Task Oriented Dialogues

Conversation between two people is usually of MIXED-INITIATIVE, with CONTROL over the con- versation being transferred from one person to an- other. We apply a set of rules for the …...

AbstractOur purpose is to propose and discuss the latest version of an integrated method for dialogue analysis, annotation and evaluation., using a set of different pragmatic parameters. The annotation scheme …...

AbstractExisting dialogue corpora and models are typically designed under two disjoint motives: while task-oriented systems focus on achieving functional goals (e.g., booking hotels), open-domain chatbots aim at making socially engaging …...

AbstractThe Uniform Information Density principle states that speakers plan their utterances to reduce fluctuations in the density of the information transmitted. In this paper, we test whether, and within which …...

AbstractThe recent success of reinforcement learning (RL) in solving complex tasks is often attributed to its capacity to explore and exploit an environment. Sample efficiency is usually not an issue …...

AbstractAugmentation of task-oriented dialogues has followed standard methods used for plain-text such as back-translation, word-level manipulation, and paraphrasing despite its richly annotated structure. In this work, we introduce an augmentation …...

AbstractUsers interacting with voice assistants today need to phrase their requests in a very specific manner to elicit an appropriate response. This limits the user experience, and is partly due …...