no code implementations • 15 Feb 2024 • Yinhong Liu, Yimai Fang, David Vandyke, Nigel Collier
In light of recent advances in large language models (LLMs), the expectations for the next generation of virtual assistants include enhanced naturalness and adaptability across diverse usage scenarios.
no code implementations • CAI (COLING) 2022 • Josef Valvoda, Yimai Fang, David Vandyke
Dialog modelling faces a difficult trade-off.
2 code implementations • Findings (EMNLP) 2021 • Yixuan Su, David Vandyke, Sihui Wang, Yimai Fang, Nigel Collier
However, the lack of ability of neural models to control the structure of generated output can be limiting in certain real-world applications.
1 code implementation • ACL 2020 • Bo-Hsiang Tseng, Jianpeng Cheng, Yimai Fang, David Vandyke
This approach allows us to explore both spaces of natural language and formal representations, and facilitates information sharing through the latent space to eventually benefit NLU and NLG.
Natural Language Understanding Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems +1
no code implementations • COLING 2016 • Yimai Fang, Haoyue Zhu, Ewa Muszy{\'n}ska, Alex Kuhnle, er, Simone Teufel
It is a further development of an existing summariser that has an incremental, proposition-based content selection process but lacks a natural language (NL) generator for the final output.