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 …

Scaling statistical language understanding systems across domains and intents

R Sarikaya, A Deoras, FA Celikyilmaz… - US Patent …, 2016 - Google Patents
A scalable statistical language understanding (SLU) system uses a fixed number of
understanding models that scale across domains and intents (ie single vs. multiple intents …

Two-stage multi-intent detection for spoken language understanding

B Kim, S Ryu, GG Lee - Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2017 - Springer
This paper presents a system to detect multiple intents (MIs) in an input sentence when only
single-intent (SI)-labeled training data are available. To solve the problem, this paper …

[PDF][PDF] Policy learning for domain selection in an extensible multi-domain spoken dialogue system

Z Wang, H Chen, G Wang, H Tian, H Wu… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - aclanthology.org
This paper proposes a Markov Decision Process and reinforcement learning based
approach for domain selection in a multidomain Spoken Dialogue System built on a …

[PDF][PDF] Task lineages: Dialog state tracking for flexible interaction

S Lee, A Stent - Proceedings of the 17th Annual Meeting of the …, 2016 - aclanthology.org
We consider the gap between user demands for seamless handling of complex interactions,
and recent advances in dialog state tracking technologies. We propose a new statistical …

The roles and recognition of haptic-ostensive actions in collaborative multimodal human–human dialogues

L Chen, M Javaid, B Di Eugenio, M Žefran - Computer Speech & Language, 2015 - Elsevier
The RoboHelper project has the goal of develo** assistive robots for the elderly. One
crucial component of such a robot is a multimodal dialogue architecture, since collaborative …

Transfer learning techniques for disparate label sets

YB Kim, R Sarikaya - US Patent 11,062,228, 2021 - Google Patents
Examples of the present disclosure describe systems and methods of transfer learning
techniques for disparate label sets. In aspects, a data set may be accessed on a server …

Building multi-domain conversational systems from single domain resources

D Griol, JM Molina - Neurocomputing, 2018 - Elsevier
Current advances in the development of mobile and smart devices have generated a
growing demand for natural human-machine interaction and favored the intelligent assistant …

[PDF][PDF] Lightly supervised learning of procedural dialog systems

S Volkova, P Choudhury, C Quirk… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - aclanthology.org
Procedural dialog systems can help users achieve a wide range of goals. However, such
systems are challenging to build, currently requiring manual engineering of substantial …

Distributed open-domain conversational understanding framework with domain independent extractors

Q Li, G Tur, D Hakkani-Tür, X Li, T Paek… - 2014 IEEE Spoken …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Traditional spoken dialog systems are usually based on a centralized architecture, in which
the number of domains is predefined, and the provider is fixed for a given domain and intent …