no code implementations • 19 Apr 2024 • Yang Deng, Lizi Liao, Zhonghua Zheng, Grace Hui Yang, Tat-Seng Chua
Recent research on proactive conversational agents (PCAs) mainly focuses on improving the system's capabilities in anticipating and planning action sequences to accomplish tasks and achieve goals before users articulate their requests.
no code implementations • 27 Nov 2023 • Sibo Dong, Justin Goldstein, Grace Hui Yang
However, these methods focus on finding the representation that best represents a text (aka metric learning) and the actual retrieval function that is responsible for similarity matching between query and document is kept at a minimum by using dot product.
no code implementations • 16 Nov 2023 • Quinn Patwardhan, Grace Hui Yang
This paper contains what the Georgetown InfoSense group has done in regard to solving the challenges presented by TREC iKAT 2023.
no code implementations • 4 Jul 2022 • Sibo Dong, Justin Goldstein, Grace Hui Yang
This paper is interested in investigating whether human gaze signals can be leveraged to improve state-of-the-art search engine performance and how to incorporate this new input signal marked by human attention into existing neural retrieval models.
no code implementations • 21 Jun 2022 • Mingze Wang, Ziyang Zhang, Grace Hui Yang
This paper presents a novel approach that supports natural language voice instructions to guide deep reinforcement learning (DRL) algorithms when training self-driving cars.
Deep Reinforcement Learning
Model-based Reinforcement Learning
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no code implementations • 9 Dec 2021 • Jiyun Luo, Yan Yang, Valerie Nayak, Grace Hui Yang
Existing Web search struggle detection methods rely on effort-based features to identify the struggling moments.
1 code implementation • 2 Jun 2021 • Zhiwen Tang, Hrishikesh Kulkarni, Grace Hui Yang
Many task-oriented dialogue systems use deep reinforcement learning (DRL) to learn policies that respond to the user appropriately and complete the tasks successfully.
no code implementations • ACL 2020 • Katherine Stasaski, Grace Hui Yang, Marti A. Hearst
Automated generation of conversational dialogue using modern neural architectures has made notable advances.
no code implementations • 5 Jun 2020 • Limin Chen, Zhiwen Tang, Grace Hui Yang
Interactive Information Retrieval (IIR) and Reinforcement Learning (RL) share many commonalities, including an agent who learns while interacts, a long-term and complex goal, and an algorithm that explores and adapts.
no code implementations • 5 Dec 2019 • Grace Hui Yang
This article presents a summary graph to show the relationships between Information Retrieval (IR) and other related disciplines.
1 code implementation • 23 Nov 2019 • Zhiwen Tang, Grace Hui Yang
A core interest in building Artificial Intelligence (AI) agents is to let them interact with and assist humans.
no code implementations • 26 Sep 2019 • Zhiwen Tang, Grace Hui Yang
This article presents a re-classification of information seeking (IS) tasks, concepts, and algorithms.
no code implementations • 2 Sep 2019 • Yue Yu, Siyao Peng, Grace Hui Yang
Previous work on DA recognition either assumes one DA per utterance or fails to realize the sequential nature of dialogues.
1 code implementation • 1 Nov 2018 • Zhiwen Tang, Grace Hui Yang
Most neural Information Retrieval (Neu-IR) models derive query-to-document ranking scores based on term-level matching.