1 code implementation • Findings (NAACL) 2022 • Georgios P. Spithourakis, Ivan Vulić, Michał Lis, Iñigo Casanueva, Paweł Budzianowski
Knowledge-based authentication is crucial for task-oriented spoken dialogue systems that offer personalised and privacy-focused services.
Ranked #1 on
Speaker Identification
on EVI fr-FR
1 code implementation • Findings (NAACL) 2022 • Iñigo Casanueva, Ivan Vulić, Georgios P. Spithourakis, Paweł Budzianowski
2) The ontology is divided into domain-specific and generic (i. e., domain-universal) intent modules that overlap across domains, promoting cross-domain reusability of annotated examples.
no code implementations • EMNLP 2021 • Ivan Vulić, Pei-Hao Su, Sam Coope, Daniela Gerz, Paweł Budzianowski, Iñigo Casanueva, Nikola Mrkšić, Tsung-Hsien Wen
Transformer-based language models (LMs) pretrained on large text collections are proven to store a wealth of semantic knowledge.
5 code implementations • WS 2020 • Iñigo Casanueva, Tadas Temčinas, Daniela Gerz, Matthew Henderson, Ivan Vulić
Building conversational systems in new domains and with added functionality requires resource-efficient models that work under low-data regimes (i. e., in few-shot setups).
5 code implementations • Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2020 • Matthew Henderson, Iñigo Casanueva, Nikola Mrkšić, Pei-Hao Su, Tsung-Hsien Wen, Ivan Vulić
General-purpose pretrained sentence encoders such as BERT are not ideal for real-world conversational AI applications; they are computationally heavy, slow, and expensive to train.
Ranked #1 on
Conversational Response Selection
on PolyAI Reddit
no code implementations • IJCNLP 2019 • Matthew Henderson, Ivan Vulić, Iñigo Casanueva, Paweł Budzianowski, Daniela Gerz, Sam Coope, Georgios Spithourakis, Tsung-Hsien Wen, Nikola Mrkšić, Pei-Hao Su
We present PolyResponse, a conversational search engine that supports task-oriented dialogue.
1 code implementation • ACL 2019 • Matthew Henderson, Ivan Vulić, Daniela Gerz, Iñigo Casanueva, Paweł Budzianowski, Sam Coope, Georgios Spithourakis, Tsung-Hsien Wen, Nikola Mrkšić, Pei-Hao Su
Despite their popularity in the chatbot literature, retrieval-based models have had modest impact on task-oriented dialogue systems, with the main obstacle to their application being the low-data regime of most task-oriented dialogue tasks.
3 code implementations • WS 2019 • Matthew Henderson, Paweł Budzianowski, Iñigo Casanueva, Sam Coope, Daniela Gerz, Girish Kumar, Nikola Mrkšić, Georgios Spithourakis, Pei-Hao Su, Ivan Vulić, Tsung-Hsien Wen
Progress in Machine Learning is often driven by the availability of large datasets, and consistent evaluation metrics for comparing modeling approaches.
BIG-bench Machine Learning
Conversational Response Selection
+1
no code implementations • WS 2018 • Stefan Ultes, Paweł\ Budzianowski, Iñigo Casanueva, Lina Rojas-Barahona, Bo-Hsiang Tseng, Yen-chen Wu, Steve Young, Milica Gašić
Statistical spoken dialogue systems usually rely on a single- or multi-domain dialogue model that is restricted in its capabilities of modelling complex dialogue structures, e. g., relations.
5 code implementations • EMNLP 2018 • Paweł Budzianowski, Tsung-Hsien Wen, Bo-Hsiang Tseng, Iñigo Casanueva, Stefan Ultes, Osman Ramadan, Milica Gašić
Even though machine learning has become the major scene in dialogue research community, the real breakthrough has been blocked by the scale of data available.
no code implementations • 14 Jun 2018 • Lina M. Rojas-Barahona, Stefan Ultes, Pawel Budzianowski, Iñigo Casanueva, Milica Gasic, Bo-Hsiang Tseng, Steve Young
This paper presents two ways of dealing with scarce data in semantic decoding using N-Best speech recognition hypotheses.
no code implementations • NAACL 2018 • Iñigo Casanueva, Paweł Budzianowski, Pei-Hao Su, Stefan Ultes, Lina Rojas-Barahona, Bo-Hsiang Tseng, Milica Gašić
Reinforcement learning (RL) is a promising approach to solve dialogue policy optimisation.
no code implementations • 29 Nov 2017 • Iñigo Casanueva, Paweł Budzianowski, Pei-Hao Su, Nikola Mrkšić, Tsung-Hsien Wen, Stefan Ultes, Lina Rojas-Barahona, Steve Young, Milica Gašić
Dialogue assistants are rapidly becoming an indispensable daily aid.
no code implementations • WS 2017 • Stefan Ultes, Paweł Budzianowski, Iñigo Casanueva, Nikola Mrkšić, Lina Rojas-Barahona, Pei-Hao Su, Tsung-Hsien Wen, Milica Gašić, Steve Young
Reinforcement learning is widely used for dialogue policy optimization where the reward function often consists of more than one component, e. g., the dialogue success and the dialogue length.
Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning
reinforcement-learning
+2
no code implementations • WS 2017 • Paweł Budzianowski, Stefan Ultes, Pei-Hao Su, Nikola Mrkšić, Tsung-Hsien Wen, Iñigo Casanueva, Lina Rojas-Barahona, Milica Gašić
In doing that, we show that our approach has the potential to facilitate policy optimisation for more sophisticated multi-domain dialogue systems.