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Athena 2.0: Discourse and User Modeling in Open Domain Dialogue
Omkar Patil, Lena Reed, Kevin K. Bowden +12
Conversational agents are consistently growing in popularity and many people interact with them every day. While many conversational agents act as personal assistants, they can hav…
Controllable Generation of Dialogue Acts for Dialogue Systems via Few-Shot Response Generation and Ranking
Angela Ramirez, Karik Agarwal, Juraj Juraska +2
Dialogue systems need to produce responses that realize multiple types of dialogue acts (DAs) with high semantic fidelity. In the past, natural language generators (NLGs) for dialo…
Let's Get Personal: Personal Questions Improve SocialBot Performance in the Alexa Prize
Kevin K. Bowden, Marilyn Walker
There has been an increased focus on creating conversational open-domain dialogue systems in the spoken dialogue community. Unlike traditional dialogue systems, these conversationa…
Dependency Dialogue Acts -- Annotation Scheme and Case Study
Jon Z. Cai, Brendan King, Margaret Perkoff +9
In this paper, we introduce Dependency Dialogue Acts (DDA), a novel framework for capturing the structure of speaker-intentions in multi-party dialogues. DDA combines and adapts fe…
A Transformer-based Response Evaluator for Open-Domain Spoken Conversation
Vrindavan Harrison, Rishi Rajasekaran, Marilyn Walker
Many open-domain dialogue systems rely on multiple response generators, any of which can contribute a response to the dialogue in a particular context. Thus the ability to compare…
Controlling Personality Style in Dialogue with Zero-Shot Prompt-Based Learning
Angela Ramirez, Mamon Alsalihy, Kartik Aggarwal +3
Prompt-based or in-context learning has achieved high zero-shot performance on many natural language generation (NLG) tasks. Here we explore the performance of prompt-based learnin…