Athena 2.0: Discourse and User Modeling in Open Domain Dialogue

no code implementations • 3 Aug 2023 • Omkar Patil, Lena Reed, Kevin K. Bowden, Juraj Juraska, Wen Cui, Vrindavan Harrison, Rishi Rajasekaran, Angela Ramirez, Cecilia Li, Eduardo Zamora, Phillip Lee, Jeshwanth Bheemanpally, Rohan Pandey, Adwait Ratnaparkhi, Marilyn Walker

Conversational agents are consistently growing in popularity and many people interact with them every day.

coreference-resolution named-entity-recognition +1

A Transformer-based Response Evaluator for Open-Domain Spoken Conversation

1 code implementation • 9 Feb 2023 • Vrindavan Harrison, Rishi Rajasekaran, Marilyn Walker

First, we collect a corpus of Athena conversations with live human traffic, where potential responses from all enabled response generators are logged and subsequently annotated for response quality.

Athena 2.0: Contextualized Dialogue Management for an Alexa Prize SocialBot

no code implementations • EMNLP (ACL) 2021 • Juraj Juraska, Kevin K. Bowden, Lena Reed, Vrindavan Harrison, Wen Cui, Omkar Patil, Rishi Rajasekaran, Angela Ramirez, Cecilia Li, Eduardo Zamora, Phillip Lee, Jeshwanth Bheemanpally, Rohan Pandey, Adwait Ratnaparkhi, Marilyn Walker

Athena 2. 0 is an Alexa Prize SocialBot that has been a finalist in the last two Alexa Prize Grand Challenges.

Dialogue Management Management

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