We are interested in exploring the capabilities of socialbots “in the wild”. This involves solving two problems: first, generating (domain relevant) content for the conversation and second, managing the spoken language conversation itself.
Li-Wei Chen - Team leader
Chen is a PhD student in the Language Technology Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. His research interest is in speech processing, natural language processing, and applying machine learning to these disciplines.
Ta-Chung Chi
Chi is a fourth-year PhD student at the Language Technologies Institute in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. Chi's research interests lie in the field of dialogue system and related natural language processing topics.
Ziyuan Liu
Liu is a masters student at CMU. He has worked on projects in spoken dialog systems, recommender systems, and applications of Deep RL in game theory. As an undergraduate, he was a member of the Preferred.AI recommendation systems lab in Singapore Management University.
Alexander Rudnicky - Faculty advisor
Alex Rudnicky has been working in speech recognition, spoken language understanding and dialog systems for the past 2 decades. His interests include conversational AI and learning though spoken language interaction.
