no code implementations • EMNLP (NLP4ConvAI) 2021 • Sahas Dendukuri, Pooja Chitkara, Joel Ruben Antony Moniz, Xiao Yang, Manos Tsagkias, Stephen Pulman
Entity tags in human-machine dialog are integral to natural language understanding (NLU) tasks in conversational assistants.
no code implementations • 14 Feb 2021 • Sashank Gondala, Lyan Verwimp, Ernest Pusateri, Manos Tsagkias, Christophe Van Gysel
We customize entropy pruning by allowing for a keep list of infrequent n-grams that require a more relaxed pruning threshold, and propose three methods to construct the keep list.
no code implementations • 26 May 2020 • Christophe Van Gysel, Manos Tsagkias, Ernest Pusateri, Ilya Oparin
We focus on improving the effectiveness of a Virtual Assistant (VA) in recognizing emerging entities in spoken queries.