| Open-domain chat |
| Banchs and Li, 2012 | Rafael E. Banchs and Haizhou Li. (2012)
IRIS: a Chat-oriented Dialogue System based on the Vector Space Model. ACL 2012. |
| Chen and Rudnicky | Y.N. Chen and A. Rudnicky. (2014) Dynamically Supporting Unexplored Domains in Conversational Interactions by Enriching Semantics with Neural Word Embeddings. SLT 2014. |
| Errors and Evaluation |
| Liu et al., 2016 | Chia-Wei Liu, Ryan Lowe, Iulian V. Serban, Michael Noseworthy, Laurent Charlin, Joelle Pineau. (2016) How NOT To Evaluate Your Dialogue System: An Empirical Study of Unsupervised Evaluation Metrics for Dialogue Response Generation. EMNLP 2016. |
| Higashinaka et al, 2015 | Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Masahiro Mizukami, Kotaro Funakoshi,
Masahiro Araki, Hiroshi Tsukahara, Yuka Kobayashi. (2015) Fatal or not? Finding errors that lead to dialogue breakdowns in
chat-oriented dialogue systems. EMNLP 2015 |
| Zhou Yu, Leah Nicolich-Henkin, Alan W Black and Alexander Rudnicky. (2016) A Wizard-of-Oz Study on A Non-Task-Oriented Dialog Systems That Reacts to User Engagement. SIGDIAL 2016. |
| Neural MT-style models |
| Lowe et al., 2015 | Ryan Lowe, Nissan Pow, Iulian Serban, Joelle Pineau. (2015) The Ubuntu Dialogue Corpus: A Large Dataset for Research in Unstructured Multi-Turn Dialogue Systems. SIGDial 2015. |
| Sordoni et al., 2015 | Alessandro Sordoni, Michel Galley, Michael Auli,
Chris Brockett, Yangfeng Ji, Meg Mitchell, Jian-Yun
Nie, Jianfeng Gao, and Bill Dolan. (2015) A neural
network approach to context-sensitive generation of
conversational responses. In Proc. of NAACL-HLT. |
| Li et al., 2016 | Jiwei Li; Michel Galley; Chris Brockett; Georgios Spithourakis; Jianfeng Gao; Bill Dolan. (2016) A Persona-Based Neural Conversation Model. ACL 2016. |
| Classic paper |
| Maudlin, 1994 | M. Maudlin. (1994) Chatterbots, Tinymuds, And The Turing Test: Entering The Loebner Prize Competition. AAAI-94. |