Emory-Alexa AI Collaboration

This collaborative project brings together Emory NLP and Amazon Alexa AI with the aim of advancing research in Conversational AI. The project focuses on three main objectives:

1. Providing extensive resources for dialogue systems, allowing researchers to access a wealth of valuable materials for their work.
2. Developing models designed for open-domain chats, enabling more effective and engaging conversations in various contexts.
3. Creating user-friendly interfaces for dialogue evaluation, facilitating the assessment and improvement of conversational agents.

• Funded by Amazon Alexa AI
• Duration: 01/2022 ~ 12/2022

Directors

• Jinho Choi - Associate Professor at Emory University
  
• Reza Ghanadan - Senior Principal Scientist at Amazon Alexa AI

Activities

• UNR4UMR: Undergraduate NLP Research for Underrepresented Minorities (Summer 2022)
• Annotation Job: Conversational AI (Spring 2022)

Publications

• Don't Forget Your ABC's: Evaluating the State-of-the-Art in Chat-Oriented Dialogue Systems. Finch J. D.; Finch S. E.; Choi, J. D. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2023.
• Automatic Generation of Large-scale Multi-turn Dialogues from Reddit. Huryn, D.; Hutsell, W. M.; Choi, J. D. Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), 2022.