Summary of the paper
| Title | Constructive Interaction for Talking about Interesting Topics |
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| Authors | Kristiina Jokinen and Graham Wilcock |
| Abstract | The paper discusses mechanisms for topic management in conversations, concentrating on interactions where the interlocutors react to each other's presentation of new information and construct a shared context in which to exchange information about interesting topics. This is illustrated with a robot simulator that can talk about unrestricted (open-domain) topics that the human interlocutor shows interest in. Wikipedia is used as the source of information from which the robotic agent draws its world knowledge. |
| Topics | Dialogue, Question Answering, Tools, systems, applications |
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Constructive Interaction for Talking about Interesting Topics |
| Bibtex | @InProceedings{JOKINEN12.151, author = {Kristiina Jokinen and Graham Wilcock}, title = {Constructive Interaction for Talking about Interesting Topics}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Eight International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12)}, year = {2012}, month = {may}, date = {23-25}, address = {Istanbul, Turkey}, editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference Chair) and Khalid Choukri and Thierry Declerck and Mehmet Uğur Doğan and Bente Maegaard and Joseph Mariani and Asuncion Moreno and Jan Odijk and Stelios Piperidis}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, isbn = {978-2-9517408-7-7}, language = {english} } |