Jeffrey P. Bigham

Target-Guided Dialogue Response Generation Using Commonsense and Data Augmentation

2022 · Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2022

Target-guided response generation enables dialogue systems to smoothly transition a conversation from a dialogue context toward a target sentence. Such control is useful for designing dialogue systems that direct a conversation toward specific goals, such …

Downstream Datasets Make Surprisingly Good Pretraining Corpora

2023

For most natural language processing tasks, the dominant practice is to finetune large pretrained transformer models (e.g., BERT) using smaller downstream datasets.Despite the success of this approach, it remains unclear to what extent these gainsare …