Challenging Neural Dialogue Models with Natural Data

Challenging Neural Dialogue Models with Natural Data: Memory Networks Fail on Incremental Phenomena

https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.07840

Neural networks are, in the immortal words of Mugatu, “so hot right now”. In the frenzied attempt to apply them to every known problem from image processing to NLP, very few people (or at least very few papers) stop to ask the question, “Is this really the right tool for the job?” This, as you may have guessed, is one of the few papers that does.

About the Presenter:

Josh Ziegler is a Principal Software Engineer at Pylon ai, a pronounced logophile, and co-hosts The Screeners podcast when he's not listening to Lana Del Rey.