2 code implementations • 27 Oct 2023 • David Q. Sun, Artem Abzaliev, Hadas Kotek, Zidi Xiu, Christopher Klein, Jason D. Williams
Controversy is a reflection of our zeitgeist, and an important aspect to any discourse.
no code implementations • 7 Aug 2023 • Cecilia Aas, Hisham Abdelsalam, Irina Belousova, Shruti Bhargava, Jianpeng Cheng, Robert Daland, Joris Driesen, Federico Flego, Tristan Guigue, Anders Johannsen, Partha Lal, Jiarui Lu, Joel Ruben Antony Moniz, Nathan Perkins, Dhivya Piraviperumal, Stephen Pulman, Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha, David Q. Sun, John Torr, Marco Del Vecchio, Jay Wacker, Jason D. Williams, Hong Yu
It has recently become feasible to run personal digital assistants on phones and other personal devices.
no code implementations • 17 Mar 2023 • Zidi Xiu, Kai-Chen Cheng, David Q. Sun, Jiannan Lu, Hadas Kotek, Yuhan Zhang, Paul McCarthy, Christopher Klein, Stephen Pulman, Jason D. Williams
Next, we expand the time horizon to examine behavior changes and show that as users discover the limitations of the IA's understanding and functional capabilities, they learn to adjust the scope and wording of their requests to increase the likelihood of receiving a helpful response from the IA.
no code implementations • COLING 2020 • David Q. Sun, Hadas Kotek, Christopher Klein, Mayank Gupta, William Li, Jason D. Williams
This paper develops and implements a scalable methodology for (a) estimating the noisiness of labels produced by a typical crowdsourcing semantic annotation task, and (b) reducing the resulting error of the labeling process by as much as 20-30% in comparison to other common labeling strategies.
no code implementations • NAACL 2021 • Deepak Muralidharan, Joel Ruben Antony Moniz, Sida Gao, Xiao Yang, Justine Kao, Stephen Pulman, Atish Kothari, Ray Shen, Yinying Pan, Vivek Kaul, Mubarak Seyed Ibrahim, Gang Xiang, Nan Dun, Yidan Zhou, Andy O, Yuan Zhang, Pooja Chitkara, Xuan Wang, Alkesh Patel, Kushal Tayal, Roger Zheng, Peter Grasch, Jason D. Williams, Lin Li
Named Entity Recognition (NER) and Entity Linking (EL) play an essential role in voice assistant interaction, but are challenging due to the special difficulties associated with spoken user queries.
no code implementations • 29 Aug 2019 • Xi C. Chen, Adithya Sagar, Justine T. Kao, Tony Y. Li, Christopher Klein, Stephen Pulman, Ashish Garg, Jason D. Williams
We describe a method for selecting relevant new training data for the LSTM-based domain selection component of our personal assistant system.
1 code implementation • 12 Feb 2019 • Matthew Hausknecht, Ricky Loynd, Greg Yang, Adith Swaminathan, Jason D. Williams
Interactive Fiction (IF) games are complex textual decision making problems.
no code implementations • 13 Oct 2018 • Hai Wang, Jason D. Williams, SingBing Kang
The models (bucket, filter bank, and end-to-end) differ in how much expert knowledge is encoded, with the most general version being purely end-to-end.
no code implementations • WS 2017 • Jason D. Williams, Lars Liden
This is a demonstration of interactive teaching for practical end-to-end dialog systems driven by a recurrent neural network.
3 code implementations • ACL 2017 • Jason D. Williams, Kavosh Asadi, Geoffrey Zweig
End-to-end learning of recurrent neural networks (RNNs) is an attractive solution for dialog systems; however, current techniques are data-intensive and require thousands of dialogs to learn simple behaviors.
no code implementations • 18 Dec 2016 • Kavosh Asadi, Jason D. Williams
Representing a dialog policy as a recurrent neural network (RNN) is attractive because it handles partial observability, infers a latent representation of state, and can be optimized with supervised learning (SL) or reinforcement learning (RL).
no code implementations • 3 Jun 2016 • Jason D. Williams, Geoffrey Zweig
This paper presents a model for end-to-end learning of task-oriented dialog systems.