Bill Dolan
Managed Microsoft Research's NLP group; co-author of DialoGPT and the Microsoft Research Paraphrase Corpus
Bill Dolan was described in 2022 as a Partner Researcher Manager at Microsoft Research managing its Natural Language Processing group, with work on acquiring common-sense knowledge from text, paraphrasing, text rewriting, and grounded approaches to dialog. With Chris Brockett, Dolan described the creation of the Microsoft Research Paraphrase Corpus, a released set of 5,801 sentence pairs hand-labeled for whether they are paraphrases. Dolan is also a co-author of DialoGPT, a large pre-trained conversational response generation model whose code and model weights Microsoft released under the MIT license.12345
Work
DialoGPT (external site: github.com)Open weights
Co-author of "DialoGPT: Large-Scale Generative Pre-training for Conversational Response Generation" (ACL 2020 system demonstrations), which publicly released the pre-trained model and training pipeline; the repository lists the MIT license and the DialoGPT-medium model card on Hugging Face lists MIT.345
Microsoft Research Paraphrase Corpus (external site: microsoft.com)Open data
First author, with Chris Brockett, of the 2005 paper describing the creation of the recently released Microsoft Research Paraphrase Corpus of 5,801 hand-labeled sentence pairs.2
Other documented roles
Roles the sources document but that are not confirmed as current.
- Partner Researcher Manager, managing the Natural Language Processing group (as described in 2022), Microsoft Research13
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