[Colloquium] 11/9 Young Researcher Seminar Series: Tsung-Hsien (Shawn) Wen, University of Cambridge

[Mary Marre via Colloquium]

When:     Wednesday, November 9th at 11:00 am

Where:    TTIC, 6045 S. Kenwood Avenue, 5th Floor, Room 526

Who:       Tsung-Hsien (Shawn) Wen, University of Cambridge


Title:       A Task-Oriented Neural Dialogue System

Abstract:
Teaching machines to accomplish tasks by conversing naturally with humans
is challenging. Currently, developing task-oriented dialogue systems
requires creating multiple components and typically this involves either a
large amount of handcrafting, or acquiring costly labelled datasets to
solve a statistical learning problem for each component. In this work we
introduce a neural network-based text-in, text-out end-to-end trainable
goal-oriented dialogue system along with a new way of collecting dialogue
data based on a novel pipe-lined Wizard-of-Oz framework. This approach
allows us to develop dialogue systems easily and without making too many
assumptions about the task at hand. The results show that the model can
converse with human subjects naturally whilst helping them to accomplish
tasks in a restaurant search domain.

Short Bio:
Tsung-Hsien Wen (溫宗憲) is a PhD student in Dialogue Systems Group,
University of Cambridge, under the supervision of Professor Steve Young.
His work focus on applying deep learning for open domain statistical
dialogue systems. The research topics he is particularly interested in are
recurrent neural network-based natural language generation and end-to-end
trainable dialogue modelling using deep learning. His PhD is supported by
Toshiba Research Europe Ltd, Cambridge Research Laboratory. He is a current
member of Darwin College.


Host: Karen Livescu, klivescu at ttic.edu <klivescu at ttic.edu>

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The TTIC Young Researcher Seminar Series (http://www.ttic.edu/young-
researcher.php) features talks by Ph.D. students and postdocs whose research is
of broad interest to the computer science community. The series provides an
opportunity for early-career researchers to present recent work to and meet
with students and faculty at TTIC and nearby universities.


The seminars are typically held on Wednesdays at 11:00am in TTIC Room 526.

For additional information, please contact Matthew Walter (mwalter at ttic.edu
).






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