James Finch

Publications

1. Generative Induction of Dialogue Task Schemas with Streaming Refinement and Simulated Interactions — Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL), 2026
2. Diverse and Effective Synthetic Data Generation for Adaptable Zero-Shot Dialogue State Tracking — Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP): Findings, 2024
3. Transforming Slot Schema Induction with Generative Dialogue State Inference — Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL), 2024
4. Enhancing Task-oriented Dialogue Systems Through Synchronous Multi-party Interaction and Multi-group Virtual Simulation — Information: Feature Papers in Artificial Intelligence 2024, 2024
5. Exploring the Impact of Human Evaluator Group on Chat-Oriented Dialogue Evaluation — Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (COLING-LREC), 2024
6. Don't Forget Your ABC's: Evaluating the State-of-the-Art in Chat-Oriented Dialogue Systems — Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2023
7. What Went Wrong? Explaining Overall Dialogue Quality through Utterance-Level Impacts — ACL Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Conversational AI (NLP4ConvAI), 2021
8. An Approach to Inference-Driven Dialogue Management within a Social Chatbot — Proceedings of the Alexa Prize Socialbot Grand Challenge (AlexaPrize), 2021
9. Emora: An Inquisitive Social Chatbot Who Cares For You — Proceedings of the Alexa Prize Socialbot Grand Challenge (AlexaPrize), 2020
10. Emora STDM: A Versatile Framework for Innovative Dialogue System Development — Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL): System Demonstrations, 2020