Friday, July 8, 2016

Update on dialogue progress

In a recent blog post I discussed two ideas for moving dialogue forward; both ideas are related to the need to democratize access to the data required to evaluate a dialog system. It turns out both ideas have already been advanced to some degree:
  1. Having computers “talk” to each other instead of with people: Marco Beroni is on it.
  2. Creating an open platform for online assessment: Maxine Eskenazi is on it.
This is good to see.

1 comment:

  1. Luc Steels did an interesting related experiment called "Talking Heads" where agents evolved a language on objects and properties by interacting:

    - https://www.csl.sony.fr/downloads/papers/2003/steels-03c.pdf

    - http://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/49

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