Shrikant Malviya


2021

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Design and Development of Spoken Dialogue System in Indic Languages
Shrikant Malviya
Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON)

Based on the modular architecture of a task-oriented Spoken Dialogue System (SDS), the presented work focussed on constructing all the system components as statistical models with parameters learned directly from the data by resolving various language-specific and language-independent challenges. In order to understand the research questions that underlie the SLU and DST module in the perspective of Indic languages (Hindi), we collect a dialogue corpus: Hindi Dialogue Restaurant Search (HDRS) corpus and compare various state-of-the-art SLU and DST models on it. For the dialogue manager (DM), we investigate the deep-learning reinforcement learning (RL) methods, e.g. actor-critic algorithms with experience replay. Next, for the dialogue generation, we incorporated Recurrent Neural Network Language Generation (RNNLG) framework based models. For speech synthesisers as a last component in the dialogue pipeline, we not only train several TTS systems but also propose a quality assessment framework to evaluate them.

2017

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Sentiment Analysis: An Empirical Comparative Study of Various Machine Learning Approaches
Swapnil Jain | Shrikant Malviya | Rohit Mishra | Uma Shanker Tiwary
Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON-2017)