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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…