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