6 papers
Practical Semantic Parsing for Spoken Language Understanding
Marco Damonte, Rahul Goel, Tagyoung Chung
Executable semantic parsing is the task of converting natural language utterances into logical forms that can be directly used as queries to get a response. We build a transfer lea…
Detecting Offensive Content in Open-domain Conversations using Two Stage Semi-supervision
Chandra Khatri, Behnam Hedayatnia, Rahul Goel +3
As open-ended human-chatbot interaction becomes commonplace, sensitive content detection gains importance. In this work, we propose a two stage semi-supervised approach to bootstra…
Parsing Coordination for Spoken Language Understanding
Sanchit Agarwal, Rahul Goel, Tagyoung Chung +3
Typical spoken language understanding systems provide narrow semantic parses using a domain-specific ontology. The parses contain intents and slots that are directly consumed by do…
Contextual Topic Modeling For Dialog Systems
Chandra Khatri, Rahul Goel, Behnam Hedayatnia +4
Accurate prediction of conversation topics can be a valuable signal for creating coherent and engaging dialog systems. In this work, we focus on context-aware topic classification…
Modelling Competitive marketing strategies in Social Networks
Rahul Goel, Anurag Singh, Fakhteh Ghanbarnejad
In a competitive marketing, there are a large number of players which produce the same product. Each firm aims to diffuse its product information widely so that it's product will b…
Estimating city-level travel patterns using street imagery: a case study of using Google Street View in Britain
Rahul Goel, Leandro M. T. Garcia, Anna Goodman +6
Street imagery is a promising big data source providing current and historical images in more than 100 countries. Previous studies used this data to audit built environment feature…