Athena: Constructing Dialogues Dynamically with Discourse Constraints

no code implementations • 21 Nov 2020 • Vrindavan Harrison, Juraj Juraska, Wen Cui, Lena Reed, Kevin K. Bowden, Jiaqi Wu, Brian Schwarzmann, Abteen Ebrahimi, Rishi Rajasekaran, Nikhil Varghese, Max Wechsler-Azen, Steve Whittaker, Jeffrey Flanigan, Marilyn Walker

This report describes Athena, a dialogue system for spoken conversation on popular topics and current events.

Dialogue Management Management +1

Entertaining and Opinionated but Too Controlling: A Large-Scale User Study of an Open Domain Alexa Prize System

no code implementations • 13 Aug 2019 • Kevin K. Bowden, Jiaqi Wu, Wen Cui, Juraj Juraska, Vrindavan Harrison, Brian Schwarzmann, Nicholas Santer, Steve Whittaker, Marilyn Walker

In contrast, search and general Chit-Chat induced coverage problems; here users found it hard to infer what topics SB could understand, with these conversations seen as being too system-driven.

Scheduling Topic coverage

SlugBot: Developing a Computational Model andFramework of a Novel Dialogue Genre

no code implementations • 22 Jul 2019 • Kevin K. Bowden, Jiaqi Wu, Wen Cui, Juraj Juraska, Vrindavan Harrison, Brian Schwarzmann, Nick Santer, Marilyn Walker

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.