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# Layla El Asri

2 papers on this site · 2017–2018

Layla El Asri has 2 papers on this site, in 2017–2018, most of them on [Dialogue systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/); often with [Emery Fine](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/emery-fine/), [Hannes Schulz](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hannes-schulz/), [Justin Harris](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/justin-harris/).

[OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5049090525) · [**h-index 17**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5049090525) · [32 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5049090525) · [1 136 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5049090525&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

[2 works on this site](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/layla-el-asri/#papers) · [285 citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/layla-el-asri/cited-by/) · 1 more work in our library

The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart.

Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Layla+El+Asri) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Layla+El+Asri) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Layla+El+Asri) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Layla+El+Asri)

## Affiliations

- [Microsoft (United States)](https://ror.org/00d0nc645) · Redmond, United States —2018–2020 on 6 papers
- [Georgia Institute of Technology](https://ror.org/01zkghx44) · Atlanta, United States —2013–2017 on 5 papers
- [Georgia Tech-CNRS Laboratory](https://ror.org/00avmbz91) · Metz, France —2013–2016 on 7 papers
- [Orange (France)](https://ror.org/035j0tq82) · Paris, France —2013–2016 on 7 papers
- [Georgia Tech-Europe](https://ror.org/02m5dy175) · Metz, France —2014–2016 on 6 papers
- [Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique](https://ror.org/02feahw73) · Paris, France —2013–2016 on 2 papers

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 4 more institutions on single bylines are not listed.

## Topics

[Dialogue systems 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/)

## Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. **[TextWorld: A Learning Environment for Text-based Games](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/cote-2018-textworld-learning-environment-text-based/)** *(2018 · 331 citations)* Text adventure games such as Zork are a hard testbed for reinforcement learning. Both the observations and the actions are free-form, compositional language, the world is only partly visible, and rewards are rare. Hand-written games of this kind remain out of reach for current agents. The authors present TextWorld, a…
2. **[Frames: a corpus for adding memory to goal-oriented dialogue systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/asri-2017-frames-corpus-adding-memory-goal/)** *(2017 · 326 citations)* Most goal-oriented dialogue datasets reflect linear slot-filling: the system gathers constraints, queries a database, and returns results.

## Also in our library

1 more work of theirs is in our library without a page here yet; it will appear as we publish them.

## Co-authors here

7 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first.

- [Emery Fine](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/emery-fine/) ×2
- [Hannes Schulz](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hannes-schulz/)
- [Justin Harris](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/justin-harris/)
- [Kaheer Suleman](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kaheer-suleman/)
- [Marc-Alexandre Cote](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/marc-alexandre-cote/)
- [Matthew Hausknecht](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/matthew-hausknecht/)
- [Xingdi Yuan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xingdi-yuan/)

## Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 285 times (of the 140 884 papers whose bibliographies we read); [23 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/layla-el-asri/cited-by/).