Data Science Talk @ CMUPortugal

Conversational Assistants for Complex Search Tasks

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Por Jamie Callan (Professor and Interim Director - CMU Language Technologies Institute).

Conversational assistants such as Alexa, Siri, and Google Assistant have become common, but they are limited to simple interactions.  This talk describes the TREC Conversational Assistance Track (CAsT), an international forum for research on next generation conversational assistants that support complex information seeking.  CAsT conversations are 8-12 questions that model a person learning about a topic, for example, the World Economy Events and Statistics, Legal and Legislation Topics, the US electoral college, or the Bronze Age collapse.  The talk also discusses the characteristics of successful CAsT systems.


As sessões Data Science Talks @ CMU Portugal visam demonstrar alguns dos tópicos que irão ser abordados no Programa de Formação Avançada em Data Science and Machine Learning (em parceria com Ciências ULisboa), através da participação de vários convidados especialistas na área.

Participação mediante inscrição prévia.

14h00