalent in social conversations. Ellipsis increases the difficulty of a series of downstream language understanding tasks, such as dialog act predic…
Gunrock: A Social Bot for Complex and Engaging Long Conversations
Dian Yu, Michelle Cohn, Yi Mang Yang +12
Gunrock is the winner of the 2018 Amazon Alexa Prize, as evaluated by coherence and engagement from both real users and Amazon-selected expert conversationalists. We focus on under…
Dependency Parsing for Spoken Dialog Systems
Sam Davidson, Dian Yu, Zhou Yu
Dependency parsing of conversational input can play an important role in language understanding for dialog systems by identifying the relationships between entities extracted from…
MIDAS: A Dialog Act Annotation Scheme for Open Domain Human Machine Spoken Conversations
Dian Yu, Zhou Yu
Dialog act prediction is an essential language comprehension task for both dialog system building and discourse analysis. Previous dialog act schemes, such as SWBD-DAMSL, are desig…