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Theses and Dissertations
This collection contains theses and dissertations of graduate students of the University of Alberta. The collection contains a very large number of theses electronically available that were granted from 1947 to 2009, 90% of theses granted from 2009-2014, and 100% of theses granted from April 2014 to the present (as long as the theses are not under temporary embargo by agreement with the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies). IMPORTANT NOTE: To conduct a comprehensive search of all UofA theses granted and in University of Alberta Libraries collections, search the library catalogue at www.library.ualberta.ca - you may search by Author, Title, Keyword, or search by Department.
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Items in this Collection
- 1Conversational AI
- 1Conversational systems
- 1Dialogue Benchmarks
- 1Dialogue Systems
- 1Dialogue evaluation
- 1Machine Learning
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Fall 2018
Conversation plays a key role in maintaining humans well-being. It constitutes the most natural way of interacting verbally with each other. Over the past decade, dialogue systems have become omnipresent in our daily lives, assisting our daily schedule and routine. Recently, the emergence of...
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Spring 2023
Dialogue systems powered by large pre-trained language models exhibit an innate ability to deliver fluent and natural-sounding responses. Despite their impressive performance, these models fail to conduct interesting and consistent exchanges of turns and can often generate factually incorrect...