Davan Harrison

PhD student, Computer Science, University of California, Santa Cruz

Joined

August 2024

Names

Davan Harrison (Preferred)

Vrindavan Harrison

Emails

****@ucsc.edu (Confirmed)

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

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Career & Education History

PhD student

Computer Science, University of California, Santa Cruz (ucsc.edu)

2018 – 2026

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Marilyn Walker

2018 – 2026

Coauthor

Kevin Bowden

2017 – 2024

Coauthor

Shereen Oraby

2016 – 2019

Expertise

No areas of expertise listed

Publications

Neural Generation of Diverse Questions using Answer Focus, Contextual and Linguistic Features
Davan Harrison, Marilyn Walker
- Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Natural Language Generation
- Readers: Everyone
Active Listening: Personalized Question Generation in Open-Domain Social Conversation with User Model Based Prompting
Kevin Bowden, Yue Fan, Winson Chen, Wen Cui, Davan Harrison, Xin Eric Wang, Marilyn Walker
- Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024
- Readers: Everyone
Curate and generate: A corpus and method for joint control of semantics and style in neural nlg
Shereen Oraby, Davan Harrison, Abteen Ebrahimi, Marilyn Walker
- ACL, Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
- Readers: Everyone
Athena 2.0: Discourse and User Modeling in Open Domain Dialogue
Omkar Patil, Lena Reed, Kevin K. Bowden, Juraj Juraska, Wen Cui, Vrindavan Harrison, Rishi Rajasekaran, Angela Ramirez, Cecilia Li, Eduardo Zamora, Phillip Lee, Jeshwanth Bheemanpally, Rohan Pandey, Adwait Ratnaparkhi, Marilyn A. Walker
- Published: 01 Jan 2023, Last Modified: 15 Apr 2024
- CoRR 2023
- Readers: Everyone
Athena 2.0: Contextualized Dialogue Management for an Alexa Prize SocialBot
Juraj Juraska, Kevin K. Bowden, Lena Reed, Vrindavan Harrison, Wen Cui, Omkar Patil, Rishi Rajasekaran, Angela Ramirez, Cecilia Li, Eduardo Zamora, Phillip Lee, Jeshwanth Bheemanpally, Rohan Pandey, Adwait Ratnaparkhi, Marilyn A. Walker
- 2021 (modified: 15 Nov 2021)
- CoRR 2021
- Readers: Everyone
Athena 2.0: Contextualized Dialogue Management for an Alexa Prize SocialBot
Marilyn A. Walker, Vrindavan Harrison, Juraj Juraska, Lena Reed, Kevin Bowden, Wen Cui, Omkar Patil, Adwait Ratnaparkhi
- Published: 01 Jan 2021, Last Modified: 15 Apr 2024
- EMNLP (Demos) 2021
- Readers: Everyone
Learning from Mistakes: Combining Ontologies via Self-Training for Dialogue Generation
Lena Reed, Vrindavan Harrison, Shereen Oraby, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Marilyn A. Walker
- 2020 (modified: 25 Mar 2026)
- SIGdial 2020
- Readers: Everyone
Learning from Mistakes: Combining Ontologies via Self-Training for Dialogue Generation
Lena Reed, Vrindavan Harrison, Shereen Oraby, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Marilyn A. Walker
- 2020 (modified: 25 Mar 2026)
- CoRR 2020
- Readers: Everyone
Athena: Constructing Dialogues Dynamically with Discourse Constraints
Vrindavan Harrison, Juraj Juraska, Wen Cui, Lena Reed, Kevin K. Bowden, JiaQi Wu, Brian Schwarzmann, Abteen Ebrahimi, Rishi Rajasekaran, Nikhil Varghese, Max Wechsler-Azen, Steve Whittaker, Jeffrey Flanigan, Marilyn A. Walker
- 2020 (modified: 08 Nov 2021)
- CoRR 2020
- Readers: Everyone
The Impact of Multi-character Story Distribution and Gesture on Children's Engagement
Harrison Jesse Smith, Brian K. Riley, Lena Reed, Vrindavan Harrison, Marilyn A. Walker, Michael Neff
- ICIDS 2019
- Readers: Everyone

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