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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…
And That's A Fact: Distinguishing Factual and Emotional Argumentation in Online Dialogue
Shereen Oraby, Lena Reed, Ryan Compton +3
We investigate the characteristics of factual and emotional argumentation styles observed in online debates. Using an annotated set of "factual" and "feeling" debate forum posts, w…
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…