Alquist: The Alexa Prize Socialbot
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This paper describes a new open domain dialogue system Alquist developed as part of the Alexa Prize competition for the Amazon Echo line of products. The Alquist dialogue system is designed to conduct a coherent and engaging conversation on popular topics. We are presenting a hybrid system combining several machine learning and rule based approaches. We discuss and describe the Alquist pipeline, data acquisition, and processing, dialogue manager, NLG, knowledge aggregation and hierarchy of sub-dialogs. We present some of the experimental results.
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