no code implementations • SIGDIAL (ACL) 2022 • Benjamin Kane, Felix Gervits, Matthias Scheutz, Matthew Marge
We evaluate the system by comparing learning efficiency to a human baseline in a collaborative reference resolution task and show that the system is effective and efficient in learning new concepts, and that it can informatively generate explanations about its behavior.
no code implementations • ReInAct 2021 • Georgiy Platonov, Benjamin Kane, Lenhart Schubert
As AI reaches wider adoption, designing systems that are explainable and interpretable becomes a critical necessity.
no code implementations • 10 Oct 2023 • Benjamin Kane, Lenhart Schubert
In many NLP applications that involve interpreting sentences within a rich context -- for instance, information retrieval systems or dialogue systems -- it is desirable to be able to preserve the sentence in a form that can be readily understood without context, for later reuse -- a process known as ``decontextualization''.
1 code implementation • 10 Oct 2023 • Benjamin Kane, Lenhart Schubert
We capture such habitual knowledge using an explicit schema representation, and propose an approach to dialogue generation that retrieves relevant schemas to condition a large language model to generate persona-based responses.
no code implementations • 15 Jul 2022 • Benjamin Kane, Catherine Giugno, Lenhart Schubert, Kurtis Haut, Caleb Wohn, Ehsan Hoque
A schema-guided approach to dialogue management has been shown in recent work to be effective in creating robust customizable virtual agents capable of acting as friendly peers or task assistants.
1 code implementation • Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics 2020 • William Gantt, Benjamin Kane, Aaron Steven White
There is growing evidence that the prevalence of disagreement in the raw annotations used to construct natural language inference datasets makes the common practice of aggregating those annotations to a single label problematic.
no code implementations • 26 May 2020 • Benjamin Kane, Georgiy Platonov, Lenhart K. Schubert
It is essential for dialogue-based spatial reasoning systems to maintain memory of historical states of the world.
no code implementations • SIGDIAL (ACL) 2020 • Georgiy Platonov, Benjamin Kane, Aaron Gindi, Lenhart K. Schubert
The blocks world is a classic toy domain that has long been used to build and test spatial reasoning systems.
no code implementations • WS 2019 • Gene Kim, Benjamin Kane, Viet Duong, Muskaan Mendiratta, Graeme McGuire, Sophie Sackstein, Georgiy Platonov, Lenhart Schubert
Abstract Unscoped episodic logical form (ULF) is a semantic representation capturing the predicate-argument structure of English within the episodic logic formalism in relation to the syntactic structure, while leaving scope, word sense, and anaphora unresolved.
no code implementations • 20 Jan 2019 • S. Zahra Razavi, Lenhart K. Schubert, Benjamin Kane, Mohammad Rafayet Ali, Kimberly Van Orden, Tianyi Ma
We address the problem of designing a conversational avatar capable of a sequence of casual conversations with older adults.