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most citedConversational AI: The Science Behind the Alexa Prize

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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.CL2018★ 6 cited

Detecting Offensive Content in Open-domain Conversations using Two Stage Semi-supervision

Chandra Khatri, Behnam Hedayatnia, Rahul Goel +3

As open-ended human-chatbot interaction becomes commonplace, sensitive content detection gains importance. In this work, we propose a two stage semi-supervised approach to bootstra…

cs.CL2018★ 2 cited

Contextual Topic Modeling For Dialog Systems

Chandra Khatri, Rahul Goel, Behnam Hedayatnia +4

Accurate prediction of conversation topics can be a valuable signal for creating coherent and engaging dialog systems. In this work, we focus on context-aware topic classification…

cs.CL2018★ 23 cited

Contextual Language Model Adaptation for Conversational Agents

Anirudh Raju, Behnam Hedayatnia, Linda Liu +5

Statistical language models (LM) play a key role in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems used by conversational agents. These ASR systems should provide a high accuracy under…

cs.CL2018★ 35 cited

Abstractive and Extractive Text Summarization using Document Context Vector and Recurrent Neural Networks

Chandra Khatri, Gyanit Singh, Nish Parikh

Sequence to sequence (Seq2Seq) learning has recently been used for abstractive and extractive summarization. In current study, Seq2Seq models have been used for eBay product descri…

cs.CL2018★ 7 cited

Real-time Road Traffic Information Detection Through Social Media

Chandra Khatri

In current study, a mechanism to extract traffic related information such as congestion and incidents from textual data from the internet is proposed. The current source of data is…