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In July, Amazon Alexa announced the public beta launch of Alexa Conversations dialogue management. With the launch, Alexa developers can now leverage a state-of-the-art dialogue manager...
Amazon product pages include sections in which customers can both ask and answer questions, and like most community-access online forums, they’ve become fertile ground for comedy....
Today we announced the public beta launch of Alexa Conversations dialogue management. Alexa developers can now leverage a state-of-the-art dialogue manager powered by deep learning to...
The Alexa Prize Socialbot Grand Challenge is a competition for university students dedicated to accelerating the field of conversational AI. The competition is focused on university...
Kathleen McKeown is the Henry and Gertrude Rothschild professor of computer science at Columbia University, and the founding director of the school’s Data Science Institute. McKeown...
The annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) is, according to Google Scholar’s rankings, the preeminent conference on computational linguistics, or the scientific study...
A year ago, Amazon and the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced a $20 million collaboration to fund academic research on fairness in AI over a three-year...
Since first being announced in 2014, Alexa has continuously become more natural, knowledgeable, conversational, context-aware, and capable of self-learning. All this has been achieved through the...
Follow-up Mode makes interacting with Alexa more natural. With Follow-up Mode enabled, a customer can ask, “Alexa, what’s the weather?”, then follow up by asking “How...
The International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), which starts today, is now in its 45th year, and according to Google Scholar’s rankings, it’s...