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Douwe Kiela

Researcher at Facebook

Publications -  153
Citations -  11846

Douwe Kiela is an academic researcher from Facebook. The author has contributed to research in topics: Natural language & Computer science. The author has an hindex of 45, co-authored 152 publications receiving 8464 citations. Previous affiliations of Douwe Kiela include University of Cambridge & Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.

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Generating Interactive Worlds with Text

TL;DR: This work introduces neural network based models to compositionally arrange locations, characters, and objects into a coherent whole and shows that the game environments created with this approach are cohesive, diverse, and preferred by human evaluators compared to other machine learning based world construction algorithms.
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Deep Artificial Neural Networks Reveal a Distributed Cortical Network Encoding Propositional Sentence-Level Meaning.

TL;DR: InferSent as mentioned in this paper uses a recurrent deep artificial neural network (RNN) trained on a sentence inference task to transform word vectors into unified propositional sentence representations suitable for evaluating intersentence entailment relations.
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I like fish, especially dolphins: Addressing Contradictions in Dialogue Modeling

TL;DR: The authors introduce the DialoguE COntradiction DEtection task (DECODE) and a new conversational dataset containing both human-human and human-bot contradictory dialogues.
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Why Build an Assistant in Minecraft

TL;DR: A rationale for a research program aimed at building an open "assistant" in the game Minecraft, in order to make progress on the problems of natural language understanding and learning from dialogue.