Members of the SLIM group have two poster (2-page extended abstract) papers accepted to SemDial 2017 which will take place in Saarbrücken, Germany in August.
Title: Towards a Dialogue System with Long-term, Episodic Memory
Authors: Dan Kondratyuk and Casey Kennington
Abstract: Intelligent personal assistants lack long-term memory. We propose graph databases as a extensible solution to this problem by representing relevant knowledge as entities, properties, and relations between them. We demonstrate through two experiments that our approach lends itself to a system that can improve natural language understanding by updating its knowledge dynamically in a generalizable and interpretable fashion.
Title: Incremental Processing for Neural Conversation Models
Authors: Pierre Lison and Casey Kennington
Abstract: We present a simple approach to adapt neural conversation models to incremental processing. The approach is validated with a proof-of-concept experiment in a visual reference resolution task.