Search Results for author: Jeff Dalton

Found 9 papers, 3 papers with code

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.

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

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

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.

Management Navigate +1

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

Doing Personal LAPS: LLM-Augmented Dialogue Construction for Personalized Multi-Session Conversational Search

no code implementations6 May 2024 Hideaki Joko, Shubham Chatterjee, Andrew Ramsay, Arjen P. de Vries, Jeff Dalton, Faegheh Hasibi

Our results show that responses generated explicitly using extracted preferences better match user's actual preferences, highlighting the value of using extracted preferences over simple dialogue history.

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