no code implementations • ICON 2021 • Nidhi Arora, Rashmi Prasad, Srinivas Bangalore
Designing robust conversation systems with great customer experience requires a team of design experts to think of all probable ways a customer can interact with the system and then author responses for each use case individually.
no code implementations • 8 Nov 2023 • Karan Singla, Shahab Jalalvand, Yeon-Jun Kim, Antonio Moreno Daniel, Srinivas Bangalore, Andrej Ljolje, Ben Stern
Recent studies have made some progress in refining end-to-end (E2E) speech recognition encoders by applying Connectionist Temporal Classification (CTC) loss to enhance named entity recognition within transcriptions.
Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +3
no code implementations • 16 Mar 2023 • Evandro Gouvêa, Ali Dadgar, Shahab Jalalvand, Rathi Chengalvarayan, Badrinath Jayakumar, Ryan Price, Nicholas Ruiz, Jennifer McGovern, Srinivas Bangalore, Ben Stern
Trustera, the first functional system that redacts personally identifiable information (PII) in real-time spoken conversations to remove agents' need to hear sensitive information while preserving the naturalness of live customer-agent conversations.
Automatic Speech Recognition Natural Language Understanding +2
no code implementations • 16 Feb 2023 • Karan Singla, Yeon-Jun Kim, Srinivas Bangalore
In human-computer conversations, extracting entities such as names, street addresses and email addresses from speech is a challenging task.
no code implementations • 20 Apr 2022 • Karan Singla, Daniel Pressel, Ryan Price, Bhargav Srinivas Chinnari, Yeon-Jun Kim, Srinivas Bangalore
In this paper, we propose a novel architecture for multi-modal speech and text input.
no code implementations • 29 Mar 2022 • Karan Singla, Shahab Jalalvand, Yeon-Jun Kim, Ryan Price, Daniel Pressel, Srinivas Bangalore
Person name capture from human speech is a difficult task in human-machine conversations.
no code implementations • 2 Jul 2021 • Shahab Jalalvand, Srinivas Bangalore
An intelligent virtual assistant (IVA) enables effortless conversations in call routing through spoken utterance classification (SUC) which is a special form of spoken language understanding (SLU).
no code implementations • NAACL 2021 • Ryan Price, Mahnoosh Mehrabani, Narendra Gupta, Yeon-Jun Kim, Shahab Jalalvand, Minhua Chen, Yanjie Zhao, Srinivas Bangalore
Spoken language understanding (SLU) extracts the intended mean- ing from a user utterance and is a critical component of conversational virtual agents.
1 code implementation • NAACL 2021 • Brian Lester, Sagnik Ray Choudhury, Rashmi Prasad, Srinivas Bangalore
Complex natural language understanding modules in dialog systems have a richer understanding of user utterances, and thus are critical in providing a better user experience.
1 code implementation • Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2020 • Brian Lester, Daniel Pressel, Amy Hemmeter, Sagnik Ray Choudhury, Srinivas Bangalore
Current state-of-the-art models for named entity recognition (NER) are neural models with a conditional random field (CRF) as the final layer.
1 code implementation • 30 Sep 2020 • Brian Lester, Daniel Pressel, Amy Hemmeter, Sagnik Ray Choudhury, Srinivas Bangalore
Most state-of-the-art models in natural language processing (NLP) are neural models built on top of large, pre-trained, contextual language models that generate representations of words in context and are fine-tuned for the task at hand.
no code implementations • CONLL 2018 • Riyaz A. Bhat, Irshad Bhat, Srinivas Bangalore
While segmentation is learned separately, we use neural stacking for joint learning of POS tagging and parsing tasks.
no code implementations • 11 May 2018 • Nicholas Ruiz, Srinivas Bangalore, John Chen
With the resurgence of chat-based dialog systems in consumer and enterprise applications, there has been much success in developing data-driven and rule-based natural language models to understand human intent.
no code implementations • RANLP 2017 • John Chen, Srinivas Bangalore
With the increasing number of communication platforms that offer variety of ways of connecting two interlocutors, there is a resurgence of chat-based dialog systems.