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Topical-Chat: Towards Knowledge-Grounded Open-Domain Conversations
Karthik Gopalakrishnan, Behnam Hedayatnia, Qinlang Chen +5
Building socialbots that can have deep, engaging open-domain conversations with humans is one of the grand challenges of artificial intelligence (AI). To this end, bots need to be…
Beyond the Imitation Game: Quantifying and extrapolating the capabilities of language models
Aarohi Srivastava, Abhinav Rastogi, Abhishek Rao +448
Language models demonstrate both quantitative improvement and new qualitative capabilities with increasing scale. Despite their potentially transformative impact, these new capabil…
Alexa Conversations: An Extensible Data-driven Approach for Building Task-oriented Dialogue Systems
Anish Acharya, Suranjit Adhikari, Sanchit Agarwal +28
Traditional goal-oriented dialogue systems rely on various components such as natural language understanding, dialogue state tracking, policy learning and response generation. Trai…
Towards Coherent and Engaging Spoken Dialog Response Generation Using Automatic Conversation Evaluators
Sanghyun Yi, Rahul Goel, Chandra Khatri +6
Encoder-decoder based neural architectures serve as the basis of state-of-the-art approaches in end-to-end open domain dialog systems. Since most of such systems are trained with a…
Natural Language Generation at Scale: A Case Study for Open Domain Question Answering
Alessandra Cervone, Chandra Khatri, Rahul Goel +4
Current approaches to Natural Language Generation (NLG) for dialog mainly focus on domain-specific, task-oriented applications (e.g. restaurant booking) using limited ontologies (u…
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…