5 citations · 7 across the 2 of their papers we have counts for
2 papers
cs.CL2018★ 2 cited
Tartan: A retrieval-based socialbot powered by a dynamic finite-state machine architecture
George Larionov, Zachary Kaden, Hima Varsha Dureddy +5
This paper describes the Tartan conversational agent built for the 2018 Alexa Prize Competition. Tartan is a non-goal-oriented socialbot focused around providing users with an enga…
cs.IR2018★ 5 cited
Handling Cold-Start Collaborative Filtering with Reinforcement Learning
Hima Varsha Dureddy, Zachary Kaden
A major challenge in recommender systems is handling new users, whom are also called users. In this paper, we propose a novel approach for learning an optimal…