
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
number of views
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