Kevin Bowden

According to our database, Kevin Bowden authored at least 24 papers between 2016 and 2025.

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2025

Dialogue Scaffolding: Producing a Realistic Corpus of Human-Computer Open-Domain Dialogues Using a Spoken Dialogue System and ChatGPT.

Kevin Bowden, Marilyn A. Walker

Proceedings of the 26th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, 2025

2024

User Moderling, Personalization, and Personalized Question Generation in Open-Domain Dialogue Systems

Kevin Bowden

PhD thesis, 2024

Active Listening: Personalized Question Generation in Open-Domain Social Conversation with User Model Based Prompting.

Kevin Bowden, Yue Fan, Winson Chen, Wen Cui, Davan Harrison, Xin Wang, Marilyn A. Walker

Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024, 2024

2023

Athena 2.0: Discourse and User Modeling in Open Domain Dialogue.

Omkar Patil, Lena Reed, Kevin K. Bowden, Juraj Juraska, Wen Cui, Vrindavan Harrison, Rishi Rajasekaran, Angela Ramirez, Cecilia Li, Eduardo Zamora, Phillip Lee, Jeshwanth Bheemanpally, Rohan Pandey, Adwait Ratnaparkhi, Marilyn A. Walker

CoRR, 2023

Let's Get Personal: Personal Questions Improve SocialBot Performance in the Alexa Prize.

Kevin K. Bowden, Marilyn A. Walker

CoRR, 2023

2021

Athena 2.0: Contextualized Dialogue Management for an Alexa Prize SocialBot.

Juraj Juraska, Kevin K. Bowden, Lena Reed, Vrindavan Harrison, Wen Cui, Omkar Patil, Rishi Rajasekaran, Angela Ramirez, Cecilia Li, Eduardo Zamora, Phillip Lee, Jeshwanth Bheemanpally, Rohan Pandey, Adwait Ratnaparkhi, Marilyn A. Walker

CoRR, 2021

Athena 2.0: Contextualized Dialogue Management for an Alexa Prize SocialBot.

Marilyn A. Walker, Vrindavan Harrison, Juraj Juraska, Lena Reed, Kevin Bowden, Wen Cui, Omkar Patil, Adwait Ratnaparkhi

Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations, 2021

2020

Athena: Constructing Dialogues Dynamically with Discourse Constraints.

Vrindavan Harrison, Juraj Juraska, Wen Cui, Lena Reed, Kevin K. Bowden, JiaQi Wu, Brian Schwarzmann, Abteen Ebrahimi, Rishi Rajasekaran, Nikhil Varghese, Max Wechsler-Azen, Steve Whittaker, Jeffrey Flanigan, Marilyn A. Walker

CoRR, 2020

2019

SlugBot: Developing a Computational Model andFramework of a Novel Dialogue Genre.

Kevin K. Bowden, JiaQi Wu, Wen Cui, Juraj Juraska, Vrindavan Harrison, Brian Schwarzmann, Nick Santer, Marilyn A. Walker

CoRR, 2019

ViGGO: A Video Game Corpus for Data-To-Text Generation in Open-Domain Conversation.

Juraj Juraska, Kevin Bowden, Marilyn A. Walker

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

Entertaining and opinionated but too controlling: a large-scale user study of an open domain Alexa prize system.

Kevin K. Bowden, JiaQi Wu, Wen Cui, Juraj Juraska, Vrindavan Harrison, Brian Schwarzmann, Nicholas Santer, Steve Whittaker, Marilyn A. Walker

Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Conversational User Interfaces, 2019

Implicit Discourse Relation Identification for Open-domain Dialogues.

Mingyu Derek Ma, Kevin Bowden, JiaQi Wu, Wen Cui, Marilyn A. Walker

Proceedings of the 57th Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2019

2018

Slugbot: An Application of a Novel and Scalable Open Domain Socialbot Framework.

Kevin K. Bowden, JiaQi Wu, Shereen Oraby, Amita Misra, Marilyn A. Walker

CoRR, 2018

A Deep Ensemble Model with Slot Alignment for Sequence-to-Sequence Natural Language Generation.

Juraj Juraska, Panagiotis Karagiannis, Kevin Bowden, Marilyn A. Walker

Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, 2018

SlugNERDS: A Named Entity Recognition Tool for Open Domain Dialogue Systems.

Kevin Bowden, JiaQi Wu, Shereen Oraby, Amita Misra, Marilyn A. Walker

Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2018

2017

Combining Search with Structured Data to Create a More Engaging User Experience in Open Domain Dialogue.

Kevin K. Bowden, Shereen Oraby, JiaQi Wu, Amita Misra, Marilyn A. Walker

CoRR, 2017

Data-Driven Dialogue Systems for Social Agents.

Kevin K. Bowden, Shereen Oraby, Amita Misra, JiaQi Wu, Stephanie M. Lukin

CoRR, 2017

M2D: Monolog to Dialog Generation for Conversational Story Telling.

Kevin K. Bowden, Grace I. Lin, Lena I. Reed, Marilyn A. Walker

CoRR, 2017

I Probe, Therefore I Am: Designing a Virtual Journalist with Human Emotions.

Kevin K. Bowden, Tommy Nilsson, Christine P. Spencer, Kubra Cengiz, Alexandru Ghitulescu, Jelte B. van Waterschoot

CoRR, 2017

Debbie, the Debate Bot of the Future.

Geetanjali Rakshit, Kevin K. Bowden, Lena Reed, Amita Misra, Marilyn A. Walker

Proceedings of the Advanced Social Interaction with Agents, 2017

Data-Driven Dialogue Systems for Social Agents.

Kevin K. Bowden, Shereen Oraby, Amita Misra, JiaQi Wu, Stephanie M. Lukin, Marilyn A. Walker

Proceedings of the Advanced Social Interaction with Agents, 2017

2016

PersonaBank: A Corpus of Personal Narratives and Their Story Intention Graphs.

Stephanie M. Lukin, Kevin Bowden, Casey Barackman, Marilyn A. Walker

Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation LREC 2016, 2016

A Corpus of Gesture-Annotated Dialogues for Monologue-to-Dialogue Generation from Personal Narratives.

Zhichao Hu, Michelle Dick, Chung-Ning Chang, Kevin Bowden, Michael Neff, Jean E. Fox Tree, Marilyn A. Walker

Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation LREC 2016, 2016

M2D: Monolog to Dialog Generation for Conversational Story Telling.

Kevin K. Bowden, Grace I. Lin, Lena I. Reed, Jean E. Fox Tree, Marilyn A. Walker

Proceedings of the Interactive Storytelling, 2016