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most citedBuilding a Conversational Agent Overnight with Dialogue Self-Play

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cs.CL2018★ 61 cited

Advancing the State of the Art in Open Domain Dialog Systems through the Alexa Prize

Chandra Khatri, Behnam Hedayatnia, Anu Venkatesh +19

Building open domain conversational systems that allow users to have engaging conversations on topics of their choice is a challenging task. Alexa Prize was launched in 2016 to tac…

cs.LG2018★ 3 cited

Learning to Navigate the Web

Izzeddin Gur, Ulrich Rueckert, Aleksandra Faust +1

Learning in environments with large state and action spaces, and sparse rewards, can hinder a Reinforcement Learning (RL) agent's learning through trial-and-error. For instance, fo…

cs.AI2018

Flexible and Scalable State Tracking Framework for Goal-Oriented Dialogue Systems

Rahul Goel, Shachi Paul, Tagyoung Chung +3

Goal-oriented dialogue systems typically rely on components specifically developed for a single task or domain. This limits such systems in two different ways: If there is an updat…

cs.CL2018

Multi-task learning for Joint Language Understanding and Dialogue State Tracking

Abhinav Rastogi, Raghav Gupta, Dilek Hakkani-Tur

This paper presents a novel approach for multi-task learning of language understanding (LU) and dialogue state tracking (DST) in task-oriented dialogue systems. Multi-task training…

cs.CL2018

User Modeling for Task Oriented Dialogues

Izzeddin Gur, Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Gokhan Tur +1

We introduce end-to-end neural network based models for simulating users of task-oriented dialogue systems. User simulation in dialogue systems is crucial from two different perspe…

cs.CV2018

Resolving Referring Expressions in Images With Labeled Elements

Nevan Wichers, Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Jindong Chen

Images may have elements containing text and a bounding box associated with them, for example, text identified via optical character recognition on a computer screen image, or a na…