Athena 2.0: Contextualized Dialogue Management for an Alexa Prize SocialBot
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
TL;DR
Athena 2.0 is a conversational AI system that dynamically constructs dialogues from modular components, enabling novel interactions and demonstrating advanced dialogue management in the Alexa Prize competition.
Contribution
Introduces a novel dialogue management strategy that dynamically assembles responses from modules, enhancing conversational diversity and adaptability.
Findings
Athena 2.0 was a finalist in two Alexa Prize challenges.
The system demonstrated improved dialogue diversity and engagement.
Performance details discussed in live demos and recordings.
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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Taxonomy
TopicsSpeech and dialogue systems · Topic Modeling · AI in Service Interactions