Best Paper Awards

Best Paper

• Human Evaluation of Conversations is an Open Problem: comparing the sensitivity of various methods for evaluating dialogue agents

Eric Michael Smith, Orion Hsu, Rebecca Qian, Stephen Roller, Y-Lan Boureau, Jason E Weston

Outstanding Papers

• RetroNLU: Retrieval Augmented Task-Oriented Semantic Parsing

Vivek Gupta, Akshat Shrivastava, Adithya Sagar, Armen Aghajanyan, Denis Savenkov

• Understanding and Improving the Exemplar-based Generation for Open-domain Conversation

Seungju Han, Beomsu Kim, Seokjun Seo, Enkhbayar Erdenee, Buru Chang

Oral Papers

Conversational AI for Positive-sum Retailing under Falsehood Control

Yin-Hsiang Liao, Ruo-Ping Dong, Huan-Cheng Chang, Wilson Ma

Human Evaluation of Conversations is an Open Problem: comparing the sensitivity of various methods for evaluating dialogue agents

Eric Michael Smith, Orion Hsu, Rebecca Qian, Stephen Roller, Y-Lan Boureau, Jason E Weston

KG-CRuSE: Recurrent Walks over Knowledge Graph for Explainable Conversation Reasoning using Semantic Embeddings

Rajdeep Sarkar, Mihael Arcan, John Philip McCrae

Multimodal Conversational AI: A Survey of Datasets and Approaches

Anirudh S Sundar, Larry Heck

RetroNLU: Retrieval Augmented Task-Oriented Semantic Parsing

Vivek Gupta, Akshat Shrivastava, Adithya Sagar, Armen Aghajanyan, Denis Savenkov

Understanding and Improving the Exemplar-based Generation for Open-domain Conversation

Seungju Han, Beomsu Kim, Seokjun Seo, Enkhbayar Erdenee, Buru Chang

Poster Papers

Extracting and Inferring Personal Attributes from Dialogue

Zhilin Wang, Xuhui Zhou, Rik Koncel-Kedziorski, Alex Marin, Fei Xia

From Rewriting to Remembering: Common Ground for Conversational QA Models

Marco Del Tredici, Xiaoyu Shen, Gianni Barlacchi, Bill Byrne, Adrià de Gispert

D-REX: Dialogue Relation Extraction with Explanations

Alon Albalak, Varun R. Embar, Yi-Lin Tuan, Lise Getoor, William Yang Wang

A Randomized Link Transformer for Diverse Open-Domain Dialogue Generation

Jing Yang Lee, Kong Aik Lee, Woon Seng Gan

Knowledge Distillation Meets Few-Shot Learning: An Approach for Few-Shot Intent Classification Within and Across Domains

Anna Sauer, Shima Asaadi, Fabian Kuech

Relevance in Dialogue: Is Less More? An Empirical Comparison of Existing Metrics, and a Novel Simple Metric

Ian Berlot-Attwell, Frank Rudzicz

Stylistic Response Generation by Controlling Personality Traits and Intent

Sougata Saha, Souvik Das, Rohini Srihari

Open-domain Dialogue Generation: What We Can Do, Cannot Do, And Should Do Next

Katharina Kann, Abteen Ebrahimi, Joewie J. Koh, Shiran Dudy, Alessandro Roncone

MTL-SLT: Multi-Task Learning for Spoken Language Tasks

Zhiqi Huang, Milind Rao, Anirudh Raju, Zhe Zhang, Bach Bui, Chul Lee

Data Augmentation for Intent Classification with Off-the-shelf Large Language Models

Gaurav Sahu, Pau Rodriguez, Issam H. Laradji, Parmida Atighehchian, David Vazquez, Dzmitry Bahdanau

Toward Knowledge-Enriched Conversational Recommendation Systems

Tong Zhang, Yong Liu, Boyang Li, Peixiang Zhong, Chen Zhang, Hao Wang, Chunyan Miao

Are Pre-trained Transformers Robust in Intent Classification? A Missing Ingredient in Evaluation of Out-of-Scope Intent Detection

Jianguo Zhang, Kazuma Hashimoto, Yao Wan, Zhiwei Liu, Ye Liu, Caiming Xiong, Philip S. Yu