124 - Semantic Machines and Task-Oriented Dialog, with Jayant Krishnamurthy and Hao Fang

We invited Jayant Krishnamurthy and Hao Fang, researchers at
Microsoft Semantic Machines to discuss their platform for building
task-oriented dialog systems, and their recent TACL paper on the
topic. The paper introduces a new formalism for task-oriented
dialog to effectively handle references and revisions in complex
dialog, and a large realistic dataset that uses this formalism.
Leaderboard associated with the dataset:
https://microsoft.github.io/task_oriented_dialogue_as_dataflow_synthesis/
Jayant's Twitter handle: https://twitter.com/jayantkrish Hao's
Twitter handle: https://twitter.com/hfang90