Kevin Jesse

Hi! I am a Ph.D student in natural language processing! I am interested in dialog, multimodal, seq2seq, and recommendation systems. I am part of an awesome team that is competing in the Alexa Prize. We are in the finals!

My advisor is the wonderful Zhou Yu.

Publications

Gunrock: An Alexa Prize Social Bot (pending Alexa Prize Finals)
Chun-Yen Chen, Dian Yu, Weiming Wen, Yi Mang Yang, Jiaping Zhang, Mingyang Zhou, Kevin Jesse, Austin Chau, Antara Bhowmick, Shreenath Iyer, Giritheja Sreenivasulu, Runxiang Cheng, Ashwin Bhandare, Zhou Yu

Projects

Chatbot

A Recommendation Dialog System Driven by Collarborative Filtering [pdf]

Lyric Generation using Nueral Machine Translation Model

Lyric Generation with Neural Machine Translation [pdf]

PUMA

Parallel Unconcentrated Management for Applications (PUMA) Applied to Dialog Systems [pdf]

Opinion Generation using Nueral Machine Translation Model

Propose opinion generation for real time systems using Gunrock: An Alexa Prize Social Bot

Trending Knowledge Graph Generation

Generation of topical knowledge graphs for Gunrock: An Alexa Prize Social bot

Datasets

Opinion dataset

Opinions on various topics ranging from politics, movies, entertainment, society and more from debate.org totalling over 460,000 opinions. Used in the Alexa prize with a universal sentence embeddings. Find it here.

Reddit News Dataset

News topics ranging from science, technology, politics, health, and more with comments. Contains 3000 news events with over 11,000 comments. Find it here.

Teaching

ECS 189G: Natural Language Processing

Previous work

I have enjoyed working on proof of concepts, feature development and sustaining at Cisco Systems for the Identity Service Engine. I also enjoyed working at startup ThinkHR where I designed a single environment that brought together existing tools and services.