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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…
Conversational AI: The Science Behind the Alexa Prize
Ashwin Ram, Rohit Prasad, Chandra Khatri +15
Conversational agents are exploding in popularity. However, much work remains in the area of social conversation as well as free-form conversation over a broad range of domains and…
On Evaluating and Comparing Open Domain Dialog Systems
Anu Venkatesh, Chandra Khatri, Ashwin Ram +10
Conversational agents are exploding in popularity. However, much work remains in the area of non goal-oriented conversations, despite significant growth in research interest over r…