Hannes Schulz

Towards Deep Conversational Recommendations

2018 · PolyPublie (École Polytechnique de Montréal)

There has been growing interest in using neural networks and deep learning techniques to create dialogue systems. Conversational recommendation is an interesting setting for the scientific exploration of dialogue with natural language as the associated …

The KnowRef Coreference Corpus: Removing Gender and Number Cues for Difficult Pronominal Anaphora Resolution

2019

We introduce a new benchmark for coreference resolution and NLI, KNOWREF, that targets common-sense understanding and world knowledge. Previous coreference resolution tasks can largely be solved by exploiting the number and gender of the antecedents, …

Relevance of Unsupervised Metrics in Task-Oriented Dialogue for Evaluating Natural Language Generation

2017 · arXiv (Cornell University)

Automated metrics such as BLEU are widely used in the machine translation literature. They have also been used recently in the dialogue community for evaluating dialogue response generation. However, previous work in dialogue response generation …