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most citedCrowdsourcing Control: Moving Beyond Multiple Choice

34 citations · 78 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

cs.CL2021★ 2 cited

Constrained Language Models Yield Few-Shot Semantic Parsers

Richard Shin, Christopher H. Lin, Sam Thomson +7

We explore the use of large pretrained language models as few-shot semantic parsers. The goal in semantic parsing is to generate a structured meaning representation given a natural…

cs.CL2020★ 20 cited

Task-Oriented Dialogue as Dataflow Synthesis

Semantic Machines, Jacob Andreas, John Bufe +43

We describe an approach to task-oriented dialogue in which dialogue state is represented as a dataflow graph. A dialogue agent maps each user utterance to a program that extends th…

cs.IR2019★ 16 cited

Characterizing and Predicting Email Deferral Behavior

Bahareh Sarrafzadeh, Ahmed Hassan Awadallah, Christopher H. Lin +3

Email triage involves going through unhandled emails and deciding what to do with them. This familiar process can become increasingly challenging as the number of unhandled email g…

cs.AI2016

A Programming Language With a POMDP Inside

Christopher H. Lin, Mausam, Daniel S. Weld

We present POAPS, a novel planning system for defining Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDPs) that abstracts away from POMDP details for the benefit of non-expert…

cs.AI2015★ 6 cited

Metareasoning for Planning Under Uncertainty

Christopher H. Lin, Andrey Kolobov, Ece Kamar +1

The conventional model for online planning under uncertainty assumes that an agent can stop and plan without incurring costs for the time spent planning. However, planning time is…

cs.AI2012★ 34 cited

Crowdsourcing Control: Moving Beyond Multiple Choice

Christopher H. Lin, Mausam, Daniel Weld

To ensure quality results from crowdsourced tasks, requesters often aggregate worker responses and use one of a plethora of strategies to infer the correct answer from the set of n…