Can You be More Social? Injecting Politeness and Positivity into Task-Oriented Conversational Agents

no code implementations • 29 Dec 2020 • Yi-Chia Wang, Alexandros Papangelis, Runze Wang, Zhaleh Feizollahi, Gokhan Tur, Robert Kraut

The second component of the research is the construction of a conversational agent model capable of injecting social language into an agent's responses while still preserving content.

Controllable Text Generation with Focused Variation

no code implementations • Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2020 • Lei Shu, Alexandros Papangelis, Yi-Chia Wang, Gokhan Tur, Hu Xu, Zhaleh Feizollahi, Bing Liu, Piero Molino

This work introduces Focused-Variation Network (FVN), a novel model to control language generation.

Attribute Diversity +1

Task Completion Platform: A self-serve multi-domain goal oriented dialogue platform

no code implementations • NAACL 2016 • Paul Crook, Alex Marin, Vipul Agarwal, Khushboo Aggarwal, Tasos Anastasakos, Ravi Bikkula, Daniel Boies, Asli Celikyilmaz, Ch, Senthilkumar ramohan, Zhaleh Feizollahi, Roman Holenstein, Minwoo Jeong, Omar Khan, Young-Bum Kim, Elizabeth Krawczyk, Xiaohu Liu, Danko Panic, Vasiliy Radostev, Nikhil Ramesh, Jean-Phillipe Robichaud, Alex Rochette, re, Logan Stromberg, Ruhi Sarikaya

Dialogue Management

Resolving Referring Expressions in Conversational Dialogs for Natural User Interfaces

no code implementations • EMNLP 2014 • Asli Celikyilmaz, Zhaleh Feizollahi, Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Ruhi Sarikaya