no code implementations • 21 Oct 2021 • Marilyn Walker, Colin Harmon, James Graupera, Davan Harrison, Steve Whittaker
Here we develop a PARADISE model for predicting the performance of Athena, a dialogue system that has participated in thousands of conversations with real users, while competing as a finalist in the Alexa Prize.
no code implementations • 21 Nov 2020 • Vrindavan Harrison, Juraj Juraska, Wen Cui, Lena Reed, Kevin K. Bowden, Jiaqi Wu, Brian Schwarzmann, Abteen Ebrahimi, Rishi Rajasekaran, Nikhil Varghese, Max Wechsler-Azen, Steve Whittaker, Jeffrey Flanigan, Marilyn Walker
This report describes Athena, a dialogue system for spoken conversation on popular topics and current events.
no code implementations • 13 Aug 2019 • Kevin K. Bowden, Jiaqi Wu, Wen Cui, Juraj Juraska, Vrindavan Harrison, Brian Schwarzmann, Nicholas Santer, Steve Whittaker, Marilyn Walker
In contrast, search and general Chit-Chat induced coverage problems; here users found it hard to infer what topics SB could understand, with these conversations seen as being too system-driven.
no code implementations • 16 Feb 2019 • Jiaqi Wu, Ryan Compton, Geetanjali Rakshit, Marilyn Walker, Pranav Anand, Steve Whittaker
Our results indicate that generic characteristics are shared between the classes of agency, social and concepts, suggesting it should be possible to build general models for affective classification tasks.
no code implementations • WS 2015 • Shereen Oraby, Lena Reed, Ryan Compton, Ellen Riloff, Marilyn Walker, Steve Whittaker
We investigate the characteristics of factual and emotional argumentation styles observed in online debates.
no code implementations • WS 2017 • Jiaqi Wu, Marilyn Walker, Pranav Anand, Steve Whittaker
Our goal is to ground the linguistic descriptions of events that users experience in theories of well-being and happiness, and then examine the extent to which different theoretical accounts can explain the variance in the happiness scores.
no code implementations • EACL 2017 • Stephanie M. Lukin, Pranav Anand, Marilyn Walker, Steve Whittaker
Americans spend about a third of their time online, with many participating in online conversations on social and political issues.