Search Results for author: Saurav Sahay

Found 32 papers, 1 papers with code

CueBot: Cue-Controlled Response Generation for Assistive Interaction Usages

no code implementations SLPAT (ACL) 2022 Shachi H. Kumar, Hsuan Su, Ramesh Manuvinakurike, Max Pinaroc, Sai Prasad, Saurav Sahay, Lama Nachman

Conversational assistants are ubiquitous among the general population, however, these systems have not had an impact on people with disabilities, or speech and language disorders, for whom basic day-to-day communication and social interaction is a huge struggle.

Language Modelling Response Generation

Introducing v0.5 of the AI Safety Benchmark from MLCommons

1 code implementation18 Apr 2024 Bertie Vidgen, Adarsh Agrawal, Ahmed M. Ahmed, Victor Akinwande, Namir Al-Nuaimi, Najla Alfaraj, Elie Alhajjar, Lora Aroyo, Trupti Bavalatti, Borhane Blili-Hamelin, Kurt Bollacker, Rishi Bomassani, Marisa Ferrara Boston, Siméon Campos, Kal Chakra, Canyu Chen, Cody Coleman, Zacharie Delpierre Coudert, Leon Derczynski, Debojyoti Dutta, Ian Eisenberg, James Ezick, Heather Frase, Brian Fuller, Ram Gandikota, Agasthya Gangavarapu, Ananya Gangavarapu, James Gealy, Rajat Ghosh, James Goel, Usman Gohar, Sujata Goswami, Scott A. Hale, Wiebke Hutiri, Joseph Marvin Imperial, Surgan Jandial, Nick Judd, Felix Juefei-Xu, Foutse khomh, Bhavya Kailkhura, Hannah Rose Kirk, Kevin Klyman, Chris Knotz, Michael Kuchnik, Shachi H. Kumar, Chris Lengerich, Bo Li, Zeyi Liao, Eileen Peters Long, Victor Lu, Yifan Mai, Priyanka Mary Mammen, Kelvin Manyeki, Sean McGregor, Virendra Mehta, Shafee Mohammed, Emanuel Moss, Lama Nachman, Dinesh Jinenhally Naganna, Amin Nikanjam, Besmira Nushi, Luis Oala, Iftach Orr, Alicia Parrish, Cigdem Patlak, William Pietri, Forough Poursabzi-Sangdeh, Eleonora Presani, Fabrizio Puletti, Paul Röttger, Saurav Sahay, Tim Santos, Nino Scherrer, Alice Schoenauer Sebag, Patrick Schramowski, Abolfazl Shahbazi, Vin Sharma, Xudong Shen, Vamsi Sistla, Leonard Tang, Davide Testuggine, Vithursan Thangarasa, Elizabeth Anne Watkins, Rebecca Weiss, Chris Welty, Tyler Wilbers, Adina Williams, Carole-Jean Wu, Poonam Yadav, Xianjun Yang, Yi Zeng, Wenhui Zhang, Fedor Zhdanov, Jiacheng Zhu, Percy Liang, Peter Mattson, Joaquin Vanschoren

We created a new taxonomy of 13 hazard categories, of which 7 have tests in the v0. 5 benchmark.

Learning from Red Teaming: Gender Bias Provocation and Mitigation in Large Language Models

no code implementations17 Oct 2023 Hsuan Su, Cheng-Chu Cheng, Hua Farn, Shachi H Kumar, Saurav Sahay, Shang-Tse Chen, Hung-Yi Lee

Recently, researchers have made considerable improvements in dialogue systems with the progress of large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT and GPT-4.

In-Context Learning

Inspecting Spoken Language Understanding from Kids for Basic Math Learning at Home

no code implementations1 Jun 2023 Eda Okur, Roddy Fuentes Alba, Saurav Sahay, Lama Nachman

Enriching the quality of early childhood education with interactive math learning at home systems, empowered by recent advances in conversational AI technologies, is slowly becoming a reality.

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +5

General Framework for Self-Supervised Model Priming for Parameter-Efficient Fine-tuning

no code implementations2 Dec 2022 Shih-Cheng Huang, Shih-Heng Wang, Min-Han Shih, Saurav Sahay, Hung-Yi Lee

To tackle these issues, we propose a general framework to enhance the few-shot adaptation and cross-domain generalization ability of parameter-efficient methods.

Domain Generalization

End-to-End Evaluation of a Spoken Dialogue System for Learning Basic Mathematics

no code implementations7 Nov 2022 Eda Okur, Saurav Sahay, Roddy Fuentes Alba, Lama Nachman

The advances in language-based Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies applied to build educational applications can present AI for social-good opportunities with a broader positive impact.

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +4

NLU for Game-based Learning in Real: Initial Evaluations

no code implementations games (LREC) 2022 Eda Okur, Saurav Sahay, Lama Nachman

Intelligent systems designed for play-based interactions should be contextually aware of the users and their surroundings.

Intent Recognition Math +2

Seamlessly Integrating Factual Information and Social Content with Persuasive Dialogue

no code implementations15 Mar 2022 Maximillian Chen, Weiyan Shi, Feifan Yan, Ryan Hou, Jingwen Zhang, Saurav Sahay, Zhou Yu

Complex conversation settings such as persuasion involve communicating changes in attitude or behavior, so users' perspectives need to be addressed, even when not directly related to the topic.

