Ivan Koychev

Building Chatbots from Forum Data: Model Selection Using Question Answering Metrics

2017 · arXiv (Cornell University)

We propose to use question answering (QA) data from Web forums to train chatbots from scratch, i.e., without dialog training data. First, we extract pairs of question and answer sentences from the typically much longer …

Finding People's Professions and Nationalities Using Distant Supervision - The FMI@SU "goosefoot" team at the WSDM Cup 2017 Triple Scoring Task

2017 · arXiv (Cornell University)

We describe the system that our FMI@SU student's team built for participating in the Triple Scoring task at the WSDM Cup 2017. Given a triple from a "type-like" relation, profession or nationality, the goal is …