Athena 2.0: Contextualized Dialogue Management for an Alexa Prize SocialBot

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2111.02519v1
• Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2021 20:54:20 GMT
• Title: Athena 2.0: Contextualized Dialogue Management for an Alexa Prize SocialBot
• Authors: Juraj Juraska, Kevin K. Bowden, Lena Reed, Vrindavan Harrison, Wen Cui, Omkar Patil, Rishi Rajasekaran, Angela Ramirez, Cecilia Li, Eduardo Zamora, Phillip Lee, Jeshwanth Bheemanpally, Rohan Pandey, Adwait Ratnaparkhi and Marilyn Walker
• Abstract summary: Athena 2.0 is an Alexa Prize SocialBot that has been a finalist in the last two Alexa Prize Grand Challenges. Here we describe Athena's system design and performance in the 20/21 competition.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Athena 2.0 is an Alexa Prize SocialBot that has been a finalist in the last two Alexa Prize Grand Challenges. One reason for Athena's success is its novel dialogue management strategy, which allows it to dynamically construct dialogues and responses from component modules, leading to novel conversations with every interaction. Here we describe Athena's system design and performance in the Alexa Prize during the 20/21 competition. A live demo of Athena as well as video recordings will provoke discussion on the state of the art in conversational AI.

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