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most citedOverview of the Ninth Dialog System Technology Challenge: DSTC9

37 citations · 141 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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26 papers

cs.CL202224 cited

Report from the NSF Future Directions Workshop on Automatic Evaluation of Dialog: Research Directions and Challenges

Shikib Mehri, Jinho Choi, Luis Fernando D'Haro +13

This is a report on the NSF Future Directions Workshop on Automatic Evaluation of Dialog. The workshop explored the current state of the art along with its limitations and suggeste…

cs.CL20211 cited

A Survey of NLP-Related Crowdsourcing HITs: what works and what does not

Jessica Huynh, Jeffrey Bigham, Maxine Eskenazi

Crowdsourcing requesters on Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT) have raised questions about the reliability of the workers. The AMT workforce is very diverse and it is not possible to mak…

cs.CL2021

A Comprehensive Assessment of Dialog Evaluation Metrics

Yi-Ting Yeh, Maxine Eskenazi, Shikib Mehri

Automatic evaluation metrics are a crucial component of dialog systems research. Standard language evaluation metrics are known to be ineffective for evaluating dialog. As such, re…

cs.CL2021

Schema-Guided Paradigm for Zero-Shot Dialog

Shikib Mehri, Maxine Eskenazi

Developing mechanisms that flexibly adapt dialog systems to unseen tasks and domains is a major challenge in dialog research. Neural models implicitly memorize task-specific dialog…

cs.CL20211 cited

GenSF: Simultaneous Adaptation of Generative Pre-trained Models and Slot Filling

Shikib Mehri, Maxine Eskenazi

In transfer learning, it is imperative to achieve strong alignment between a pre-trained model and a downstream task. Prior work has done this by proposing task-specific pre-traini…

cs.CL202037 cited

Overview of the Ninth Dialog System Technology Challenge: DSTC9

Chulaka Gunasekara, Seokhwan Kim, Luis Fernando D'Haro +36

This paper introduces the Ninth Dialog System Technology Challenge (DSTC-9). This edition of the DSTC focuses on applying end-to-end dialog technologies for four distinct tasks in…