Kevin Bowden

Computational Linguist, Cantina Labs

Joined

February 2024

Names

Kevin Bowden (Preferred)

Kevin K. Bowden

Emails

****@ucsc.edu (Confirmed)

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Computational Linguist

Cantina Labs (cantina.ai)

2025 – Present

PhD student

University of California Santa Cruz (ucsc.edu)

2016 – 2024

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Marilyn Walker

2016 – 2024

Expertise

Open-Domain Dialogue Systems

Present

Personalization and User Modeling

Present

Personalized Question Generation

Present

Synthetic Dialogue Generation

Present

Publications

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
Dialogue Scaffolding: Producing a Realistic Corpus of Human-Computer Open-Domain Dialogues Using a Spoken Dialogue System and ChatGPT
Kevin Bowden, Marilyn Walker
- Proceedings of the 26th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL'25)
- Readers: Everyone
User Moderling, Personalization, and Personalized Question Generation in Open-Domain Dialogue Systems
Kevin Bowden
- undefined 2024
- 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 Wang, Marilyn A. Walker
- EMNLP (Findings) 2024
- Readers: Everyone
Let's Get Personal: Personal Questions Improve SocialBot Performance in the Alexa Prize
Kevin K. Bowden, Marilyn A. Walker
- Published: 01 Jan 2023, Last Modified: 15 Apr 2024
- CoRR 2023
- 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
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
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: 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
Implicit Discourse Relation Identification for Open-domain Dialogues
Mingyu Derek Ma, Kevin Bowden, JiaQi Wu, Wen Cui, Marilyn A. Walker
- 2019 (modified: 20 Nov 2024)
- ACL (1) 2019
- Readers: Everyone

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Co-Authors

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