no code implementations • SIGDIAL (ACL) 2022 • Carlos Gemmell, Federico Rossetto, Iain Mackie, Paul Owoicho, Sophie Fischer, Jeff Dalton
We present GRILLBot, an open-source multi-modal task-oriented voice assistant to help users perform complex tasks, focusing on the domains of cooking and home improvement.
1 code implementation • 26 Apr 2023 • Paul Owoicho, Ivan Sekulić, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Jeffrey Dalton, Fabio Crestani
To this end, we propose a user simulator-based framework for multi-turn interactions with a variety of mixed-initiative CS systems.
no code implementations • 31 Aug 2022 • Carlos Gemmell, Iain Mackie, Paul Owoicho, Federico Rossetto, Sophie Fischer, Jeffrey Dalton
GRILLBot is the winning system in the 2022 Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge, moving towards the next generation of multimodal task assistants.
2 code implementations • 9 May 2022 • Iain Mackie, Paul Owoicho, Carlos Gemmell, Sophie Fischer, Sean MacAvaney, Jeffrey Dalton
We also show that the manual query reformulations significantly improve document ranking and entity ranking performance.
no code implementations • 17 Apr 2022 • Tosin Adewumi, Mofetoluwa Adeyemi, Aremu Anuoluwapo, Bukola Peters, Happy Buzaaba, Oyerinde Samuel, Amina Mardiyyah Rufai, Benjamin Ajibade, Tajudeen Gwadabe, Mory Moussou Koulibaly Traore, Tunde Ajayi, Shamsuddeen Muhammad, Ahmed Baruwa, Paul Owoicho, Tolulope Ogunremi, Phylis Ngigi, Orevaoghene Ahia, Ruqayya Nasir, Foteini Liwicki, Marcus Liwicki
The language with the most transferable properties is the Nigerian Pidgin English, with a human-likeness score of 78. 1%, of which 34. 4% are unanimous.