Conversational AI: The Science Behind the Alexa Prize

By | 2018-01-16T20:03:00+00:00 December 12th, 2017|AI, NLP, Machine Learning, Emerging Tech - AR, Cloud, Blockchain|

Much work remains in the area of social conversation as well as free-form conversation over a broad range of domains and topics. To advance the state of the art in conversational AI, Amazon launched the Alexa Prize, a 2.5-million-dollar university […]

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On Evaluating and Comparing Conversational Agents

By | 2018-01-16T08:05:15+00:00 November 27th, 2017|AI, NLP, Machine Learning|

The subjectivity associated with evaluating conversations is a key element underlying the challenge of building non-goal oriented dialogue systems. This paper proposes a comprehensive evaluation strategy with multiple metrics designed to reduce subjectivity by selecting metrics which correlate well with […]

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