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most citedConversational AI: The Science Behind the Alexa Prize

200 citations · 276 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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5 papers

cs.HC2023★ 2 cited

Alexa, play with robot: Introducing the First Alexa Prize SimBot Challenge on Embodied AI

Hangjie Shi, Leslie Ball, Govind Thattai +39

The Alexa Prize program has empowered numerous university students to explore, experiment, and showcase their talents in building conversational agents through challenges like the…

cs.HC2023★ 3 cited

Alexa Arena: A User-Centric Interactive Platform for Embodied AI

Qiaozi Gao, Govind Thattai, Suhaila Shakiah +24

We introduce Alexa Arena, a user-centric simulation platform for Embodied AI (EAI) research. Alexa Arena provides a variety of multi-room layouts and interactable objects, for the…

cs.CL2022★ 10 cited

Alexa, Let's Work Together: Introducing the First Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge on Conversational Task Assistance

Anna Gottardi, Osman Ipek, Giuseppe Castellucci +27

Since its inception in 2016, the Alexa Prize program has enabled hundreds of university students to explore and compete to develop conversational agents through the SocialBot Grand…

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.AI2018★ 200 cited

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…