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Data-Efficient Goal-Oriented Conversation with Dialogue Knowledge Transfer Networks
Igor Shalyminov, Sungjin Lee, Arash Eshghi +1
Goal-oriented dialogue systems are now being widely adopted in industry where it is of key importance to maintain a rapid prototyping cycle for new products and domains. Data-drive…
Hierarchical Multi-Task Natural Language Understanding for Cross-domain Conversational AI: HERMIT NLU
Andrea Vanzo, Emanuele Bastianelli, Oliver Lemon
We present a new neural architecture for wide-coverage Natural Language Understanding in Spoken Dialogue Systems. We develop a hierarchical multi-task architecture, which delivers…
MuMMER: Socially Intelligent Human-Robot Interaction in Public Spaces
Mary Ellen Foster, Bart Craenen, Amol Deshmukh +27
In the EU-funded MuMMER project, we have developed a social robot designed to interact naturally and flexibly with users in public spaces such as a shopping mall. We present the la…
Petri Net Machines for Human-Agent Interaction
Christian Dondrup, Ioannis Papaioannou, Oliver Lemon
Smart speakers and robots become ever more prevalent in our daily lives. These agents are able to execute a wide range of tasks and actions and, therefore, need systems to control…
Few-Shot Dialogue Generation Without Annotated Data: A Transfer Learning Approach
Igor Shalyminov, Sungjin Lee, Arash Eshghi +1
Learning with minimal data is one of the key challenges in the development of practical, production-ready goal-oriented dialogue systems. In a real-world enterprise setting where d…