Publications #James_D_Finch

Diverse and Effective Synthetic Data Generation for Adaptable Zero-Shot Dialogue State Tracking. Finch, J. D.; and Choi, J. D. Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP): Findings, 2024.

Enhancing Task-oriented Dialogue Systems Through Synchronous Multi-party Interaction and Multi-group Virtual Simulation. Paek, E. S.; Fan, T.; Finch, J. D.; Choi, J. D. Information: Feature Papers in Artificial Intelligence 2024, 2024.

Transforming Slot Schema Induction with Generative Dialogue State Inference. Finch, J. D.; Zhao, B.; Choi, J. D. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL), 2024.

Exploring the Impact of Human Evaluator Group on Chat-Oriented Dialogue Evaluation. Finch, S. E. and Choi, J. D. Proceedings of the Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (COLING-LREC), 2024.

Don't Forget Your ABC's: Evaluating the State-of-the-Art in Chat-Oriented Dialogue Systems. Finch J. D.; Finch S. E.; Choi, J. D. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2023.

What Went Wrong? Explaining Overall Dialogue Quality through Utterance-Level Impacts. Finch, J.; Finch, S.; and Choi, J. D. Proceedings of the EMNLP Workshop on NLP for Conversational AI (NLP4ConvAI), 2021.

An Approach to Inference-Driven Dialogue Management within a Social Chatbot. Finch, S. E.; Finch, J. D.; Huryn, D.; Hutsell, W. M.; Huang, X. S.; He, H.; and Choi, J. D. Proceedings of the Alexa Prize Socialbot Grand Challenge (AlexaPrize), 2021.

Emora: An Inquisitive Social Chatbot Who Cares For You. Finch, S. E.; Finch, J. D.; Ahmadvand, A.; Choi, I. J.; Dong, X.; Qi, R.; Sahijwani, H.; Volokhin, S.; Wang, Z.; Wang, Z.; and Choi, J. D. Proceedings of the Alexa Prize Socialbot Grand Challenge (AlexaPrize), 2020.

Emora STDM: A Versatile Framework for Innovative Dialogue System Development. Finch, J. D.; and Choi, J. D. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue: System Demonstrations (SIGDIAL:DEMO), 2020.