Alexa, Let's Work Together: Introducing the First Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge on Conversational Task Assistance

no code implementations • 13 Sep 2022 • Anna Gottardi, Osman Ipek, Giuseppe Castellucci, Shui Hu, Lavina Vaz, Yao Lu, Anju Khatri, Anjali Chadha, Desheng Zhang, Sattvik Sahai, Prerna Dwivedi, Hangjie Shi, Lucy Hu, Andy Huang, Luke Dai, Bofei Yang, Varun Somani, Pankaj Rajan, Ron Rezac, Michael Johnston, Savanna Stiff, Leslie Ball, David Carmel, Yang Liu, Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Oleg Rokhlenko, Kate Bland, Eugene Agichtein, Reza Ghanadan, Yoelle Maarek

Since its inception in 2016, the Alexa Prize program has enabled hundreds of university students to explore and compete to develop conversational agents through the SocialBot Grand Challenge.

Understanding How People Rate Their Conversations

no code implementations • 1 Jun 2022 • Alexandros Papangelis, Nicole Chartier, Pankaj Rajan, Julia Hirschberg, Dilek Hakkani-Tur

In this work, we conduct a study to better understand how people rate their interactions with conversational agents.

Spoken Dialogue Systems

Multi-Sentence Knowledge Selection in Open-Domain Dialogue

1 code implementation • INLG (ACL) 2021 • Mihail Eric, Nicole Chartier, Behnam Hedayatnia, Karthik Gopalakrishnan, Pankaj Rajan, Yang Liu, Dilek Hakkani-Tur

Incorporating external knowledge sources effectively in conversations is a longstanding problem in open-domain dialogue research.

Sentence

From Paper to Machine: Extracting Strokes from Images for use in Sketch Recognition

1 code implementation • Workshop on Sketch-Based Interfaces and Modeling 2008 • Pankaj Rajan, T. Hammond

Online sketches provide significantly more information than paper sketches, but they still do not provide the flexibility, naturalness, and simplicity of a simple piece of paper.

Sketch Recognition