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Athena 2.0: Contextualized Dialogue Management for an Alexa Prize SocialBot
Juraj Juraska, Kevin K. Bowden, Lena Reed +12
Athena 2.0 is an Alexa Prize SocialBot that has been a finalist in the last two Alexa Prize Grand Challenges. One reason for Athena's success is its novel dialogue management strat…
Athena: Constructing Dialogues Dynamically with Discourse Constraints
Vrindavan Harrison, Juraj Juraska, Wen Cui +11
This report describes Athena, a dialogue system for spoken conversation on popular topics and current events. We develop a flexible topic-agnostic approach to dialogue management t…
ViGGO: A Video Game Corpus for Data-To-Text Generation in Open-Domain Conversation
Juraj Juraska, Kevin K. Bowden, Marilyn Walker
The uptake of deep learning in natural language generation (NLG) led to the release of both small and relatively large parallel corpora for training neural models. The existing dat…
Entertaining and Opinionated but Too Controlling: A Large-Scale User Study of an Open Domain Alexa Prize System
Kevin K. Bowden, Jiaqi Wu, Wen Cui +6
Conversational systems typically focus on functional tasks such as scheduling appointments or creating todo lists. Instead we design and evaluate SlugBot (SB), one of 8 semifinalis…
SlugBot: Developing a Computational Model andFramework of a Novel Dialogue Genre
Kevin K. Bowden, Jiaqi Wu, Wen Cui +5
One of the most interesting aspects of the Amazon Alexa Prize competition is that the framing of the competition requires the development of new computational models of dialogue an…
Implicit Discourse Relation Identification for Open-domain Dialogues
Mingyu Derek Ma, Kevin K. Bowden, Jiaqi Wu +2
Discourse relation identification has been an active area of research for many years, and the challenge of identifying implicit relations remains largely an unsolved task, especial…