Hello,

Chinnadhurai Sankar, MILA PhD candidate, will present his predoctoral subject proposal Tuesday September 5 at 13h30 (room 3395, PAA):

Title: Problems in Non-Goal Oriented Dialog Systems

Abstract:

This predoctoral presentation will mainly focus on data-driven approaches to non-goal oriented dialog systems research. I shall talk about two dialog systems projects that I have been part of. First, I shall propose a reinforcement learning based response selection model for dialogue management. The proposed method was implemented & tested in the Amazon Alexa Competition and shown to demonstrate superior performance when compared to traditional heuristics based approaches and supervised learning based approaches. Next, I shall introduce a hybrid retrieval based generative dialog system architecture which is designed to provide a sense of specificity in the generated responses.

Please come and learn about his research and support him!

-- Yoshua