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James D. Finch

3 accepted papers

2024

Diverse and Effective Synthetic Data Generation for Adaptable Zero-Shot Dialogue State Tracking

EMNLP 2024finding

We demonstrate substantial performance gains in zero-shot dialogue state tracking (DST) by enhancing training data diversity through synthetic data generation.Existing DST datasets are severely limited in the number of application domains and slot types they cover due to the high costs of data colle…

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2024

Exploring the Impact of Human Evaluator Group on Chat-Oriented Dialogue Evaluation

COLING 2024main

Human evaluation has been widely accepted as the standard for evaluating chat-oriented dialogue systems. However, there is a significant variation in previous work regarding who gets recruited as evaluators. Evaluator groups such as domain experts, university students, and crowdworkers have been use…

2023

Don’t Forget Your ABC’s: Evaluating the State-of-the-Art in Chat-Oriented Dialogue Systems

ACL 2023long

Despite tremendous advancements in dialogue systems, stable evaluation still requires human judgments producing notoriously high-variance metrics due to their inherent subjectivity. Moreover, methods and labels in dialogue evaluation are not fully standardized, especially for open-domain chats, with…