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Baber Khalid

3 accepted papers

2021

COSMic: A Coherence-Aware Generation Metric for Image Descriptions

EMNLP 2021finding

Developers of text generation models rely on automated evaluation metrics as a stand-in for slow and expensive manual evaluations. However, image captioning metrics have struggled to give accurate learned estimates of the semantic and pragmatic success of output text. We address this weakness by int…

2020

Combining Cognitive Modeling and Reinforcement Learning for Clarification in Dialogue

COLING 2020main

In many domains, dialogue systems need to work collaboratively with users to successfully reconstruct the meaning the user had in mind. In this paper, we show how cognitive models of users’ communicative strategies can be leveraged in a reinforcement learning approach to dialogue planning to enable…

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