Get our free extension to see links to code for papers anywhere online!

Chrome logo Add to Chrome

Firefox logo Add to Firefox
Picture for Kevin K. Bowden

Kevin K. Bowden

Athena 2.0: Contextualized Dialogue Management for an Alexa Prize SocialBot


Nov 03, 2021
Juraj Juraska, Kevin K. Bowden, Lena Reed, Vrindavan Harrison, Wen Cui, Omkar Patil, Rishi Rajasekaran, Angela Ramirez, Cecilia Li, Eduardo Zamora, Phillip Lee, Jeshwanth Bheemanpally, Rohan Pandey, Adwait Ratnaparkhi, Marilyn Walker

Figure 1 for Athena 2.0: Contextualized Dialogue Management for an Alexa Prize SocialBot
Figure 2 for Athena 2.0: Contextualized Dialogue Management for an Alexa Prize SocialBot
Figure 3 for Athena 2.0: Contextualized Dialogue Management for an Alexa Prize SocialBot
Figure 4 for Athena 2.0: Contextualized Dialogue Management for an Alexa Prize SocialBot
* Accepted to EMNLP 2021 System Demonstrations 
  Access Paper or Ask Questions

Athena: Constructing Dialogues Dynamically with Discourse Constraints


Nov 21, 2020
Vrindavan Harrison, Juraj Juraska, Wen Cui, Lena Reed, Kevin K. Bowden, Jiaqi Wu, Brian Schwarzmann, Abteen Ebrahimi, Rishi Rajasekaran, Nikhil Varghese, Max Wechsler-Azen, Steve Whittaker, Jeffrey Flanigan, Marilyn Walker

Figure 1 for Athena: Constructing Dialogues Dynamically with Discourse Constraints
Figure 2 for Athena: Constructing Dialogues Dynamically with Discourse Constraints
Figure 3 for Athena: Constructing Dialogues Dynamically with Discourse Constraints
Figure 4 for Athena: Constructing Dialogues Dynamically with Discourse Constraints
* 3rd Proceedings of Alexa Prize (Alexa Prize 2019) 
  Access Paper or Ask Questions

ViGGO: A Video Game Corpus for Data-To-Text Generation in Open-Domain Conversation


Oct 26, 2019
Juraj Juraska, Kevin K. Bowden, Marilyn Walker

Figure 1 for ViGGO: A Video Game Corpus for Data-To-Text Generation in Open-Domain Conversation
Figure 2 for ViGGO: A Video Game Corpus for Data-To-Text Generation in Open-Domain Conversation
Figure 3 for ViGGO: A Video Game Corpus for Data-To-Text Generation in Open-Domain Conversation
Figure 4 for ViGGO: A Video Game Corpus for Data-To-Text Generation in Open-Domain Conversation
* Accepted to INLG 2019 
  Access Paper or Ask Questions

Entertaining and Opinionated but Too Controlling: A Large-Scale User Study of an Open Domain Alexa Prize System


Aug 13, 2019
Kevin K. Bowden, Jiaqi Wu, Wen Cui, Juraj Juraska, Vrindavan Harrison, Brian Schwarzmann, Nicholas Santer, Steve Whittaker, Marilyn Walker

Figure 1 for Entertaining and Opinionated but Too Controlling: A Large-Scale User Study of an Open Domain Alexa Prize System
Figure 2 for Entertaining and Opinionated but Too Controlling: A Large-Scale User Study of an Open Domain Alexa Prize System
Figure 3 for Entertaining and Opinionated but Too Controlling: A Large-Scale User Study of an Open Domain Alexa Prize System
Figure 4 for Entertaining and Opinionated but Too Controlling: A Large-Scale User Study of an Open Domain Alexa Prize System
* To appear in 1st International Conference on Conversational User Interfaces (CUI 2019) 
  Access Paper or Ask Questions

SlugBot: Developing a Computational Model andFramework of a Novel Dialogue Genre


Jul 22, 2019
Kevin K. Bowden, Jiaqi Wu, Wen Cui, Juraj Juraska, Vrindavan Harrison, Brian Schwarzmann, Nick Santer, Marilyn Walker

Figure 1 for SlugBot: Developing a Computational Model andFramework of a Novel Dialogue Genre
Figure 2 for SlugBot: Developing a Computational Model andFramework of a Novel Dialogue Genre
Figure 3 for SlugBot: Developing a Computational Model andFramework of a Novel Dialogue Genre
Figure 4 for SlugBot: Developing a Computational Model andFramework of a Novel Dialogue Genre
* arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1801.01531 
  Access Paper or Ask Questions

Implicit Discourse Relation Identification for Open-domain Dialogues


Jul 09, 2019
Mingyu Derek Ma, Kevin K. Bowden, Jiaqi Wu, Wen Cui, Marilyn Walker

Figure 1 for Implicit Discourse Relation Identification for Open-domain Dialogues
Figure 2 for Implicit Discourse Relation Identification for Open-domain Dialogues
Figure 3 for Implicit Discourse Relation Identification for Open-domain Dialogues
* To appear in Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL2019) 
  Access Paper or Ask Questions

