Learning to Plan and Realize Separately for Open-Ended Dialogue Systems

no code implementations • Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2020 • Sashank Santhanam, Zhuo Cheng, Brodie Mather, Bonnie Dorr, Archna Bhatia, Bryanna Hebenstreit, Alan Zemel, Adam Dalton, Tomek Strzalkowski, Samira Shaikh

Achieving true human-like ability to conduct a conversation remains an elusive goal for open-ended dialogue systems.

Text Generation

Active Defense Against Social Engineering: The Case for Human Language Technology

no code implementations • LREC 2020 • Adam Dalton, Ehsan Aghaei, Ehab Al-Shaer, Archna Bhatia, Esteban Castillo, Zhuo Cheng, Sreekar Dhaduvai, Qi Duan, Bryanna Hebenstreit, Md Mazharul Islam, Younes Karimi, Amir Masoumzadeh, Brodie Mather, Sashank Santhanam, Samira Shaikh, Alan Zemel, Tomek Strzalkowski, Bonnie J. Dorr

We describe a system that supports natural language processing (NLP) components for active defenses against social engineering attacks.

Attribute Dialogue Generation +3

Adaptation of a Lexical Organization for Social Engineering Detection and Response Generation

no code implementations • LREC 2020 • Archna Bhatia, Adam Dalton, Brodie Mather, Sashank Santhanam, Samira Shaikh, Alan Zemel, Tomek Strzalkowski, Bonnie J. Dorr

We present a paradigm for extensible lexicon development based on Lexical Conceptual Structure to support social engineering detection and response generation.

Response Generation

Detecting Asks in SE attacks: Impact of Linguistic and Structural Knowledge

no code implementations • 25 Feb 2020 • Bonnie J. Dorr, Archna Bhatia, Adam Dalton, Brodie Mather, Bryanna Hebenstreit, Sashank Santhanam, Zhuo Cheng, Samira Shaikh, Alan Zemel, Tomek Strzalkowski

Social engineers attempt to manipulate users into undertaking actions such as downloading malware by clicking links or providing access to money or sensitive information.