Behnam Hedayatnia

According to our database, Behnam Hedayatnia authored at least 35 papers between 2016 and 2024.

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2024

Overview of the Tenth Dialog System Technology Challenge: DSTC10.

Koichiro Yoshino, Yun-Nung Chen, Paul A. Crook, Satwik Kottur, Jinchao Li, Behnam Hedayatnia, Seungwhan Moon, Zhengcong Fei, Zekang Li, Jinchao Zhang, Yang Feng, Jie Zhou, Seokhwan Kim, Yang Liu, Di Jin, Alexandros Papangelis, Karthik Gopalakrishnan, Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Babak Damavandi, Alborz Geramifard, Chiori Hori, Ankit Shah, Chen Zhang, Haizhou Li, João Sedoc, Luis F. D'Haro, Rafael E. Banchs, Alexander Rudnicky

IEEE ACM Trans. Audio Speech Lang. Process., 2024

2023

"What do others think?": Task-Oriented Conversational Modeling with Subjective Knowledge.

Chao Zhao, Spandana Gella, Seokhwan Kim, Di Jin, Devamanyu Hazarika, Alexandros Papangelis, Behnam Hedayatnia, Mahdi Namazifar, Yang Liu, Dilek Hakkani-Tur

Proceedings of the 24th Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, 2023

Investigating the Representation of Open Domain Dialogue Context for Transformer Models.

Vishakh Padmakumar, Behnam Hedayatnia, Di Jin, Patrick Lange, Seokhwan Kim, Nanyun Peng, Yang Liu, Dilek Hakkani-Tur

Proceedings of the 24th Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, 2023

MERCY: Multiple Response Ranking Concurrently in Realistic Open-Domain Conversational Systems.

Sarik Ghazarian, Behnam Hedayatnia, Di Jin, Sijia Liu, Nanyun Peng, Yang Liu, Dilek Hakkani-Tur

Proceedings of the 24th Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, 2023

DialGuide: Aligning Dialogue Model Behavior with Developer Guidelines.

Prakhar Gupta, Yang Liu, Di Jin, Behnam Hedayatnia, Spandana Gella, Sijia Liu, Patrick Lange, Julia Hirschberg, Dilek Hakkani-Tur

Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023, 2023

Towards Credible Human Evaluation of Open-Domain Dialog Systems Using Interactive Setup.

Sijia Liu, Patrick Lange, Behnam Hedayatnia, Alexandros Papangelis, Di Jin, Andrew Wirth, Yang Liu, Dilek Hakkani-Tur

Proceedings of the Thirty-Seventh AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2023

2022

A Systematic Evaluation of Response Selection for Open Domain Dialogue.

Behnam Hedayatnia, Di Jin, Yang Liu, Dilek Hakkani-Tur

Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, 2022

Think Before You Speak: Explicitly Generating Implicit Commonsense Knowledge for Response Generation.

Pei Zhou, Karthik Gopalakrishnan, Behnam Hedayatnia, Seokhwan Kim, Jay Pujara, Xiang Ren, Yang Liu, Dilek Hakkani-Tur

Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2022

What is wrong with you?: Leveraging User Sentiment for Automatic Dialog Evaluation.

Sarik Ghazarian, Behnam Hedayatnia, Alexandros Papangelis, Yang Liu, Dilek Hakkani-Tur

Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2022, 2022

2021

User Response and Sentiment Prediction for Automatic Dialogue Evaluation.

Sarik Ghazarian, Behnam Hedayatnia, Alexandros Papangelis, Yang Liu, Dilek Hakkani-Tur

CoRR, 2021

Think Before You Speak: Using Self-talk to Generate Implicit Commonsense Knowledge for Response Generation.

Pei Zhou, Karthik Gopalakrishnan, Behnam Hedayatnia, Seokhwan Kim, Jay Pujara, Xiang Ren, Yang Liu, Dilek Hakkani-Tur

CoRR, 2021

Rome was built in 1776: A Case Study on Factual Correctness in Knowledge-Grounded Response Generation.

