@inproceedings{laban-etal-2020-whats,
    title = "What{'}s The Latest? A Question-driven News Chatbot",
    author = "Laban, Philippe  and
      Canny, John  and
      Hearst, Marti A.",
    editor = "Celikyilmaz, Asli  and
      Wen, Tsung-Hsien",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations",
    month = jul,
    year = "2020",
    address = "Online",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-emnlp/2020.acl-demos.43/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2020.acl-demos.43",
    pages = "380--387",
    abstract = "This work describes an automatic news chatbot that draws content from a diverse set of news articles and creates conversations with a user about the news. Key components of the system include the automatic organization of news articles into topical chatrooms, integration of automatically generated questions into the conversation, and a novel method for choosing which questions to present which avoids repetitive suggestions. We describe the algorithmic framework and present the results of a usability study that shows that news readers using the system successfully engage in multi-turn conversations about specific news stories."
}