Daniela Gerz

On the Relation between Linguistic Typology and (Limitations of) Multilingual Language Modeling

2018

A key challenge in cross-lingual NLP is developing general language-independent architectures that are equally applicable to any language. However, this ambition is largely hampered by the variation in structural and semantic properties, i.e. the typological …

Training Neural Response Selection for Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems

2019 · arXiv (Cornell University)

Despite their popularity in the chatbot literature, retrieval-based models have had modest impact on task-oriented dialogue systems, with the main obstacle to their application being the low-data regime of most task-oriented dialogue tasks. Inspired by …