10 Important Research Papers In Conversational AI From 2019

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Conversational AI is becoming an integral part of business practice across industries. More companies are adopting the advantages chatbots bring to customer service, sales, and marketing. Even though chatbots are becoming a "must-have" asset for leading businesses, their performance is still very far from human. Researchers from major research institutions and tech leaders have explored ways to boost the performance of dialog systems by increasing the diversity of their responses, enabling emotion recognition, improving their ability to track long-term aspects of the conversation, ensuring the maintenance of a consistent persona, etc. We've searched through important conversational AI research papers published in 2019 to present you the top 10 that set the new state-of-the-art in both task-oriented and open-domain dialog systems. Subscribe to our AI Research mailing list at the bottom of this article to be alerted when we release new summaries.