55 citations · 64 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for
11 papers
Modeling Performance in Open-Domain Dialogue with PARADISE
Marilyn Walker, Colin Harmon, James Graupera +2
There has recently been an explosion of work on spoken dialogue systems, along with an increased interest in open-domain systems that engage in casual conversations on popular topi…
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…
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…
What Are You Hiding? Algorithmic Transparency and User Perceptions
Aaron Springer, Steve Whittaker
Extensive recent media focus has been directed towards the dark side of intelligent systems, how algorithms can influence society negatively. Often, transparency is proposed as a s…
Dice in the Black Box: User Experiences with an Inscrutable Algorithm
Aaron Springer, Victoria Hollis, Steve Whittaker
We demonstrate that users may be prone to place an inordinate amount of trust in black box algorithms that are framed as intelligent. We deploy an algorithm that purportedly assess…