Chatbot

Controllable Response Generation for Assistive Use-cases

no code implementations4 Dec 2021 Shachi H Kumar, Hsuan Su, Ramesh Manuvinakurike, Saurav Sahay, Lama Nachman

We build models that can suggest relevant cues in the dialog response context which is used to control response generation and can speed up communication.

Language Modelling Response Generation

Semi-supervised Interactive Intent Labeling

no code implementations NAACL (DaSH) 2021 Saurav Sahay, Eda Okur, Nagib Hakim, Lama Nachman

Building the Natural Language Understanding (NLU) modules of task-oriented Spoken Dialogue Systems (SDS) involves a definition of intents and entities, collection of task-relevant data, annotating the data with intents and entities, and then repeating the same process over and over again for adding any functionality/enhancement to the SDS.

Clustering Data Augmentation +2

Refine and Imitate: Reducing Repetition and Inconsistency in Dialogue Generation via Reinforcement Learning and Human Demonstration

no code implementations1 Jan 2021 Weiyan Shi, Yu Li, Saurav Sahay, Zhou Yu

Despite the recent success of large-scale language models on various downstream NLP tasks, the repetition and inconsistency problems still persist in dialogue response generation.

Dialogue Generation Language Modelling +2

Refine and Imitate: Reducing Repetition and Inconsistency in Persuasion Dialogues via Reinforcement Learning and Human Demonstration

no code implementations Findings (EMNLP) 2021 Weiyan Shi, Yu Li, Saurav Sahay, Zhou Yu

Persuasion dialogue systems reflect the machine's ability to make strategic moves beyond verbal communication, and therefore differentiate themselves from task-oriented or open-domain dialogue systems and have their own unique values.

Language Modelling Reinforcement Learning (RL) +2

Audio-Visual Understanding of Passenger Intents for In-Cabin Conversational Agents

no code implementations WS 2020 Eda Okur, Shachi H. Kumar, Saurav Sahay, Lama Nachman

To this end, understanding passenger intents from spoken interactions and vehicle vision systems is a crucial component for developing contextual and visually grounded conversational agents for AV.

Dialogue Understanding Intent Detection

Low Rank Fusion based Transformers for Multimodal Sequences

no code implementations WS 2020 Saurav Sahay, Eda Okur, Shachi H. Kumar, Lama Nachman

In this work, we experiment with modeling modality-specific sensory signals to attend to our latent multimodal emotional intentions and vice versa expressed via low-rank multimodal fusion and multimodal transformers.

Emotion Recognition

Leveraging Topics and Audio Features with Multimodal Attention for Audio Visual Scene-Aware Dialog

no code implementations20 Dec 2019 Shachi H. Kumar, Eda Okur, Saurav Sahay, Jonathan Huang, Lama Nachman

With the recent advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Intelligent Virtual Assistants (IVA) such as Alexa, Google Home, etc., have become a ubiquitous part of many homes.

Audio Classification Response Generation

Exploring Context, Attention and Audio Features for Audio Visual Scene-Aware Dialog

no code implementations20 Dec 2019 Shachi H. Kumar, Eda Okur, Saurav Sahay, Jonathan Huang, Lama Nachman

Recent progress in visual grounding techniques and Audio Understanding are enabling machines to understand shared semantic concepts and listen to the various sensory events in the environment.

Audio Classification Visual Grounding

Modeling Intent, Dialog Policies and Response Adaptation for Goal-Oriented Interactions

no code implementations20 Dec 2019 Saurav Sahay, Shachi H. Kumar, Eda Okur, Haroon Syed, Lama Nachman

Building a machine learning driven spoken dialog system for goal-oriented interactions involves careful design of intents and data collection along with development of intent recognition models and dialog policy learning algorithms.

Intent Recognition

Towards Multimodal Understanding of Passenger-Vehicle Interactions in Autonomous Vehicles: Intent/Slot Recognition Utilizing Audio-Visual Data

no code implementations20 Sep 2019 Eda Okur, Shachi H. Kumar, Saurav Sahay, Lama Nachman

Understanding passenger intents from spoken interactions and car's vision (both inside and outside the vehicle) are important building blocks towards developing contextual dialog systems for natural interactions in autonomous vehicles (AV).

Autonomous Vehicles Intent Detection +2

Natural Language Interactions in Autonomous Vehicles: Intent Detection and Slot Filling from Passenger Utterances

no code implementations23 Apr 2019 Eda Okur, Shachi H. Kumar, Saurav Sahay, Asli Arslan Esme, Lama Nachman

Understanding passenger intents and extracting relevant slots are important building blocks towards developing contextual dialogue systems for natural interactions in autonomous vehicles (AV).

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +5

Technology Solutions to Combat Online Harassment

no code implementations WS 2017 George Kennedy, Andrew McCollough, Edward Dixon, Alexei Bastidas, John Ryan, Chris Loo, Saurav Sahay

This work is part of a new initiative to use machine learning to identify online harassment in social media and comment streams.

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