Shank 1975 - SAM — A Story Understander

Granger 1977 - FOUL-UP: A Program that Figures Out Meanings of Worcds from Context Really cool work. Uses “knowledge embodied in scripts to figure out likely definitions for unknown words.” Related to recent (2020s) work in common-sense reasoning.

Li et al 2016 - Dialogue Learning With Human-In-The-Loop

Li et al 2016 - Learning through Dialogue Interactions by Asking Questions

Chen et al 2017 - Reading Wikipedia to Answer Open-Domain Questions

Miller et al 2017 - ParlAI: A Dialog Research Software Platform

Zhang et al 2018 - Personalizing Dialogue Agents: I have a dog, do you have pets too?

Weston et al 2018 - Retrieve and Refine: Improved Sequence Generation Models For Dialogue

Welleck et al 2018 - Dialogue Natural Language Inference

Dinan et al 2018 - Wizard of Wikipedia: Knowledge-Powered Conversational Agents

Hancock et al 2019 - Learning from Dialogue after Deployment: Feed Yourself, Chatbot!

Kang et al 2019 - Recommendation as a Communication Game: Self-Supervised Bot-Play for Goal-oriented Dialogue

Roller et al 2020 - Open-Domain Conversational Agents: Current Progress, Open Problems, and Future Directions