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Neural Generation Meets Real People: Building a Social, Informative Open-Domain Dialogue Agent

arXiv 2207.12021 ↗First posted 25 Jul 2022cs.CLcited by 4

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Abstract (arXiv)

We present Chirpy Cardinal, an open-domain social chatbot. Aiming to be both informative and conversational, our bot chats with users in an authentic, emotionally intelligent way. By integrating controlled neural generation with scaffolded, hand-written dialogue, we let both the user and bot take turns driving the conversation, producing an engaging and socially fluent experience. Deployed in the fourth iteration of the Alexa Prize Socialbot Grand Challenge, Chirpy Cardinal handled thousands of conversations per day, placing second out of nine bots with an average user rating of 3.58/5.

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Citing papers per year: 2022: 1; 2023: 2; 2024: 0; 2025: 0; 2026: 1.

4 papers.

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  2. 2023Roll Up Your Sleeves: Working with a Collaborative and Engaging Task-Oriented Dialogue Systemcited by 5
  3. 2022DialGuide: Aligning Dialogue Model Behavior with Developer Guidelinescited by 3
  4. 2026DeepSAGE: Stage-Aware Reinforcement Learning for Structured CBT Counseling Dialoguecited by 0