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most citedEntertaining and Opinionated but Too Controlling: A Large-Scale User Study of an Open Domain Alexa Prize System

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cs.CL2017★ 6 cited

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…

cs.CL2017

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…

cs.CL2017

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…

cs.CL2017

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…

cs.AI2017

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…