Yanchao Yu

An Incremental Dialogue System for Learning Visually Grounded Language (demonstration system)

2016 · Edinburgh Napier Research Repository (Edinburgh Napier University)

We present a multi-modal dialogue system for interactive learning of perceptually grounded word meanings from a human tutor. The system integrates an incremental, semantic, and bi-directional grammar framework – Dynamic Syntax and Type Theory with …

Alana: Social Dialogue using an Ensemble Model and a Ranker trained on User Feedback

2017 · Edinburgh Napier Research Repository (Edinburgh Napier University)

We describe our Alexa prize system (called ‘Alana’) which consists of an ensemble of bots, combining rule-based and machine learning systems, and using a contextual ranking mechanism to choose system responses. This paper reports on …