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most citedAthena: Constructing Dialogues Dynamically with Discourse Constraints

4 citations · 7 across the 4 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

cs.CL2021

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…

cs.CL20213 cited

Attention Is Indeed All You Need: Semantically Attention-Guided Decoding for Data-to-Text NLG

Juraj Juraska, Marilyn Walker

Ever since neural models were adopted in data-to-text language generation, they have invariably been reliant on extrinsic components to improve their semantic accuracy, because the…

cs.CL20204 cited

Athena: Constructing Dialogues Dynamically with Discourse Constraints

Vrindavan Harrison, Juraj Juraska, Wen Cui +11

This report describes Athena, a dialogue system for spoken conversation on popular topics and current events. We develop a flexible topic-agnostic approach to dialogue management t…

cs.CL2019

ViGGO: A Video Game Corpus for Data-To-Text Generation in Open-Domain Conversation

Juraj Juraska, Kevin K. Bowden, Marilyn Walker

The uptake of deep learning in natural language generation (NLG) led to the release of both small and relatively large parallel corpora for training neural models. The existing dat…

cs.CL2019

Entertaining and Opinionated but Too Controlling: A Large-Scale User Study of an Open Domain Alexa Prize System

Kevin K. Bowden, Jiaqi Wu, Wen Cui +6

Conversational systems typically focus on functional tasks such as scheduling appointments or creating todo lists. Instead we design and evaluate SlugBot (SB), one of 8 semifinalis…

cs.CL2019

SlugBot: Developing a Computational Model andFramework of a Novel Dialogue Genre

Kevin K. Bowden, Jiaqi Wu, Wen Cui +5

One of the most interesting aspects of the Amazon Alexa Prize competition is that the framing of the competition requires the development of new computational models of dialogue an…