{"paper":{"title":"A Talker Ensemble: the University of Wroc{\\l}aw's Entry to the NIPS 2017 Conversational Intelligence Challenge","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":[],"primary_cat":"cs.CL","authors_text":"Adrian {\\L}a\\'ncucki, Jan Chorowski, Maciej Pawlikowski, Pawe{\\l} Rychlikowski, Pawe{\\l} Zykowski, Szymon Malik","submitted_at":"2018-05-21T13:07:31Z","abstract_excerpt":"We present Poetwannabe, a chatbot submitted by the University of Wroc{\\l}aw to the NIPS 2017 Conversational Intelligence Challenge, in which it ranked first ex-aequo. It is able to conduct a conversation with a user in a natural language. The primary functionality of our dialogue system is context-aware question answering (QA), while its secondary function is maintaining user engagement. The chatbot is composed of a number of sub-modules, which independently prepare replies to user's prompts and assess their own confidence. To answer questions, our dialogue system relies heavily on factual dat"},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"1805.08032","kind":"arxiv","version":1},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}