Enrique Alfonseca is a Staff Research Scientist at Google Research Europe, where
he manages a team working on language understanding. Over the past ten years, he
has worked at Google in ads quality, search quality and natural language processing,
with a current focus on conversational search.
Abstract: In this talk, I will discuss some of the challenges that conversational search
faces in providing information to users. Some of them stem from the fact that many
questions are answered with snippets from the web, which may not be the most
appropriate to be inserted inside conversations. Secondly, I will describe in more
detail the sentence compression and summarization approaches that are running
in production in Google Home for improving the user experience around question
answering.
Accepted papers and Proposed Schedule
April 3rd, 2017
09:30 - 11:00
Opening and Invited talk
09:30 - 09:45
MultiLing 2017 Welcome George Giannakopoulos
09:45 - 11:00
Invited talk: Sentence Compression for Conversational Search Enrique Alfonseca, Google
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee break
11:30 - 13:00
MultiLing Tasks and Systems I Chair: John Conroy, IDA Co-Chair: Elena Lloret, Univ. of Alicante
11:30 - 11:50
MultiLing 2017 Overview George Giannakopoulos1, John Conroy2, Jeff Kubina3, Peter A. Rankel4, Elena Lloret5, Josef Steinberger6, Marina Litvak7, Benoit Favre8 1NCSR Demokritos & SciFY NPC, 2IDA Center for Computing Sciences, 3U.S. Department of Defense, 4University of Maryland, 5University of Alicante, 6University of West Bohemia, 7Shamoon College of Engineering, 8Aix-Marseille University LIF/CNRS