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Jason Weston

Research scientist @ Meta

dialogue

chatbot

crowdsourcing

continual learning

nlp

conversation

consistency

conversational

games

light

gamification

lifelong-learning

persona

natural langauge understanding

dialogue in the wild

9

presentations

14

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SHORT BIO

Jason is a Research Scientist at Facebook, NY and a Visiting Research Professor at NYU. He earned his Ph.D. in machine learning at Royal Holloway, University of London and at AT&T Research in Red Bank, NJ. Previously, he was a researcher at Biowulf Technologies, a research scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tuebingen, Germany, a research staff member at NEC Labs America, Princeton, and a research scientist at Google, NY. His interests lie in statistical machine learning, with a focus on reasoning, memory, perception, interaction, and communication. Jason has published over 100 papers, including Best Paper awards at ICML and ECML, and received a Test of Time Award for his work, "A Unified Architecture for Natural Language Processing: Deep Neural Networks with Multitask Learning," (with Ronan Collobert). He was part of the YouTube team that won a National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Emmy Award for Technology and Engineering for Personalized Recommendation Engines for Video Discovery. Jason was also listed as the 16th most influential machine learning scholar at AMiner and one of the top 50 authors in Computer Science in Science.

Presentations

Am I Me or You? State-of-the-Art Dialogue Models Cannot Maintain an Identity

Kurt Shuster and 3 other authors

Human Evaluation of Conversations is an Open Problem: comparing the sensitivity of various methods for evaluating dialogue agents

Eric Smith and 5 other authors

Retrieval Augmentation Reduces Hallucination in Conversation

Kurt Shuster and 4 other authors

Multi-Modal Open-Domain Dialogue

Eric Smith and 3 other authors

Retrieval Augmentation Reduces Hallucination in Conversation

Kurt Shuster and 4 other authors

Dialogue in the Wild: Learning from a Deployed Role-Playing Game with Humans and Bots

Jack Urbanek and 4 other authors

I like fish, especially dolphins: Addressing Contradictions in Dialogue Modeling

Yixin Nie and 4 other authors

Dialogue in the Wild: Learning from a Deployed Role-Playing Game with Humans and Bots

Kurt Shuster and 4 other authors

Bot-Adversarial Dialogue for Safe Conversational Agents

Jing Xu and 5 other authors

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