Y-Lan Boureau

Recipes for Building an Open-Domain Chatbot

2021

Stephen Roller, Emily Dinan, Naman Goyal, Da Ju, Mary Williamson, Yinhan Liu, Jing Xu, Myle Ott, Eric Michael Smith, Y-Lan Boureau, Jason Weston. Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association …

Controlling Style in Generated Dialogue

2020 · arXiv (Cornell University)

Open-domain conversation models have become good at generating natural-sounding dialogue, using very large architectures with billions of trainable parameters. The vast training data required to train these architectures aggregates many different styles, tones, and qualities. …