no code implementations • SIGDIAL (ACL) 2022 • Carlos Gemmell, Federico Rossetto, Iain Mackie, Paul Owoicho, Sophie Fischer, Jeff Dalton
We present GRILLBot, an open-source multi-modal task-oriented voice assistant to help users perform complex tasks, focusing on the domains of cooking and home improvement.
1 code implementation • Findings (EMNLP) 2021 • Jarana Manotumruksa, Jeff Dalton, Edgar Meij, Emine Yilmaz
While state-of-the-art Dialogue State Tracking (DST) models show promising results, all of them rely on a traditional cross-entropy loss function during the training process, which may not be optimal for improving the joint goal accuracy.
1 code implementation • 11 Jan 2024 • Shubham Chatterjee, Iain Mackie, Jeff Dalton
While entity-oriented neural IR models have advanced significantly, they often overlook a key nuance: the varying degrees of influence individual entities within a document have on its overall relevance.
no code implementations • 21 Jan 2022 • Hamed Zamani, Johanne R. Trippas, Jeff Dalton, Filip Radlinski
Conversational information seeking (CIS) is concerned with a sequence of interactions between one or more users and an information system.
3 code implementations • 23 Sep 2020 • Mohammad Aliannejadi, Julia Kiseleva, Aleksandr Chuklin, Jeff Dalton, Mikhail Burtsev
The main aim of the conversational systems is to return an appropriate answer in response to the user requests.
no code implementations • 20 Dec 2019 • Laura Dietz, Bhaskar Mitra, Jeremy Pickens, Hana Anber, Sandeep Avula, Asia Biega, Adrian Boteanu, Shubham Chatterjee, Jeff Dalton, Shiri Dori-Hacohen, John Foley, Henry Feild, Ben Gamari, Rosie Jones, Pallika Kanani, Sumanta Kashyapi, Widad Machmouchi, Matthew Mitsui, Steve Nole, Alexandre Tachard Passos, Jordan Ramsdell, Adam Roegiest, David Smith, Alessandro Sordoni
The vision of HIPstIR is that early stage information retrieval (IR) researchers get together to develop a future for non-mainstream ideas and research agendas in IR.