Language models have steadily increased in size over the past few years....
The DialPort project http://dialport.org/, funded by the National Scienc...
The ultimate goal of dialog research is to develop systems that can be
e...
To facilitate zero-shot generalization in taskoriented dialog, this pape...
Dialog system developers need high-quality data to train, fine-tune and
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Instruction tuning is an emergent paradigm in NLP wherein natural langua...
This is a report on the NSF Future Directions Workshop on Automatic
Eval...
Crowdsourcing requesters on Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT) have raised
que...
Developing mechanisms that flexibly adapt dialog systems to unseen tasks...
In transfer learning, it is imperative to achieve strong alignment betwe...
Automatic evaluation metrics are a crucial component of dialog systems
r...
This paper introduces the Ninth Dialog System Technology Challenge (DSTC...
It is important to define meaningful and interpretable automatic evaluat...
This USER Workshop was convened with the goal of defining future researc...
The lack of meaningful automatic evaluation metrics for dialog has imped...
This paper discusses the importance of uncovering uncertainty in end-to-...
Voice-based technologies are typically developed for the average user, a...
Neural models of dialog rely on generalized latent representations of
la...
The aim of this paper is to mitigate the shortcomings of automatic evalu...
Neural dialog models have exhibited strong performance, however their
en...
This paper examines various unsupervised pretraining objectives for lear...
Defining action spaces for conversational agents and optimizing their
de...
This paper makes the case that while most research on intelligent agents...
Dialog response ranking is used to rank response candidates by consideri...
Distracted driving is deadly, claiming 3,477 lives in the U.S. in 2015 a...
This paper introduces zero-shot dialog generation (ZSDG), as a step towa...
The encoder-decoder dialog model is one of the most prominent methods us...
Explainable recommendation is an important task. Many methods have been
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Generative encoder-decoder models offer great promise in developing
doma...
While recent neural encoder-decoder models have shown great promise in
m...
The problem of accurately predicting relative reading difficulty across ...
In this paper we propose a graph-community detection approach to identif...
This paper describes a new spoken dialog portal that connects systems
pr...
This paper presents an end-to-end framework for task-oriented dialog sys...
Readability is defined as the reading level of the speech from grade 1 t...