EMNLP 2021system demonstrations12 citations
Athena 2.0: Contextualized Dialogue Management for an Alexa Prize SocialBot
Juraj Juraska, Kevin Bowden, Lena Reed, Vrindavan Harrison, Wen Cui, Omkar Patil, Rishi Rajasekaran, Angela Ramirez
Abstract
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 conversations with every interaction. Here we describe Athena’s system design and performance in the Alexa Prize during the 20/21 competition. A live demo of Athena as well as video recordings will provoke discussion on the state of the art in conversational AI.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{walker-etal-2021-athena,
title = "Athena 2.0: Contextualized Dialogue Management for an {A}lexa {P}rize {S}ocial{B}ot",
author = "Juraska, Juraj and
Bowden, Kevin and
Reed, Lena and
Harrison, Vrindavan and
Cui, Wen and
Patil, Omkar and
Rajasekaran, Rishi and
Ramirez, Angela and
Li, Cecilia and
Zamora, Eduardo and
Lee, Phillip and
Bheemanpally, Jeshwanth and
Pandey, Rohan and
Ratnaparkhi, Adwait and
Walker, Marilyn",
editor = "Adel, Heike and
Shi, Shuming",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations",
month = nov,
year = "2021",
address = "Online and Punta Cana, Dominican Republic",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2021.emnlp-demo.15/",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2021.emnlp-demo.15",
pages = "124--133"
}