Prof. Pascale FUNG and Her Team Won Outstanding Paper Award at ACL 2019
A paper by Prof. Pascale FUNG from the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering (ECE), her postgraduate students and collaborators from Salesforce Research won an Outstanding Paper Award at the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), held in Florence, Italy on July 28 – Aug 2, 2019. It is a highly competitive award with only five out of 3,800 paper submissions receiving it.
Entitled “Transferable Multi-Domain State Generator for Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems”, the paper proposes a transferable dialogue state generator (TRADE) to solve practical yet less studied problems in dialogue state tracking. It was co-authored by 2019 ECE MPhil graduate Wu Chien-Sheng, ECE PhD student Andrea Madotto, Prof. Fung, and Salesforce Research collaborators Ehsan Hosseini-Asl, Xiong Caiming and Richard Socher.
ACL is the premier conference of the field of computational linguistics, covering a broad spectrum of diverse research areas that are concerned with computational approaches to natural language.
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