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Brendan King

3 accepted papers

2025

In Search of the Lost Arch in Dialogue: A Dependency Dialogue Acts Corpus for Multi-Party Dialogues

ACL 2025finding

Understanding the structure of multi-party conversation and the intentions and dialogue acts of each speaker remains a significant challenge in NLP. While a number of corpora annotated using theoretical frameworks of dialogue have been proposed, these typically focus on either utterance-level labeli…

2024

Unsupervised End-to-End Task-Oriented Dialogue with LLMs: The Power of the Noisy Channel

EMNLP 2024main

Training task-oriented dialogue systems typically requires turn-level annotations for interacting with their APIs: e.g. a dialogue state and the system actions taken at each step. These annotations can be costly to produce, error-prone, and require both domain and annotation expertise. With advances…

2023

Diverse Retrieval-Augmented In-Context Learning for Dialogue State Tracking

ACL 2023findings

There has been significant interest in zero and few-shot learning for dialogue state tracking (DST) due to the high cost of collecting and annotating task-oriented dialogues. Recent work has demonstrated that in-context learning requires very little data and zero parameter updates, and even outperfo…