Jack Urbanek

I love your chain mail! Making knights smile in a fantasy game world:\n Open-domain goal-oriented dialogue agents

2020 · arXiv (Cornell University)

Dialogue research tends to distinguish between chit-chat and goal-oriented\ntasks. While the former is arguably more naturalistic and has a wider use of\nlanguage, the latter has clearer metrics and a straightforward learning signal.\nHumans effortlessly combine the …

Personalizing Dialogue Agents: I have a dog, do you have pets too?

2018 · arXiv (Cornell University)

Chit-chat models are known to have several problems: they lack specificity, do not display a consistent personality and are often not very captivating. In this work we present the task of making chit-chat more engaging …