Alexa Prize 3

Emora team won the Alexa Prize Socialbot Grand Challenge 3 with the final score of 3.81!

Media

• [12/14/2020] Alexa Prize Winners: Jinho Choi, Sarah Fillwock and James Finch from Emory University, Humanitarian AI Today
• [09/15/2020] Emora: An Inquisitive Social Chatbot Who Cares For You, TSD 2020
• [08/14/2020] Alexa Prize Socialbot Grand Challenge 3 Finals, Amazon Science
• [08/06/2020] Emory students win Amazon’s Alexa Prize for artificial intelligence ‘social companion’, Emory News
• [08/04/2020] Episode 47 - Talking Machines, Eye on AI
• [08/04/2020] Talking Machines: Who Won This Year’s Alexa Prize?, Forbes
• [08/04/2020] How participants in the Alexa Prize approached the competition, Amazon Science
• [08/04/2020] Emory University team wins Alexa Prize Grand Challenge 3, Amazon Science
• [05/15/2020] Five Alexa Prize finalists announced, Amazon Science
• [12/04/2019] Promotion video from the Alexa Prize team, Twitter

YouTube

• [02/14/2020] Emora: Sports Component
• [02/07/2020] Emora: Visit from Alexa Prize
• [12/20/2020] Emora: Holiday Greeting
• [12/14/2020] Emora: Opening Component
• [11/22/2020] Emora: Movie Component
• [11/12/2020] Emora: Socialbot that Cares for You

Publications

• Emora: An Inquisitive Social Chatbot Who Cares For You. Finch, S. E.; Finch, J. D.; Ahmadvand, A.; Choi, I. J.; Dong, X.; Qi, R.; Sahijwani, H.; Volokhin, S.; Wang, Z.; Wang, Z.; and Choi, J. D. Proceedings of the Alexa Prize Socialbot Grand Challenge (AlexaPrize), 2020.
• Towards Unified Dialogue System Evaluation: A Comprehensive Analysis of Current Evaluation Protocols. Finch, S. E.; and Choi, J. D. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL), 2020.
• Emora STDM: A Versatile Framework for Innovative Dialogue System Development. Finch, J. D.; and Choi, J. D. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue: System Demonstrations (SIGDIAL:DEMO), 2020.

Members

Emora is a collaborative team between the Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Information Retrieval (IR) Research Laboratories at Emory.

Jinho Choi Faculty Advisor (NLP) Assistant Professor of CS/QTM/LING	Sarah Finch Team Lead 1 (NLP) PhD Student in Computer Science	James Finch Team Lead 2 (NLP) PhD Student in Computer Science	Zihao Wang Member (NLP) PhD Student in Computer Science
Ali Ahmadvand Member (IR) PhD Student in Computer Science	Harshita Sahijwani Member (IR) PhD Student in Computer Science	Sergey Volokhin Member (IR) PhD Student in Computer Science	Jason Choi Member (IR) MS Student in Computer Science
Xiangjue Dong Member (NLP) MS Student in Computer Science	Zihan Wang Member (NLP) MS Student in Computer Science	Chenxi Xu Member (NLP) BS Student in Computer Science	Ruixiang Qi Member (NLP) BS Student in Computer Science