no code implementations • SIGDIAL (ACL) 2022 • Spandana Gella, Aishwarya Padmakumar, Patrick Lange, Dilek Hakkani-Tur
Embodied agents need to be able to interact in natural language – understanding task descriptions and asking appropriate follow up questions to obtain necessary information to be effective at successfully accomplishing tasks for a wide range of users.
no code implementations • 24 Nov 2023 • Di Jin, Shikib Mehri, Devamanyu Hazarika, Aishwarya Padmakumar, Sungjin Lee, Yang Liu, Mahdi Namazifar
Learning from human feedback is a prominent technique to align the output of large language models (LLMs) with human expectations.
no code implementations • 9 Aug 2023 • Hangjie Shi, Leslie Ball, Govind Thattai, Desheng Zhang, Lucy Hu, Qiaozi Gao, Suhaila Shakiah, Xiaofeng Gao, Aishwarya Padmakumar, Bofei Yang, Cadence Chung, Dinakar Guthy, Gaurav Sukhatme, Karthika Arumugam, Matthew Wen, Osman Ipek, Patrick Lange, Rohan Khanna, Shreyas Pansare, Vasu Sharma, Chao Zhang, Cris Flagg, Daniel Pressel, Lavina Vaz, Luke Dai, Prasoon Goyal, Sattvik Sahai, Shaohua Liu, Yao Lu, Anna Gottardi, Shui Hu, Yang Liu, Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Kate Bland, Heather Rocker, James Jeun, Yadunandana Rao, Michael Johnston, Akshaya Iyengar, Arindam Mandal, Prem Natarajan, Reza Ghanadan
The Alexa Prize program has empowered numerous university students to explore, experiment, and showcase their talents in building conversational agents through challenges like the SocialBot Grand Challenge and the TaskBot Challenge.
no code implementations • 10 May 2023 • Mert İnan, Aishwarya Padmakumar, Spandana Gella, Patrick Lange, Dilek Hakkani-Tur
Task planning is an important component of traditional robotics systems enabling robots to compose fine grained skills to perform more complex tasks.
1 code implementation • 17 Feb 2023 • Yan Xu, Mahdi Namazifar, Devamanyu Hazarika, Aishwarya Padmakumar, Yang Liu, Dilek Hakkani-Tür
Large pre-trained language models (PLMs) have been shown to retain implicit knowledge within their parameters.
no code implementations • 26 Sep 2022 • Spandana Gella, Aishwarya Padmakumar, Patrick Lange, Dilek Hakkani-Tur
Embodied agents need to be able to interact in natural language understanding task descriptions and asking appropriate follow up questions to obtain necessary information to be effective at successfully accomplishing tasks for a wide range of users.
no code implementations • insights (ACL) 2022 • Hyounghun Kim, Aishwarya Padmakumar, Di Jin, Mohit Bansal, Dilek Hakkani-Tur
Natural language guided embodied task completion is a challenging problem since it requires understanding natural language instructions, aligning them with egocentric visual observations, and choosing appropriate actions to execute in the environment to produce desired changes.
1 code implementation • 11 Oct 2021 • Sashank Santhanam, Behnam Hedayatnia, Spandana Gella, Aishwarya Padmakumar, Seokhwan Kim, Yang Liu, Dilek Hakkani-Tur
We demonstrate the benefit of our Conv-FEVER dataset by showing that the models trained on this data perform reasonably well to detect factually inconsistent responses with respect to the provided knowledge through evaluation on our human annotated data.
3 code implementations • 1 Oct 2021 • Aishwarya Padmakumar, Jesse Thomason, Ayush Shrivastava, Patrick Lange, Anjali Narayan-Chen, Spandana Gella, Robinson Piramuthu, Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-Tur
Robots operating in human spaces must be able to engage in natural language interaction with people, both understanding and executing instructions, and using conversation to resolve ambiguity and recover from mistakes.
no code implementations • SIGDIAL (ACL) 2021 • Alexandros Papangelis, Karthik Gopalakrishnan, Aishwarya Padmakumar, Seokhwan Kim, Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-Tur
We show an average improvement of 35% in intent detection and 21% in slot tagging over a baseline model trained from the seed data.
no code implementations • 26 Jun 2020 • Aishwarya Padmakumar, Raymond J. Mooney
Dialog systems research has primarily been focused around two main types of applications - task-oriented dialog systems that learn to use clarification to aid in understanding a goal, and open-ended dialog systems that are expected to carry out unconstrained "chit chat" conversations.
no code implementations • 9 Jun 2020 • Aishwarya Padmakumar, Raymond J. Mooney
Intelligent systems need to be able to recover from mistakes, resolve uncertainty, and adapt to novel concepts not seen during training.
1 code implementation • 1 Mar 2019 • Jesse Thomason, Aishwarya Padmakumar, Jivko Sinapov, Nick Walker, Yuqian Jiang, Harel Yedidsion, Justin Hart, Peter Stone, Raymond J. Mooney
Natural language understanding for robotics can require substantial domain- and platform-specific engineering.
no code implementations • EMNLP 2018 • Aishwarya Padmakumar, Peter Stone, Raymond J. Mooney
Active learning identifies data points to label that are expected to be the most useful in improving a supervised model.
no code implementations • EACL 2017 • Aishwarya Padmakumar, Jesse Thomason, Raymond J. Mooney
Natural language understanding and dialog management are two integral components of interactive dialog systems.