Towards Building a Spoken Dialogue System for Argument Exploration
Annalena Aicher, Nadine Gerstenlauer, Isabel Feustel, Wolfgang Minker, Stefan Ultes
Abstract
Speech interfaces for argumentative dialogue systems (ADS) are rather scarce. The complex task they pursue hinders the application of common natural language understanding (NLU) approaches in this domain. To address this issue we include an adaption of a recently introduced NLU framework tailored to argumentative tasks into a complete ADS. We evaluate the likeability and motivation of users to interact with the new system in a user study. Therefore, we compare it to a solid baseline utilizing a drop-down menu. The results indicate that the integration of a flexible NLU framework enables a far more natural and satisfying interaction with human users in real-time. Even though the drop-down menu convinces regarding its robustness, the willingness to use the new system is significantly higher. Hence, the featured NLU framework provides a sound basis to build an intuitive interface which can be extended to adapt its behavior to the individual user.- Anthology ID:
- 2022.lrec-1.131
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
- Month:
- June
- Year:
- 2022
- Address:
- Marseille, France
- Venue:
- LREC
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- European Language Resources Association
- Note:
- Pages:
- 1234–1241
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2022.lrec-1.131
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Annalena Aicher, Nadine Gerstenlauer, Isabel Feustel, Wolfgang Minker, and Stefan Ultes. 2022. Towards Building a Spoken Dialogue System for Argument Exploration. In Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 1234–1241, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
- Cite (Informal):
- Towards Building a Spoken Dialogue System for Argument Exploration (Aicher et al., LREC 2022)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingestion-script-update/2022.lrec-1.131.pdf