Harm de Vries

End-to-end optimization of goal-driven and visually grounded dialogue systems

2017 · arXiv (Cornell University)

End-to-end design of dialogue systems has recently become a popular research topic thanks to powerful tools such as encoder-decoder architectures for sequence-to-sequence learning. Yet, most current approaches cast human-machine dialogue management as a supervised learning …

Towards Ecologically Valid Research on Language User Interfaces

2020 · arXiv (Cornell University)

Language User Interfaces (LUIs) could improve human-machine interaction for a wide variety of tasks, such as playing music, getting insights from databases, or instructing domestic robots. In contrast to traditional hand-crafted approaches, recent work attempts …