ADA TaLKS
Our work on Conversational Agents can be described as Adaptive Dialogue Agents using Task-oriented Learning with Knowledge and Senses.
ADA TaLKS represents the CLiPS research part of the focusing on conversational agents as part of the human-like AI challenge. Within our work package on conversational agents, we cooperate with the Universities of Leuven (), Brussels () and Ghent ( and ). On you can find short video’s on all the current research in our workpackage.
The focus of ADA TaLKS is on enabling a flexible method for incorporating and updating relevant background knowledge in a deep learning approach for dialog systems. In addition, we are researching memory encoding in order to improve consistency of the generated answers with the dialog history and the agent’s persona.
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Publications
. Wojciech Trzebiński, Toni Claessens, Jeska Buhmann, Aurélie De Waele, Greet Hendrickx, Pierre Van Damme, Walter Daelemans, Karolien PoelsJMIR Form Res 2023
. Maxime De Bruyn, Ehsan Lotfi, Jeska Buhmann and Walter Daelemans. GEM 2022
. Maxime De Bruyn, Ehsan Lotfi, Jeska Buhmann and Walter Daelemans. BlackboxNLP 2022
. Maxime De Bruyn, Ehsan Lotfi, Jeska Buhmann and Walter Daelemans. MMNLU 2022
. Jeska Buhmann, Maxime De Bruyn, Ehsan Lotfi and Walter Daelemans. COLING 2022
| Outstanding paper
. Maxime De Bruyn, Ehsan Lotfi, Jeska Buhmann and Walter Daelemans. COLING 2022
. Ehsan Lotfi, Maxime De Bruyn, Jeska Buhmann and Walter Daelemans. NLP4ConvAI 2021
| Best Paper Award
. Maxime De Bruyn, Ehsan Lotfi, Jeska Buhmann and Walter Daelemans. MRQA 2021
| Best Paper Award
. Maxime De Bruyn, Ehsan Lotfi, Jeska Buhmann and Walter Daelemans. Bnaic/benelearn 2021
. Maxime De Bruyn, Ehsan Lotfi, Jeska Buhmann and Walter Daelemans. KDD Converse 2020
Proofs of Technology
VaccinChat
We developed a Dutch chatbot that answers FAQ’s on COVID-19 vaccines and the Flemish vaccination strategy:
This project also gave us insight in
Car insurance chatbot for Belfius
In this work different data augmentation methods were tested to lift the performance of Belfius’ less-used French car insurance bot to the level of the more frequently used Dutch system. These methods include back-translation, paraphrasing and question generation.