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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…
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…
CruzAffect at AffCon 2019 Shared Task: A feature-rich approach to characterize happiness
Jiaqi Wu, Ryan Compton, Geetanjali Rakshit +3
We present our system, CruzAffect, for the CL-Aff Shared Task 2019. CruzAffect consists of several types of robust and efficient models for affective classification tasks. We utili…
SlugNERDS: A Named Entity Recognition Tool for Open Domain Dialogue Systems
Kevin K. Bowden, Jiaqi Wu, Shereen Oraby +2
In dialogue systems, the tasks of named entity recognition (NER) and named entity linking (NEL) are vital preprocessing steps for understanding user intent, especially in open doma…
Slugbot: An Application of a Novel and Scalable Open Domain Socialbot Framework
Kevin K. Bowden, Jiaqi Wu, Shereen Oraby +2
In this paper we introduce a novel, open domain socialbot for the Amazon Alexa Prize competition, aimed at carrying on friendly conversations with users on a variety of topics. We…
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…
Linguistic Reflexes of Well-Being and Happiness in Echo
Jiaqi Wu, Marilyn Walker, Pranav Anand +1
Different theories posit different sources for feelings of well-being and happiness. Appraisal theory grounds our emotional responses in our goals and desires and their fulfillment…
Learning Lexico-Functional Patterns for First-Person Affect
Lena Reed, Jiaqi Wu, Shereen Oraby +2
Informal first-person narratives are a unique resource for computational models of everyday events and people's affective reactions to them. People blogging about their day tend no…
Modelling Protagonist Goals and Desires in First-Person Narrative
Elahe Rahimtoroghi, Jiaqi Wu, Ruimin Wang +2
Many genres of natural language text are narratively structured, a testament to our predilection for organizing our experiences as narratives. There is broad consensus that underst…