One Step Forward and Two Steps Back in Conversational Models

December 7, 2020
2:45-3:45 pm ET
Sococo VH 209; Zoom
Speaker: Charles Threlkeld
Host: JP de Ruiter

Abstract

With conversational robotics on the rise in applications from Siri to Jibo, computational models of language are becoming ever more present in our lives. In this talk, I discuss my experience in development of a planning-based dialogue system implemented in a robotic architecture. I show that there are fundamental aspects of language with which we must grapple for robust language understanding. I demonstrate the tooling I've developed to examine human dialogue, and how I am currently using that tooling to enhance our understanding of natural language use in humans. Finally, I illustrate a research path for applying the ongoing basic research into enhanced dialogue systems.

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