Athena 2.0 is an Alexa Prize SocialBot that has been a finalist in the last two Alexa Prize Grand Challenges. One reason for Athena's success is its novel dialogue management strategy, which allows it to dynamically construct dialogues and responses from component modules, leading to novel conversations with every interaction. Here we describe Athena's system design and performance in the Alexa Prize during the 20/21 competition. A live demo of Athena as well as video recordings will provoke discussion on the state of the art in conversational AI.
@article{arxiv.2111.02519,
title = {Athena 2.0: Contextualized Dialogue Management for an Alexa Prize SocialBot},
author = {Juraj Juraska and Kevin K. Bowden and Lena Reed and Vrindavan Harrison and Wen Cui and Omkar Patil and Rishi Rajasekaran and Angela Ramirez and Cecilia Li and Eduardo Zamora and Phillip Lee and Jeshwanth Bheemanpally and Rohan Pandey and Adwait Ratnaparkhi and Marilyn Walker},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.02519},
year = {2021}
}