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Combining Search with Structured Data to Create a More Engaging User Experience in Open Domain Dialogue
Kevin K. Bowden, Shereen Oraby, Jiaqi Wu +2
The greatest challenges in building sophisticated open-domain conversational agents arise directly from the potential for ongoing mixed-initiative multi-turn dialogues, which do no…
Data-Driven Dialogue Systems for Social Agents
Kevin K. Bowden, Shereen Oraby, Amita Misra +2
In order to build dialogue systems to tackle the ambitious task of holding social conversations, we argue that we need a data driven approach that includes insight into human conve…
Debbie, the Debate Bot of the Future
Geetanjali Rakshit, Kevin K. Bowden, Lena Reed +2
Chatbots are a rapidly expanding application of dialogue systems with companies switching to bot services for customer support, and new applications for users interested in casual…
PersonaBank: A Corpus of Personal Narratives and Their Story Intention Graphs
Stephanie M. Lukin, Kevin Bowden, Casey Barackman +1
We present a new corpus, PersonaBank, consisting of 108 personal stories from weblogs that have been annotated with their Story Intention Graphs, a deep representation of the fabul…
M2D: Monolog to Dialog Generation for Conversational Story Telling
Kevin K. Bowden, Grace I. Lin, Lena I. Reed +1
Storytelling serves many different social functions, e.g. stories are used to persuade, share troubles, establish shared values, learn social behaviors, and entertain. Moreover, st…
I Probe, Therefore I Am: Designing a Virtual Journalist with Human Emotions
Kevin K. Bowden, Tommy Nilsson, Christine P. Spencer +3
By utilizing different communication channels, such as verbal language, gestures or facial expressions, virtually embodied interactive humans hold a unique potential to bridge the…