Search Results for author: Boris Galitsky

Found 19 papers, 0 papers with code

On a Chatbot Navigating a User through a Concept-Based Knowledge Model

no code implementations EcomNLP (COLING) 2020 Boris Galitsky, Dmitry Ilvovsky, Elizaveta Goncharova

Information retrieval chatbots are widely used as assistants, to help users formulate their requirements about the products they want to purchase, and navigate to the set of items that satisfies their requirements in the best way.

Attribute Chatbot +4

Interrupt me Politely: Recommending Products and Services by Joining Human Conversation

no code implementations EcomNLP (COLING) 2020 Boris Galitsky, Dmitry Ilvovsky

We propose a novel way of conversational recommendation, where instead of asking questions to the user to acquire their preferences; the recommender tracks their conversation with other people, including customer support agents (CSA), and joins the conversation only when it is time to introduce a recommendation.

Dialogue Management Management

Correcting Texts Generated by Transformers using Discourse Features and Web Mining

no code implementations RANLP 2021 Alexander Chernyavskiy, Dmitry Ilvovsky, Boris Galitsky

We address both of these flaws: they are independent but can be combined to generate original texts that will be both consistent and truthful.

Controlling Chat Bot Multi-Document Navigation with the Extended Discourse Trees

no code implementations CLIB 2020 Dmitry Ilvovsky, Alexander Kirillovich, Boris Galitsky

We define extended discourse trees, introduce means to manipulate with them, and outline scenarios of multi-document navigation to extend the abilities of the interactive information retrieval-based chat bot.

Information Retrieval Retrieval

Two Discourse Tree - Based Approaches to Indexing Answers

no code implementations RANLP 2019 Boris Galitsky, Dmitry Ilvovsky

We explore anatomy of answers with respect to which text fragments from an answer are worth matching with a question and which should not be matched.

Anatomy Vocal Bursts Valence Prediction

On a Chatbot Providing Virtual Dialogues

no code implementations RANLP 2019 Boris Galitsky, Dmitry Ilvovsky, Elizaveta Goncharova

We present a chatbot that delivers content in the form of virtual dialogues automatically produced from the plain texts that are extracted and selected from the documents.

Chatbot

On a Chatbot Conducting Dialogue-in-Dialogue

no code implementations WS 2019 Boris Galitsky, Dmitry Ilvovsky, Elizaveta Goncharova

We demo a chatbot that delivers content in the form of virtual dialogues automatically produced from plain texts extracted and selected from documents.

Chatbot

Discourse-Based Approach to Involvement of Background Knowledge for Question Answering

no code implementations RANLP 2019 Boris Galitsky, Dmitry Ilvovsky

We introduce a concept of a virtual discourse tree to improve question answering (Q/A) recall for complex, multi-sentence questions.

Question Answering Sentence

Building Dialogue Structure from Discourse Tree of a Question

no code implementations WS 2018 Boris Galitsky, Dmitry Ilvovsky

In this section we propose a reasoning-based approach to a dialogue management for a customer support chat bot.

Dialogue Management Management +1

On a Chat Bot Finding Answers with Optimal Rhetoric Representation

no code implementations RANLP 2017 Boris Galitsky, Dmitry Ilvovsky

The system achieves rhetoric agreement by learning pairs of discourse trees (DTs) for question (Q) and answer (A).

Sentence valid

Chatbot with a Discourse Structure-Driven Dialogue Management

no code implementations EACL 2017 Boris Galitsky, Dmitry Ilvovsky

We then combine DTs for the paragraphs of documents to form what we call extended DT, which is a basis for interactive content exploration facilitated by the chat bot.

Chatbot Dialogue Management +2

A Tool for Efficient Content Compilation

no code implementations COLING 2016 Boris Galitsky

This tool imitates the process of essay writing by humans: searching for topics on the web, selecting content frag-ments from the found document, and then compiling these fragments to obtain a coherent text.

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