Heriberto Cuayáhuitl


2018

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Cut to the Chase: A Context Zoom-in Network for Reading Comprehension
Sathish Reddy Indurthi | Seunghak Yu | Seohyun Back | Heriberto Cuayáhuitl
Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

In recent years many deep neural networks have been proposed to solve Reading Comprehension (RC) tasks. Most of these models suffer from reasoning over long documents and do not trivially generalize to cases where the answer is not present as a span in a given document. We present a novel neural-based architecture that is capable of extracting relevant regions based on a given question-document pair and generating a well-formed answer. To show the effectiveness of our architecture, we conducted several experiments on the recently proposed and challenging RC dataset ‘NarrativeQA’. The proposed architecture outperforms state-of-the-art results by 12.62% (ROUGE-L) relative improvement.

2017

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Evaluating Persuasion Strategies and Deep Reinforcement Learning methods for Negotiation Dialogue agents
Simon Keizer | Markus Guhe | Heriberto Cuayáhuitl | Ioannis Efstathiou | Klaus-Peter Engelbrecht | Mihai Dobre | Alex Lascarides | Oliver Lemon
Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Volume 2, Short Papers

In this paper we present a comparative evaluation of various negotiation strategies within an online version of the game “Settlers of Catan”. The comparison is based on human subjects playing games against artificial game-playing agents (‘bots’) which implement different negotiation dialogue strategies, using a chat dialogue interface to negotiate trades. Our results suggest that a negotiation strategy that uses persuasion, as well as a strategy that is trained from data using Deep Reinforcement Learning, both lead to an improved win rate against humans, compared to previous rule-based and supervised learning baseline dialogue negotiators.

2014

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Cluster-based Prediction of User Ratings for Stylistic Surface Realisation
Nina Dethlefs | Heriberto Cuayáhuitl | Helen Hastie | Verena Rieser | Oliver Lemon
Proceedings of the 14th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics

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The PARLANCE mobile application for interactive search in English and Mandarin
Helen Hastie | Marie-Aude Aufaure | Panos Alexopoulos | Hugues Bouchard | Catherine Breslin | Heriberto Cuayáhuitl | Nina Dethlefs | Milica Gašić | James Henderson | Oliver Lemon | Xingkun Liu | Peter Mika | Nesrine Ben Mustapha | Tim Potter | Verena Rieser | Blaise Thomson | Pirros Tsiakoulis | Yves Vanrompay | Boris Villazon-Terrazas | Majid Yazdani | Steve Young | Yanchao Yu
Proceedings of the 15th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL)

2013

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Demonstration of the PARLANCE system: a data-driven incremental, spoken dialogue system for interactive search
Helen Hastie | Marie-Aude Aufaure | Panos Alexopoulos | Heriberto Cuayáhuitl | Nina Dethlefs | Milica Gasic | James Henderson | Oliver Lemon | Xingkun Liu | Peter Mika | Nesrine Ben Mustapha | Verena Rieser | Blaise Thomson | Pirros Tsiakoulis | Yves Vanrompay
Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2013 Conference

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Impact of ASR N-Best Information on Bayesian Dialogue Act Recognition
Heriberto Cuayáhuitl | Nina Dethlefs | Helen Hastie | Oliver Lemon
Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2013 Conference

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Conditional Random Fields for Responsive Surface Realisation using Global Features
Nina Dethlefs | Helen Hastie | Heriberto Cuayáhuitl | Oliver Lemon
Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)

2012

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Comparing HMMs and Bayesian Networks for Surface Realisation
Nina Dethlefs | Heriberto Cuayáhuitl
Proceedings of the 2012 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies

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An Interactive Humanoid Robot Exhibiting Flexible Sub-Dialogues
Heriberto Cuayáhuitl | Ivana Kruijff-Korbayová
Proceedings of the Demonstration Session at the Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies

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Hierarchical Dialogue Policy Learning using Flexible State Transitions and Linear Function Approximation
Heriberto Cuayáhuitl | Ivana Kruijff-Korbayová | Nina Dethlefs
Proceedings of COLING 2012: Demonstration Papers

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Dialogue Systems Using Online Learning: Beyond Empirical Methods
Heriberto Cuayáhuitl | Nina Dethlefs
NAACL-HLT Workshop on Future directions and needs in the Spoken Dialog Community: Tools and Data (SDCTD 2012)

2011

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Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning and Hidden Markov Models for Task-Oriented Natural Language Generation
Nina Dethlefs | Heriberto Cuayáhuitl
Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies

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Optimising Natural Language Generation Decision Making For Situated Dialogue
Nina Dethlefs | Heriberto Cuayáhuitl | Jette Viethen
Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2011 Conference

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Combining Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning and Bayesian Networks for Natural Language Generation in Situated Dialogue
Nina Dethlefs | Heriberto Cuayáhuitl
Proceedings of the 13th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation

2010

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Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning for Adaptive Text Generation
Nina Dethlefs | Heriberto Cuayáhuitl
Proceedings of the 6th International Natural Language Generation Conference