@InProceedings{yusupov-kuratov:2018:C18-1,
  author    = {Yusupov, Idris  and  Kuratov, Yurii},
  title     = {NIPS Conversational Intelligence Challenge 2017 Winner System: Skill-based Conversational Agent with Supervised Dialog Manager},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics},
  month     = {August},
  year      = {2018},
  address   = {Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  pages     = {3681--3692},
  abstract  = {We present bot\#1337: a dialog system developed for the 1st NIPS Conversational Intelligence Challenge 2017 (ConvAI). The aim of the competition was to implement a bot capable of conversing with humans based on a given passage of text. To enable conversation, we implemented a set of skills for our bot, including chit-chat, topic detection, text summarization, question answering and question generation. The system has been trained in a supervised setting using a dialogue manager to select an appropriate skill for generating a response. The latter allows a developer to focus on the skill implementation rather than the finite state machine based dialog manager. The proposed system bot\#1337 won the competition with an average dialogue quality score of 2.78 out of 5 given by human evaluators. Source code and trained models for the bot\#1337 are available on GitHub.},
  url       = {http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/C18-1312}
}