A Deep Ensemble Model with Slot Alignment for Sequence-to-Sequence Natural Language Generation


May 16, 2018
Juraj Juraska, Panagiotis Karagiannis, Kevin K. Bowden, Marilyn A. Walker

Figure 1 for A Deep Ensemble Model with Slot Alignment for Sequence-to-Sequence Natural Language Generation
Figure 2 for A Deep Ensemble Model with Slot Alignment for Sequence-to-Sequence Natural Language Generation
Figure 3 for A Deep Ensemble Model with Slot Alignment for Sequence-to-Sequence Natural Language Generation
Figure 4 for A Deep Ensemble Model with Slot Alignment for Sequence-to-Sequence Natural Language Generation
* Accepted to NAACL 2018 
  Access Paper or Ask Questions

SlugNERDS: A Named Entity Recognition Tool for Open Domain Dialogue Systems


May 10, 2018
Kevin K. Bowden, Jiaqi Wu, Shereen Oraby, Amita Misra, Marilyn Walker

Figure 1 for SlugNERDS: A Named Entity Recognition Tool for Open Domain Dialogue Systems
Figure 2 for SlugNERDS: A Named Entity Recognition Tool for Open Domain Dialogue Systems
Figure 3 for SlugNERDS: A Named Entity Recognition Tool for Open Domain Dialogue Systems
Figure 4 for SlugNERDS: A Named Entity Recognition Tool for Open Domain Dialogue Systems
* Kevin K. Bowden, Jiaqi Wu, Shereen Oraby, Amita Misra, and Marilyn Walker. SlugNERDS: A Named Entity Recognition Tool for Open Domain Dialogue Systems. Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), Miyazaki, Japan, 2018 
 * Resources can be found: https://nlds.soe.ucsc.edu/node/56 
  Access Paper or Ask Questions

Slugbot: An Application of a Novel and Scalable Open Domain Socialbot Framework


Jan 04, 2018
Kevin K. Bowden, Jiaqi Wu, Shereen Oraby, Amita Misra, Marilyn Walker

Figure 1 for Slugbot: An Application of a Novel and Scalable Open Domain Socialbot Framework
Figure 2 for Slugbot: An Application of a Novel and Scalable Open Domain Socialbot Framework
Figure 3 for Slugbot: An Application of a Novel and Scalable Open Domain Socialbot Framework
Figure 4 for Slugbot: An Application of a Novel and Scalable Open Domain Socialbot Framework
* Alexa Prize Proceedings 2017 
  Access Paper or Ask Questions

Combining Search with Structured Data to Create a More Engaging User Experience in Open Domain Dialogue


Sep 15, 2017
Kevin K. Bowden, Shereen Oraby, Jiaqi Wu, Amita Misra, Marilyn Walker

Figure 1 for Combining Search with Structured Data to Create a More Engaging User Experience in Open Domain Dialogue
Figure 2 for Combining Search with Structured Data to Create a More Engaging User Experience in Open Domain Dialogue
Figure 3 for Combining Search with Structured Data to Create a More Engaging User Experience in Open Domain Dialogue
Figure 4 for Combining Search with Structured Data to Create a More Engaging User Experience in Open Domain Dialogue
* SCAI 2017 
  Access Paper or Ask Questions

Data-Driven Dialogue Systems for Social Agents


Sep 10, 2017
Kevin K. Bowden, Shereen Oraby, Amita Misra, Jiaqi Wu, Stephanie Lukin

* IWSDS 2017 
  Access Paper or Ask Questions

Debbie, the Debate Bot of the Future


Sep 10, 2017
Geetanjali Rakshit, Kevin K. Bowden, Lena Reed, Amita Misra, Marilyn Walker

Figure 1 for Debbie, the Debate Bot of the Future
* IWSDS 2017 
  Access Paper or Ask Questions

M2D: Monolog to Dialog Generation for Conversational Story Telling


Aug 24, 2017
Kevin K. Bowden, Grace I. Lin, Lena I. Reed, Marilyn A. Walker

Figure 1 for M2D: Monolog to Dialog Generation for Conversational Story Telling
Figure 2 for M2D: Monolog to Dialog Generation for Conversational Story Telling
Figure 3 for M2D: Monolog to Dialog Generation for Conversational Story Telling
Figure 4 for M2D: Monolog to Dialog Generation for Conversational Story Telling
* ICIDS 2016 
  Access Paper or Ask Questions

I Probe, Therefore I Am: Designing a Virtual Journalist with Human Emotions


May 18, 2017
Kevin K. Bowden, Tommy Nilsson, Christine P. Spencer, Kubra Cengiz, Alexandru Ghitulescu, Jelte B. van Waterschoot

Figure 1 for I Probe, Therefore I Am: Designing a Virtual Journalist with Human Emotions
Figure 2 for I Probe, Therefore I Am: Designing a Virtual Journalist with Human Emotions
Figure 3 for I Probe, Therefore I Am: Designing a Virtual Journalist with Human Emotions
Figure 4 for I Probe, Therefore I Am: Designing a Virtual Journalist with Human Emotions
* eNTERFACE16 proceedings 
  Access Paper or Ask Questions