Marilyn Walker

Marilyn Walker

University of California, Santa Cruz

H-index: 78

North America-United States

About Marilyn Walker

Marilyn Walker, With an exceptional h-index of 78 and a recent h-index of 40 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at University of California, Santa Cruz, specializes in the field of Natural Language Processing, Natural Language Generation, Dialogue, Sentiment and Social Media, Narrative Modeling.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

Improving open-domain dialogue evaluation with a causal inference model

Controllable Generation of Dialogue Acts for Dialogue Systems via Few-Shot Response Generation and Ranking

Designing an AI Partner for Jigsaw classrooms

Let's Get Personal: Personal Questions Improve SocialBot Performance in the Alexa Prize

Dependency Dialogue Acts--Annotation Scheme and Case Study

A Transformer-based Response Evaluator for Open-Domain Spoken Conversation

Controlling personality style in dialogue with zero-shot prompt-based learning

Athena 2.0: Discourse and user modeling in open domain dialogue

Marilyn Walker Information

University

Position

Professor of Computer Science and Engineering

Citations(all)

19575

Citations(since 2020)

6069

Cited By

16065

hIndex(all)

78

hIndex(since 2020)

40

i10Index(all)

206

i10Index(since 2020)

128

Email

University Profile Page

University of California, Santa Cruz

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Marilyn Walker Skills & Research Interests

Natural Language Processing

Natural Language Generation

Dialogue

Sentiment and Social Media

Narrative Modeling

Top articles of Marilyn Walker

Title

Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

Improving open-domain dialogue evaluation with a causal inference model

arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.13372

Cat P Le

Luke Dai

Michael Johnston

Yang Liu

Marilyn Walker

...

2023/1/31

Controllable Generation of Dialogue Acts for Dialogue Systems via Few-Shot Response Generation and Ranking

arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.14440

Angela Ramirez

Karik Agarwal

Juraj Juraska

Utkarsh Garg

Marilyn A Walker

2023/7/26

Designing an AI Partner for Jigsaw classrooms

Workshop on Language-Based AI Agent Interaction with Children (AIAIC’2023)

Jie Cao

Rachel Dickler

Marie Grace

Jeffrey B Bush

Alessandro Roncone

...

2023

Let's Get Personal: Personal Questions Improve SocialBot Performance in the Alexa Prize

arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.04953

Kevin K Bowden

Marilyn Walker

2023/3/9

Dependency Dialogue Acts--Annotation Scheme and Case Study

arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.12944

Jon Z Cai

Brendan King

Margaret Perkoff

Shiran Dudy

Jie Cao

...

2023/2/25

A Transformer-based Response Evaluator for Open-Domain Spoken Conversation

arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.04424

Vrindavan Harrison

Rishi Rajasekaran

Marilyn Walker

2023/2/9

Controlling personality style in dialogue with zero-shot prompt-based learning

arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.03848

Angela Ramirez

Mamon Alsalihy

Kartik Aggarwal

Cecilia Li

Liren Wu

...

2023/2/8

Athena 2.0: Discourse and user modeling in open domain dialogue

arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.01887

Omkar Patil

Lena Reed

Kevin K Bowden

Juraj Juraska

Wen Cui

...

2023/8/3

Jurassic is (almost) all you need: Few-shot meaning-to-text generation for open-domain dialogue

Lena Reed

Cecilia Li

Angela Ramirez

Liren Wu

Marilyn Walker

2022/11/1

OpenEL: An annotated corpus for entity linking and discourse in open domain dialogue

Wen Cui

Leanne Rolston

Marilyn Walker

Beth Ann Hockey

2022/6

Modeling performance in open-domain dialogue with paradise

arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.11164

Marilyn Walker

Colin Harmon

James Graupera

Davan Harrison

Steve Whittaker

2021/10/21

Attention is indeed all you need: Semantically attention-guided decoding for data-to-text NLG

Juraj Juraska

Marilyn Walker

2021/8

Referential communication between friends and strangers in the wild

Dialogue & Discourse

Kris Liu

J Trevor D'Arcey

Marilyn Walker

Jean E. Fox Tree

2021/4/20

Athena 2.0: Contextualized dialogue management for an alexa prize socialbot

arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.02519

Juraj Juraska

Kevin K Bowden

Lena Reed

Vrindavan Harrison

Wen Cui

...

2021/11/3

Bridging the structural gap between encoding and decoding for data-to-text generation

Chao Zhao

Marilyn Walker

Snigdha Chaturvedi

2020/7

Athena: Constructing dialogues dynamically with discourse constraints

arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.10683

Vrindavan Harrison

Juraj Juraska

Wen Cui

Lena Reed

Kevin K Bowden

...

2020/11/21

Learning from mistakes: Combining ontologies via self-training for dialogue generation

arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.00150

Lena Reed

Vrindavan Harrison

Shereen Oraby

Dilek Hakkani-Tur

Marilyn Walker

2020/9/30

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Co-Authors

H-index: 81
Michael Kearns

Michael Kearns

University of Pennsylvania

H-index: 78
Steve Whittaker

Steve Whittaker

University of California, Santa Cruz

H-index: 77
Satinder Singh

Satinder Singh

University of Michigan-Dearborn

H-index: 64
Diane Litman

Diane Litman

University of Pittsburgh

H-index: 43
Allen Gorin

Allen Gorin

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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