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 …

Dialogue agents for artificial intelligence-based conversational systems for cognitively disabled: A systematic review

SM Huq, R Maskeliūnas… - Disability and …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Purpose We present a systematic literature review of dialogue agents for Artificial
Intelligence (AI) and agent-based conversational systems dealing with cognitive disability of …

Rasa: Open source language understanding and dialogue management

T Bocklisch, J Faulkner, N Pawlowski… - ar**
Z Yan, N Duan, P Chen, M Zhou, J Zhou… - Proceedings of the AAAI …, 2017 - ojs.aaai.org
We present a general solution towards building task-oriented dialogue systems for online
shop**, aiming to assist online customers in completing various purchase-related tasks …

Belief tracking and action selection in spoken dialog systems

R Gupta, D Ramachandran, A Raux, N Mehta… - US Patent …, 2014 - Google Patents
An action is performed in a spoken dialog system in response to a user's spoken utterance.
A policy which maps belief states of user intent to actions is retrieved or created. A belief …

[PDF][PDF] Pydial: A multi-domain statistical dialogue system toolkit

S Ultes, LMR Barahona, PH Su… - Proceedings of ACL …, 2017 - aclanthology.org
Abstract Statistical Spoken Dialogue Systems have been around for many years. However,
access to these systems has always been difficult as there is still no publicly available end-to …

Adding communicative and affective strategies to an embodied conversational agent to enhance second language learners' willingness to communicate

E Ayedoun, Y Hayashi, K Seta - International Journal of Artificial …, 2019 - Springer
This paper describes an embodied conversational agent enhanced with specific
conversational strategies aiming to foster learners' readiness towards communication in a …

Iris: A conversational agent for complex tasks

E Fast, B Chen, J Mendelsohn, J Bassen… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Today, most conversational agents are limited to simple tasks supported by standalone
commands, such as getting directions or scheduling an appointment. To support more …