The technology behind personal digital assistants: An overview of the system architecture and key components

R Sarikaya - IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We have long envisioned that one day computers will understand natural language and
anticipate what we need, when and where we need it, and proactively complete tasks on our …

An overview of end-to-end language understanding and dialog management for personal digital assistants

R Sarikaya, PA Crook, A Marin, M Jeong… - 2016 ieee spoken …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Spoken language understanding and dialog management have emerged as key
technologies in interacting with personal digital assistants (PDAs). The coverage …

Leveraging sentence-level information with encoder lstm for semantic slot filling

G Kurata, B Xiang, B Zhou, M Yu - arXiv preprint arXiv:1601.01530, 2016 - arxiv.org
Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) and one of its specific architectures, Long Short-Term
Memory (LSTM), have been widely used for sequence labeling. In this paper, we first …

Predicting user intents and satisfaction with dialogue-based conversational recommendations

W Cai, L Chen - Proceedings of the 28th ACM Conference on User …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
To develop a multi-turn dialogue-based conversational recommender system (DCRS), it is
important to predict users' intents behind their utterances and their satisfaction with the …

Scaling multi-domain dialogue state tracking via query reformulation

P Rastogi, A Gupta, T Chen, L Mathias - arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.05164, 2019 - arxiv.org
We present a novel approach to dialogue state tracking and referring expression resolution
tasks. Successful contextual understanding of multi-turn spoken dialogues requires …

XAINES: Explaining AI with narratives

M Hartmann, H Du, N Feldhus, I Kruijff-Korbayová… - KI-Künstliche …, 2022 - Springer
Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems are increasingly pervasive: Internet of Things, in-car
intelligent devices, robots, and virtual assistants, and their large-scale adoption makes it …

Fasttext-based intent detection for inflected languages

K Balodis, D Deksne - Information, 2019 - mdpi.com
Intent detection is one of the main tasks of a dialogue system. In this paper, we present our
intent detection system that is based on fastText word embeddings and a neural network …

Dialogue session segmentation by embedding-enhanced texttiling

Y Song, L Mou, R Yan, L Yi, Z Zhu, X Hu… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2016 - arxiv.org
In human-computer conversation systems, the context of a user-issued utterance is
particularly important because it provides useful background information of the conversation …

Intent detection problem solving via automatic DNN hyperparameter optimization

J Kapočiūtė-Dzikienė, K Balodis, R Skadiņš - Applied Sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Accurate intent detection-based chatbots are usually trained on larger datasets that are not
available for some languages. Seeking the most accurate models, three English benchmark …

A hybrid architecture for multi-party conversational systems

MG de Bayser, P Cavalin, R Souza, A Braz… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2017 - arxiv.org
Multi-party Conversational Systems are systems with natural language interaction between
one or more people or systems. From the moment that an utterance is sent to a group, to the …