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Kevin Bowden

2 accepted papers

2024

Active Listening: Personalized Question Generation in Open-Domain Social Conversation with User Model Based Prompting

EMNLP 2024finding

Large language models (LLMs) capable of casual conversation have recently become widely available. We hypothesize that users of conversational systems want a more personalized experience, and existing work shows that users are highly receptive to personalized questions (PQs). Question Generation tas…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2021

Athena 2.0: Contextualized Dialogue Management for an Alexa Prize SocialBot

EMNLP 2021system demonstrations

Athena 2.0 is an Alexa Prize SocialBot that has been a finalist in the last two Alexa Prize Grand Challenges. One reason for Athena’s success is its novel dialogue management strategy, which allows it to dynamically construct dialogues and responses from component modules, leading to novel conversat…

Cited by 12SourcePDFScholar