Better Automatic Evaluation of Open-Domain Dialogue Systems with Contextualized Embeddings
Sarik Ghazarian, Johnny Tian-Zheng Wei, Aram Galstyan, and Nanyun Peng, in 2019 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-HLT 2019), NeuralGen Workshop, 2019.
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@inproceedings{ghazarian2019better,
title = {Better Automatic Evaluation of Open-Domain Dialogue Systems with Contextualized Embeddings},
author = {Ghazarian, Sarik and Wei, Johnny Tian-Zheng and Galstyan, Aram and Peng, Nanyun},
booktitle = {2019 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-HLT 2019), NeuralGen Workshop},
year = {2019}
}
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