Sashank Santhanam, Behnam Hedayatnia, Spandana Gella, Aishwarya Padmakumar, Seokhwan Kim, Yang Liu, Dilek Hakkani-Tur

CoRR, 2021

Incorporating Commonsense Knowledge Graph in Pretrained Models for Social Commonsense Tasks.

Ting-Yun Chang, Yang Liu, Karthik Gopalakrishnan, Behnam Hedayatnia, Pei Zhou, Dilek Hakkani-Tür

CoRR, 2021

Beyond Domain APIs: Task-oriented Conversational Modeling with Unstructured Knowledge Access Track in DSTC9.

Seokhwan Kim, Mihail Eric, Behnam Hedayatnia, Karthik Gopalakrishnan, Yang Liu, Chao-Wei Huang, Dilek Hakkani-Tür

CoRR, 2021

Go Beyond Plain Fine-Tuning: Improving Pretrained Models for Social Commonsense.

Ting-Yun Chang, Yang Liu, Karthik Gopalakrishnan, Behnam Hedayatnia, Pei Zhou, Dilek Hakkani-Tür

Proceedings of the IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop, 2021

Commonsense-Focused Dialogues for Response Generation: An Empirical Study.

Pei Zhou, Karthik Gopalakrishnan, Behnam Hedayatnia, Seokhwan Kim, Jay Pujara, Xiang Ren, Yang Liu, Dilek Hakkani-Tür

Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, 2021

Multi-Sentence Knowledge Selection in Open-Domain Dialogue.

Mihail Eric, Nicole Chartier, Behnam Hedayatnia, Karthik Gopalakrishnan, Pankaj Rajan, Yang Liu, Dilek Hakkani-Tur

Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Natural Language Generation, 2021

"How Robust R U?": Evaluating Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems on Spoken Conversations.

Seokhwan Kim, Yang Liu, Di Jin, Alexandros Papangelis, Karthik Gopalakrishnan, Behnam Hedayatnia, Dilek Hakkani-Tür

Proceedings of the IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop, 2021

2020

Overview of the Ninth Dialog System Technology Challenge: DSTC9.

R. Chulaka Gunasekara, Seokhwan Kim, Luis Fernando D'Haro, Abhinav Rastogi, Yun-Nung Chen, Mihail Eric, Behnam Hedayatnia, Karthik Gopalakrishnan, Yang Liu, Chao-Wei Huang, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Jinchao Li, Qi Zhu, Lingxiao Luo, Lars Liden, Kaili Huang, Shahin Shayandeh, Runze Liang, Baolin Peng, Zheng Zhang, Swadheen Shukla, Minlie Huang, Jianfeng Gao, Shikib Mehri, Yulan Feng, Carla Gordon, Seyed Hossein Alavi, David R. Traum, Maxine Eskénazi, Ahmad Beirami, Eunjoon Cho, Paul A. Crook, Ankita De, Alborz Geramifard, Satwik Kottur, Seungwhan Moon, Shivani Poddar, Rajen Subba

CoRR, 2020

Policy-Driven Neural Response Generation for Knowledge-Grounded Dialogue Systems.

Behnam Hedayatnia, Seokhwan Kim, Yang Liu, Karthik Gopalakrishnan, Mihail Eric, Dilek Hakkani-Tür

CoRR, 2020

Beyond Domain APIs: Task-oriented Conversational Modeling with Unstructured Knowledge Access.

Seokhwan Kim, Mihail Eric, Karthik Gopalakrishnan, Behnam Hedayatnia, Yang Liu, Dilek Hakkani-Tür

Proceedings of the 21th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, 2020

Are Neural Open-Domain Dialog Systems Robust to Speech Recognition Errors in the Dialog History? An Empirical Study.

Karthik Gopalakrishnan, Behnam Hedayatnia, Longshaokan Wang, Yang Liu, Dilek Hakkani-Tür

Proceedings of the Interspeech 2020, 2020

Policy-Driven Neural Response Generation for Knowledge-Grounded Dialog Systems.

