Gunrock: A Social Bot for Complex and Engaging Long Conversations

no code implementations • IJCNLP 2019 • Dian Yu, Michelle Cohn, Yi Mang Yang, Chun-Yen Chen, Weiming Wen, Jiaping Zhang, Mingyang Zhou, Kevin Jesse, Austin Chau, Antara Bhowmick, Shreenath Iyer, Giritheja Sreenivasulu, Sam Davidson, Ashwin Bhandare, Zhou Yu

Gunrock is the winner of the 2018 Amazon Alexa Prize, as evaluated by coherence and engagement from both real users and Amazon-selected expert conversationalists.

A Large-Scale User Study of an Alexa Prize Chatbot: Effect of TTS Dynamism on Perceived Quality of Social Dialog

no code implementations • WS 2019 • Michelle Cohn, Chun-Yen Chen, Zhou Yu

This study tests the effect of cognitive-emotional expression in an Alexa text-to-speech (TTS) voice on users{'} experience with a social dialog system.

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