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Can Neural Generators for Dialogue Learn Sentence Planning and Discourse Structuring?
Lena Reed, Shereen Oraby, Marilyn Walker
Responses in task-oriented dialogue systems often realize multiple propositions whose ultimate form depends on the use of sentence planning and discourse structuring operations. Fo…
Neural MultiVoice Models for Expressing Novel Personalities in Dialog
Shereen Oraby, Lena Reed, Sharath TS +2
Natural language generators for task-oriented dialog should be able to vary the style of the output utterance while still effectively realizing the system dialog actions and their…
Controlling Personality-Based Stylistic Variation with Neural Natural Language Generators
Shereen Oraby, Lena Reed, Shubhangi Tandon +3
Natural language generators for task-oriented dialogue must effectively realize system dialogue actions and their associated semantics. In many applications, it is also desirable f…
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…
Exploring Conversational Language Generation for Rich Content about Hotels
Marilyn A. Walker, Albry Smither, Shereen Oraby +2
Dialogue systems for hotel and tourist information have typically simplified the richness of the domain, focusing system utterances on only a few selected attributes such as price,…
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…