Neural approaches to conversational AI

J Gao, M Galley, L Li - The 41st international ACM SIGIR conference on …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
This tutorial surveys neural approaches to conversational AI that were developed in the last
few years. We group conversational systems into three categories:(1) question answering …

Beyond dyadic interactions: Considering chatbots as community members

J Seering, M Luria, G Kaufman, J Hammer - Proceedings of the 2019 …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Chatbots have grown as a space for research and development in recent years due both to
the realization of their commercial potential and to advancements in language processing …

Deep reinforcement learning for dialogue generation

J Li, W Monroe, A Ritter, M Galley, J Gao… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2016 - arxiv.org
Recent neural models of dialogue generation offer great promise for generating responses
for conversational agents, but tend to be shortsighted, predicting utterances one at a time …

A network-based end-to-end trainable task-oriented dialogue system

TH Wen, D Vandyke, N Mrksic, M Gasic… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2016 - arxiv.org
Teaching machines to accomplish tasks by conversing naturally with humans is challenging.
Currently, developing task-oriented dialogue systems requires creating multiple components …

Building end-to-end dialogue systems using generative hierarchical neural network models

I Serban, A Sordoni, Y Bengio, A Courville… - Proceedings of the AAAI …, 2016 - ojs.aaai.org
We investigate the task of building open domain, conversational dialogue systems based on
large dialogue corpora using generative models. Generative models produce system …

A survey of available corpora for building data-driven dialogue systems

IV Serban, R Lowe, P Henderson, L Charlin… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2015 - arxiv.org
During the past decade, several areas of speech and language understanding have
witnessed substantial breakthroughs from the use of data-driven models. In the area of …

Towards end-to-end reinforcement learning of dialogue agents for information access

B Dhingra, L Li, X Li, J Gao, YN Chen, F Ahmed… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2016 - arxiv.org
This paper proposes KB-InfoBot--a multi-turn dialogue agent which helps users search
Knowledge Bases (KBs) without composing complicated queries. Such goal-oriented …

Dialogue learning with human teaching and feedback in end-to-end trainable task-oriented dialogue systems

B Liu, G Tur, D Hakkani-Tur, P Shah, L Heck - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2018 - arxiv.org
In this work, we present a hybrid learning method for training task-oriented dialogue systems
through online user interactions. Popular methods for learning task-oriented dialogues …

Latent intention dialogue models

TH Wen, Y Miao, P Blunsom… - … Conference on Machine …, 2017 - proceedings.mlr.press
Developing a dialogue agent that is capable of making autonomous decisions and
communicating by natural language is one of the long-term goals of machine learning …

Continuously learning neural dialogue management

PH Su, M Gasic, N Mrksic, L Rojas-Barahona… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2016 - arxiv.org
We describe a two-step approach for dialogue management in task-oriented spoken
dialogue systems. A unified neural network framework is proposed to enable the system to …