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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…
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…
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…