Publications

Selected Publications

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• Alexandros Papangelis, Mahdi Namazifar, Chandra Khatri, Yi-Chia Wang, Piero Molino, Gokhan Tur, "Plato Dialogue System: A Flexible Conversational AI Research Platform",  arXiv preprint

• Dian Yu, Chandra Khatri, Alexandros Papangelis, Andrea Madotto, Mahdi Namazifar, Joost Huizinga, Adrien Ecoffet, Huaixiu Zheng, Piero Molino, Jeff Clune, Zhou Yu, Kenji Sagae, Gokhan Tur, "Commonsense and Semantic-Guided Navigation through Language in Embodied Environment", NeurIPS 2019 VIGIL Workshop

• Chandra Khatri, Yue Weng, Sai Sumanth Miryala, Runze Wang, Huaixiu Zheng,Piero Molino, Mahdi Namazifar, Alexandros Papangelis, Hugh Williams, Franziska Bell, Gokhan Tur, "Joint Speech Recognition and Language Understanding using Multi-headed Seq2Seq Transformer Decoder (GPT/GPT-2)", ICASSP 2020

• Sanghyun Yi, Rahul Goel, Chandra Khatri, Tagyoung Chung, Behnam Hedayatnia, Anu Venkatesh, Raefer Gabriel, Dilek Hakkani-Tur, "Towards Coherent and Engaging Spoken Dialog Response Generation Using Automatic Conversation Evaluators" INLG 2019

• Alessandra Cervone, Chandra Khatri, Rahul Goel, Behnam Hedayatnia, Anu Venkatesh, Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Raefer Gabriel, "Natural Language Generation at Scale: A Case Study for Open Domain Question Answering" INLG 2019

• Chandra Khatri, Anu Venkatesh, Behnam Hedayatnia, Ashwin Ram, Raefer Gabriel, Rohit Prasad, "Alexa Prize-State of the Art in Conversational AI", AAAI AI Magazine 2018 

• Chandra Khatri, Behnam Hedayatnia, Anu Venkatesh, Raefer Gabriel, Arindam Mandal, Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Rohit Prasad, "Advancing the State of the Art in Open Domain Dialog Systems through the Alexa Prize", Alexa Prize 2018 Proceedings

• Ashwin Ram, Rohit Prasad, Chandra Khatri, Anu Venkatesh, Raefer Gabriel, Qing Liu, Jeff Nunn, Behnam Hedayatnia, "Conversational AI: The Science behind the Alexa Prize", Alexa Prize 2017 Proceedings

• Chandra Khatri, Rahul Goel, Behnam Hedayatnia, Angeliki Metanillou, Anushree Venkatesh, Raefer Gabriel, Arindam Mandal, "Contextual Topic Modeling For Dialog Systems" SLT 2018

• Anirudh Raju, Behnam Hedayatnia, Linda Liu, Ankur Gandhe, Chandra Khatri, Angeliki Metallinou, Anu Venkatesh, Ariya Rastrow, "Contextual Language Model Adaptation for Conversational Agents" INTERSPEECH 2018

• Chandra Khatri, Behnam Hedayatnia, Rahul Goel, Anushree Venkatesh, Raefer Gabriel, Arindam Mandal, "Detecting Offensive Content in Open-domain Conversations using Two Stage Semi-supervision" NeurIPS 2018 Conversational AI Workshop 

• Chandra Khatri, Gyanit Singh, Nish Parikh, "Abstractive and Extractive Text Summarization using Document Context Vector and Recurrent Neural Networks" KDD 2018

• Anu Venkatesh, Chandra Khatri, Ashwin Ram, Fenfei Guo, Raefer Gabriel, Ashish Nagar, Rohit Prasad, Ming Cheng, Behnam Hedayatnia, Angeliki Metallinou, Rahul Goel, Shaohua Yang, Anirudh Raju, "On Evaluating and Comparing Open Domain Dialog Systems",  NeurIPS 2017 Conversational AI Workshop 

• Fenfei Guo, Angeliki Metallinou, Chandra Khatri, Anirudh Raju, Anu Venkatesh, Ashwin Ram, "Topic-based evaluation for conversational bots", NeurIPS 2017 Conversational AI Workshop  

• Chandra Khatri, Suman Voleti, Sathish Veeraraghavan, Nish Parikh, Atiq Islam, Shifa Mahmood, Neeraj Garg, Vivek Singh, "Algorithmic content generation for products" IEEE Big Data Conference 2016

• Chandra Khatri, Selcuk Kopru, Nish Parikh, Justin Nicholas House, Sameep Navin Solanki, "Snippet generation and item description summarizer" 

• Chandra Khatri, "Real-time road traffic information detection through social media" Georgia Tech 2015

• Chandra Khatri, Nish Parikh, Sameep Navin Solanki, Justin Nicholas House, Gyanit Singh, "Snippet extractor: recurrent neural networks for text summarization at industry scale"

• Chandra Khatri, Steven Hui Luan, Michael Tanaka, Praveen K Boinapalli, "Systems, apparatuses, and methods for providing a ranking based recommendation"

• Saptarshi Sasmal, Chandra Khatri, Ramanjaneyulu Karusala, "Numerical simulation of performance of near-surface mounted FRP-upgraded beam–column sub-assemblages under cyclic loading"  Structure and Infrastructure Engineering 2015

• SB Singh, AL Reddy, C Khatri, "Experimental and parametric investigation of response of NSM CFRP-strengthened RC beams" Journal of Composites for Construction 2013 

• Saptarshi Sasmal, Chandra Khatri, K Ramanjaneyulu, V Srinivas, "Numerical evaluation of bond–slip relations for near-surface mounted carbon fiber bars embedded in concrete" Construction and Building Materials 2013

• SB Singh, Madappa VR Sivasubramanian, A Likhith Reddy, Khatri Chandra, K Nagarjuna, A Hima Kiran, "Performance of NSM-FRP RC beams in flexure and shear using locally developed CFRP rebars" International Journal of Sustainable Materials and Structural Systems 2012