Crowdsourced Knowledge Base Construction using Text-Based Conversational Agents

Knowledge Base Construction (KBC) is a challenging and complex task involving several substeps and many experts of a knowledge domain. Crowdsourcing approach has been used to support KBC with promising scalability and output quality, but to enable even more people to participate in KBC, there is a need to broaden the pool of workers beyond the...

Helping Chatbots To Better Understand User Requests Efficiently Using Human Computation

Chatbots are the text based conversational agents with which users interact in natural language. They are becoming more and more popular with the immense growth in messaging apps and tools to develop text based conversational agents. Despite of advances in Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing, chatbots still struggle in...