ADVISER: A Toolkit for Developing Multi-modal, Multi-domain and Socially-engaged Conversational Agents

Chia-Yu Li, Daniel Ortega, Dirk Väth, Florian Lux, Lindsey Vanderlyn, Maximilian Schmidt, Michael Neumann, Moritz Völkel, Pavel Denisov, Sabrina Jenne, Zorica Kacarevic, Ngoc Thang Vu


Abstract
We present ADVISER - an open-source, multi-domain dialog system toolkit that enables the development of multi-modal (incorporating speech, text and vision), socially-engaged (e.g. emotion recognition, engagement level prediction and backchanneling) conversational agents. The final Python-based implementation of our toolkit is flexible, easy to use, and easy to extend not only for technically experienced users, such as machine learning researchers, but also for less technically experienced users, such as linguists or cognitive scientists, thereby providing a flexible platform for collaborative research.
Anthology ID:
2020.acl-demos.31
Volume:
Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations
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July
Year:
2020
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Online
Editors:
Asli Celikyilmaz, Tsung-Hsien Wen
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ACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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279–286
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https://aclanthology.org/2020.acl-demos.31
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2020.acl-demos.31
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Chia-Yu Li, Daniel Ortega, Dirk Väth, Florian Lux, Lindsey Vanderlyn, Maximilian Schmidt, Michael Neumann, Moritz Völkel, Pavel Denisov, Sabrina Jenne, Zorica Kacarevic, and Ngoc Thang Vu. 2020. ADVISER: A Toolkit for Developing Multi-modal, Multi-domain and Socially-engaged Conversational Agents. In Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations, pages 279–286, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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ADVISER: A Toolkit for Developing Multi-modal, Multi-domain and Socially-engaged Conversational Agents (Li et al., ACL 2020)
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