4 papers
Alexa, Let's Work Together: Introducing the First Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge on Conversational Task Assistance
Anna Gottardi, Osman Ipek, Giuseppe Castellucci +27
Since its inception in 2016, the Alexa Prize program has enabled hundreds of university students to explore and compete to develop conversational agents through the SocialBot Grand…
"Alexa, what do you do for fun?" Characterizing playful requests with virtual assistants
Chen Shani, Alexander Libov, Sofia Tolmach +3
Virtual assistants such as Amazon's Alexa, Apple's Siri, Google Home, and Microsoft's Cortana, are becoming ubiquitous in our daily lives and successfully help users in various dai…
Leveraging Crowdsourcing Data For Deep Active Learning - An Application: Learning Intents in Alexa
Jie Yang, Thomas Drake, Andreas Damianou +1
This paper presents a generic Bayesian framework that enables any deep learning model to actively learn from targeted crowds. Our framework inherits from recent advances in Bayesia…
How Many Folders Do You Really Need?
Mihajlo Grbovic, Guy Halawi, Zohar Karnin +1
Email classification is still a mostly manual task. Consequently, most Web mail users never define a single folder. Recently however, automatic classification offering the same cat…