Search Results for author: Jeff Dalton

Found 8 papers, 3 papers with code

GRILLBot: A multi-modal conversational agent for complex real-world tasks

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.

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Improving Dialogue State Tracking with Turn-based Loss Function and Sequential Data Augmentation

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.

Data Augmentation Dialogue State Tracking

DREQ: Document Re-Ranking Using Entity-based Query Understanding

1 code implementation11 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.

Re-Ranking

Conversational Information Seeking

no code implementations21 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.

Conversational Question Answering Conversational Search

ConvAI3: Generating Clarifying Questions for Open-Domain Dialogue Systems (ClariQ)

3 code implementations23 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.

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