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Many businesses and consumers are extending the capabilities of voice-based services such as Amazon Alexa, Google Home, Microsoft Cortana, and Apple Siri to create custom voice experiences (also known as skills). As the number of these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-18 Maryam Fazel-Zarandi , Sampat Biswas , Ryan Summers , Ahmed Elmalt , Andy McCraw , Michael McPhilips , John Peach

One of the most interesting aspects of the Amazon Alexa Prize competition is that the framing of the competition requires the development of new computational models of dialogue and its structure. Traditional computational models of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-26 Kevin K. Bowden , Jiaqi Wu , Wen Cui , Juraj Juraska , Vrindavan Harrison , Brian Schwarzmann , Nick Santer , Marilyn Walker

In recent years, artificial intelligence has developed in a variety of fields and is now integrated into many aspects of our daily lives. This includes AI speakers,communication robots, and other interactive systems. We are interested in AI…

Computation · Statistics 2022-10-20 Goro Miyano , Kotaro Matsuo , Tomohiro , Kawatsu , Ibuki Unno , Kisumi Shibata , Mitsuki Fumoto

Traditional goal-oriented dialogue systems rely on various components such as natural language understanding, dialogue state tracking, policy learning and response generation. Training each component requires annotations which are hard to…

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…

We developed a dialogue system for Dialogue Robot Competition 2022. Our system is composed of three parts. First part investigates participants' demographic information by rule-based interview. Second part recommends a point of interest…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Yuuki Tachioka

We present Sounding Board, a social chatbot that won the 2017 Amazon Alexa Prize. The system architecture consists of several components including spoken language processing, dialogue management, language generation, and content management,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-04-30 Hao Fang , Hao Cheng , Maarten Sap , Elizabeth Clark , Ari Holtzman , Yejin Choi , Noah A. Smith , Mari Ostendorf

Conversational AI systems are becoming famous in day to day lives. In this paper, we are trying to address the following key question: To identify whether design, as well as development efforts for search oriented conversational AI are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-09-15 Mahipal Jadeja , Neelanshi Varia

We present TacoBot, a task-oriented dialogue system built for the inaugural Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge, which assists users in completing multi-step cooking and home improvement tasks. TacoBot is designed with a user-centered principle…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Shijie Chen , Ziru Chen , Xiang Deng , Ashley Lewis , Lingbo Mo , Samuel Stevens , Zhen Wang , Xiang Yue , Tianshu Zhang , Yu Su , Huan Sun

In this study, we develop a dialogue system for a dialogue robot competition. In the system, the characteristics of sightseeing spots are expressed as "attribute vectors" in advance, and the user is questioned on the different attributes of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Motoyuki Suzuki , Shintaro Sodeya , Taichi Nakamura

Conversational Intelligence requires that a person engage on informational, personal and relational levels. Advances in Natural Language Understanding have helped recent chatbots succeed at dialog on the informational level. However,…

We report on the design and development of the CASPR system, a socialbot designed to compete in the Amazon Alexa Socialbot Challenge 4. CASPR's distinguishing characteristic is that it will use automated commonsense reasoning to truly…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Kinjal Basu , Huaduo Wang , Nancy Dominguez , Xiangci Li , Fang Li , Sarat Chandra Varanasi , Gopal Gupta

The conversational agents is one of the most interested topics in computer science field in the recent decade. Which can be composite from more than one subject in this field, which you need to apply Natural Language Processing Concepts and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Moataz Mohammed , Mostafa M. Aref

Data scientists are constantly creating methods to efficiently and accurately populate big data sets for use in large-scale applications. Many recent efforts utilize crowd-sourcing and textual interfaces. In this paper, we propose a new…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Elena Montes , Monique Shotande , Daniel Helm , Christan Grant

This paper describes a personality-adaptive multimodal dialogue system developed for the Dialogue Robot Competition 2022. To realize a dialogue system that adapts the dialogue strategy to individual users, it is necessary to consider the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Tamotsu Miyama , Shogo Okada

Building an open-domain conversational agent is a challenging problem. Current evaluation methods, mostly post-hoc judgments of static conversation, do not capture conversation quality in a realistic interactive context. In this paper, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Asma Ghandeharioun , Judy Hanwen Shen , Natasha Jaques , Craig Ferguson , Noah Jones , Agata Lapedriza , Rosalind Picard

A personalized conversational sales agent could have much commercial potential. E-commerce companies such as Amazon, eBay, JD, Alibaba etc. are piloting such kind of agents with their users. However, the research on this topic is very…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-06-11 Yueming Sun , Yi Zhang

Conversational recommender systems offer the promise of interactive, engaging ways for users to find items they enjoy. We seek to improve conversational recommendation via three dimensions: 1) We aim to mimic a common mode of human…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Shuyang Li , Bodhisattwa Prasad Majumder , Julian McAuley

As conversational AI-based dialogue management has increasingly become a trending topic, the need for a standardized and reliable evaluation procedure grows even more pressing. The current state of affairs suggests various evaluation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-12 Sarah E. Finch , Jinho D. Choi

Building dialog agents that can converse naturally with humans is a challenging yet intriguing problem of artificial intelligence. In open-domain human-computer conversation, where the conversational agent is expected to respond to human…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Tom Young , Erik Cambria , Iti Chaturvedi , Minlie Huang , Hao Zhou , Subham Biswas