Project Grant 2143434
- This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program ($566,944) will support the development of purposeful conversational agents based on hierarchical knowledge graphs from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2025. The awardee, the Research Foundation for the State University of New York, will create a fully functional conversational agent that incorporates factual knowledge, logical reasoning, and persuasive conversation strategies....
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) provides $599,898 to The University of Kentucky Research Foundation to develop advanced, user-centric task-oriented dialog systems. The project aims to enhance the adaptability, flexibility, and personalization of these dialog systems by leveraging large-scale language models and reinforcement learning. Key goals include creating...
- This Project Grant award of $347,549 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program supports research to advance interactive language systems that can critically reason about and synthesize information from rich knowledge sources. The research aims to develop data-centric and algorithmic approaches to model the complexities of real-world scenarios, where users' questions are ambiguous, answers continuously change based on context, and...
- This $600,000 Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070), will support research by the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) to explore new approaches to conversational recommendation systems. The key objectives of this 3-year project include: 1) Collecting new datasets for training and evaluating conversational models that can provide personalized...
- This federal Project Grant award of $432,656 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program supports collaborative research to better align how artificial intelligence (AI) language models and humans process language. The primary goal is to understand why AI models, such as ChatGPT, do not process language in the same way as humans, particularly around handling temporary semantic ambiguity. The researchers will benchmark the AI models...
- This $339,927 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) will support Georgetown University's development of an intelligent conversational agent. The agent will be built on a hierarchical model-based deep reinforcement learning framework to enable proactive, two-way conversations that can dynamically detect opportunities to expand knowledge and explore new topics. The project...
- This $174,995 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program supports research to understand and optimize the role of human intelligence in data integration and discovery pipelines, especially in the context of emerging large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT. The project will investigate fundamental questions about human involvement in these data processes, uncover relevant human biases, and...
- This $543,539 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Information and Intelligent Systems, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), will fund research at Indiana University from May 2022 to April 2027 to investigate conversational user interfaces that support older adults' social well-being. The grantee will employ participatory design methods involving senior organizations and older adults to generate an empirical understanding...
- This $310,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program will fund research to study policies for interactive dialogue systems that can help programmers implement non-functional software requirements, particularly related to privacy and legal needs. The University of Maine System will lead this collaborative research project over a 3-year period from October 2025 to September 2028. The goal is to design...
- This $550,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program supports the development of generative artificial intelligence (AI)-powered products that enable humans to interact and converse with books and other documents. The key products being developed include: Technology to represent the informational content of books and document discussions as a knowledge graph, which will then be used to ground large...
This five-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Information and Intelligent Systems, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), provides $676,344 to the University of Massachusetts for research advancing conversational information retrieval. Specifically, the awardee will develop theoretical foundations and machine learning models for mixed-initiative interactions in information-seeking conversations that go beyond traditional query-response paradigms. This includes models for clarifying users' information needs and proactively providing relevant information during ongoing dialogs. Additionally, the awardee will create a conversational scholarly assistant agent and public data to further the field. The funding period is from July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2027.
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| Not listed | $465.4k | 8/16/22 | ||
| Not listed | $105.5k | 6/13/22 |