Behnam Hedayatnia, Karthik Gopalakrishnan, Seokhwan Kim, Yang Liu, Mihail Eric, Dilek Hakkani-Tür

Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Natural Language Generation, 2020

2019

Towards Coherent and Engaging Spoken Dialog Response Generation Using Automatic Conversation Evaluators.

Sanghyun Yi, Rahul Goel, Chandra Khatri, Tagyoung Chung, Behnam Hedayatnia, Anu Venkatesh, Raefer Gabriel, Dilek Hakkani-Tür

CoRR, 2019

Topical-Chat: Towards Knowledge-Grounded Open-Domain Conversations.

Karthik Gopalakrishnan, Behnam Hedayatnia, Qinlang Chen, Anna Gottardi, Sanjeev Kwatra, Anu Venkatesh, Raefer Gabriel, Dilek Hakkani-Tür

Proceedings of the Interspeech 2019, 2019

Towards Coherent and Engaging Spoken Dialog Response Generation Using Automatic Conversation Evaluators.

Sanghyun Yi, Rahul Goel, Chandra Khatri, Alessandra Cervone, Tagyoung Chung, Behnam Hedayatnia, Anu Venkatesh, Raefer Gabriel, Dilek Hakkani-Tür

Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation, 2019

Natural Language Generation at Scale: A Case Study for Open Domain Question Answering.

Alessandra Cervone, Chandra Khatri, Rahul Goel, Behnam Hedayatnia, Anu Venkatesh, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Raefer Gabriel

Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation, 2019

2018

Advancing the State of the Art in Open Domain Dialog Systems through the Alexa Prize.

Chandra Khatri, Behnam Hedayatnia, Anu Venkatesh, Jeff Nunn, Yi Pan, Qing Liu, Han Song, Anna Gottardi, Sanjeev Kwatra, Sanju Pancholi, Ming Cheng, Qinglang Chen, Lauren Stubel, Karthik Gopalakrishnan, Kate Bland, Raefer Gabriel, Arindam Mandal, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gene Hwang, Nate Michel, Eric King, Rohit Prasad

CoRR, 2018

Detecting Offensive Content in Open-domain Conversations using Two Stage Semi-supervision.

Chandra Khatri, Behnam Hedayatnia, Rahul Goel, Anushree Venkatesh, Raefer Gabriel, Arindam Mandal

CoRR, 2018

On Evaluating and Comparing Conversational Agents.

Anu Venkatesh, Chandra Khatri, Ashwin Ram, Fenfei Guo, Raefer Gabriel, Ashish Nagar, Rohit Prasad, Ming Cheng, Behnam Hedayatnia, Angeliki Metallinou, Rahul Goel, Shaohua Yang, Anirudh Raju

CoRR, 2018

Conversational AI: The Science Behind the Alexa Prize.

Ashwin Ram, Rohit Prasad, Chandra Khatri, Anu Venkatesh, Raefer Gabriel, Qing Liu, Jeff Nunn, Behnam Hedayatnia, Ming Cheng, Ashish Nagar, Eric King, Kate Bland, Amanda Wartick, Yi Pan, Han Song, Sk Jayadevan, Gene Hwang, Art Pettigrue

CoRR, 2018

Alexa Prize - State of the Art in Conversational AI.

Chandra Khatri, Anu Venkatesh, Behnam Hedayatnia, Raefer Gabriel, Ashwin Ram, Rohit Prasad

AI Mag., 2018

Contextual Topic Modeling For Dialog Systems.

Chandra Khatri, Rahul Goel, Behnam Hedayatnia, Angeliki Metanillou, Anushree Venkatesh, Raefer Gabriel, Arindam Mandal

Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop, 2018

Contextual Language Model Adaptation for Conversational Agents.

Anirudh Raju, Behnam Hedayatnia, Linda Liu, Ankur Gandhe, Chandra Khatri, Angeliki Metallinou, Anu Venkatesh, Ariya Rastrow

Proceedings of the Interspeech 2018, 2018

2016

Determining feature extractors for unsupervised learning on satellite images.

Behnam Hedayatnia, Mehrdad Yazdani, Mai H. Nguyen, Jessica Block, Ilkay Altintas

Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData 2016), 2016