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NeurIPS 2020: Key Research Papers in Natural Language Processing (NLP) & Conversational AI

December 1, 2020 by Kate Koidan

NLP at NeurIPS 2020

NeurIPS is the largest machine learning conference held every December. It brings together researchers in computational neuroscience, reinforcement learning, deep learning, and their applications such as computer vision, fairness and transparency, natural language processing, robotics, and more.Our team reviewed the papers accepted to NeurIPS 2020 and shortlisted the most … [Read more...] about NeurIPS 2020: Key Research Papers in Natural Language Processing (NLP) & Conversational AI

Evaluation Metrics For Dialog Systems

October 14, 2020 by Kate Koidan

dialog agent evaluation

Evaluation is a crucial part of the dialog system development process. Human judgment is considered a gold standard for the evaluation of dialog agents. However, this is also a very expensive and time-intensive approach. Thus, researchers mostly rely on automatic metrics when developing dialog systems.In this article, we’ll introduce a brief overview of the key evaluation … [Read more...] about Evaluation Metrics For Dialog Systems

Key Dialog Datasets: Overview and Critique

October 13, 2020 by Kate Koidan

dialog datasets

To build a state-of-the-art dialog system, you need challenging tasks for model training and evaluation. There are numerous dialog datasets that assist researchers in building task-oriented and chit-chat dialog agents. In particular, the Facebook Research team has introduced a framework, called ParlAI (pronounced par-lay), where they’ve gathered together 80+ popular dialog … [Read more...] about Key Dialog Datasets: Overview and Critique

Task-Oriented Dialog Agents: Recent Advances and Challenges

October 6, 2020 by Kate Koidan

pipeline dialog systems

Hotel bookings, weather queries, restaurant reservations – chatbots and virtual assistants seem to be the perfect solution for these kinds of routine inquiries. Not surprisingly, task-oriented dialog systems that support these chatbots have become a hot topic in the AI and NLP research community.In this article, we will review the recent research breakthroughs in … [Read more...] about Task-Oriented Dialog Agents: Recent Advances and Challenges

The Latest Breakthroughs in Conversational AI Agents

October 1, 2020 by Mariya Yao

open-domain chatbots

2020 is the breakthrough year for conversational agents. First, Google’s chatbot Meena and Facebook’s chatbot Blender demonstrated that dialog agents can achieve close to human-level performance in certain tasks. Then, OpenAI’s GPT-3 model made lots of people wonder whether Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is already here. While we are still a long way off true AGI, … [Read more...] about The Latest Breakthroughs in Conversational AI Agents

State-of-the-art Approaches to Building Open-Domain Conversational Agents

September 28, 2020 by Mariya Yao

open-domain chatbots

This research summary is part of our Conversational AI series which covers the latest AI & machine learning approaches in the following areas:Open-domain chatbotsTask-oriented chatbotsDialog datasetsEvaluation metricsIn this piece, we start by covering the cutting-edge approaches to building open-domain dialog agents.2020 is the breakthrough year for open-domain … [Read more...] about State-of-the-art Approaches to Building Open-Domain Conversational Agents

Key Research Advances in Building Task-Oriented Dialog Agents

September 28, 2020 by Mariya Yao

task oriented chatbots

This research summary is part of our Conversational AI series which covers the latest AI & machine learning approaches in the following areas:Open-domain chatbotsTask-oriented chatbotsDialog datasetsEvaluation metricsIn this research summary, we feature some of the most interesting novel approaches to improving the performance of task-oriented, or goal-oriented, … [Read more...] about Key Research Advances in Building Task-Oriented Dialog Agents

Novel Datasets For Open-Domain & Task-Oriented Dialogs

September 28, 2020 by Mariya Yao

dialog datasets

This research summary is part of our Conversational AI series which covers the latest AI & machine learning approaches in the following areas:Open-domain chatbotsTask-oriented chatbotsDialog datasetsEvaluation metricsIn this post, we review the recently introduced datasets for training, validating, and evaluating dialog systems.Recent progress in language … [Read more...] about Novel Datasets For Open-Domain & Task-Oriented Dialogs

New Ways to Evaluate Open-Domain Conversational Agents

September 28, 2020 by Mariya Yao

dialog system evaluation

This research summary is part of our Conversational AI series which covers the latest AI & machine learning approaches in the following areas:Open-domain chatbotsTask-oriented chatbotsDialog datasetsEvaluation metricsIn this last part of the series, we discuss the latest approaches to evaluation of dialog agents.Evaluating open-domain dialog agents remains a … [Read more...] about New Ways to Evaluate Open-Domain Conversational Agents

10 Important Research Papers In Conversational AI From 2019

November 19, 2019 by Mariya Yao

TOP Conversational AI Papers

Conversational AI is becoming an integral part of business practice across industries. More companies are adopting the advantages chatbots bring to customer service, sales, and marketing.Even though chatbots are becoming a “must-have” asset for leading businesses, their performance is still very far from human. Researchers from major research institutions and tech leaders … [Read more...] about 10 Important Research Papers In Conversational AI From 2019

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