Alexa Prize Socialbot Grand Challenge: Yet another year of progression in conversational AI

2019
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Building conversational systems that enable natural language interactions with machines has been an attractive research area since the early days of computing, as exemplified by earlier text-based systems such as ELIZA [Weizenbaum, 1966]. The research and development work in this area has been increasing since then, with many publications on both task-oriented [Hosseini-Asl et al, 2020; Papangelis et al, 2020; Vlasov et al, 2019; Zhang et al, 2019, among others] and open-domain [Adiwardana et al, 2020; Roller et al, 2020; Yavuz et al, 2019; among others] dialogue applications. Recent advances in deep learning, and especially Transformer based language models also enabled building large chatbot models, using conversational data mined from the web.

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