Maryam Zare EMNLP Paper

Maryam Zare (NLP Ph.D. Penn State) has a 2022 EMNLP paper based on her thesis: "A POMDP Dialogue Policy with 3-way Grounding and Adaptive Sensing for Learning through Communication".  Maryam, who has been at Apple since her graduation in August 2021, developed a single dialogue policy for an artificial agent to learn board games from people through multimodal dialogue interaction. It adapts its questions to its evolving perception of how informative the current dialogue partner is, and it can continue learning across dialogues.