Third generation Echo Dot
New AI technique targets Alexa’s contextual understanding Dialogue state tracking, or estimating and keeping tabs on a person’s goals throughout a multiturn conversation, is one of the ways Alexa figures out what’s being requested of it. By combining conversation history with the most recent command, Amazon’s intelligent assistant can better map slot names — the price of a hotel or its star rating, for example — to slot values, or entities mentioned in dialogue. Alexa already performs dialogue state tracking pretty effectively, but a team of scientists at Amazon’s R&D division think there’s room for improvement. In a new paper (“ Dialog State Tracking: A Neural Reading Comprehension Approach “) scheduled to be presented at the International Speech Communication Association’s Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, they propose an AI system that formulates dialogue state tracking as a classic question-answering-style problem. In othe...
