Abstract
The paper describes topic shifting in dialogues with a robot that provides information from Wiki-pedia. The work focuses on a double topical construction of dialogue coherence which refers to discourse coherence on two levels: the evolution of dialogue topics via the interaction between the user and the robot system, and the creation of discourse topics via the content of the Wiki-pedia article itself. The user selects topics that are of interest to her, and the system builds a list of potential topics, anticipated to be the next topic, by the links in the article and by the keywords extracted from the article. The described system deals with Wikipedia articles, but could easily be adapted to other digital information providing systems.- Anthology ID:
- W16-4408
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Open Knowledge Base and Question Answering Workshop (OKBQA 2016)
- Month:
- December
- Year:
- 2016
- Address:
- Osaka, Japan
- Venue:
- WS
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee
- Note:
- Pages:
- 59–66
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/W16-4408
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Kristiina Jokinen and Graham Wilcock. 2016. Double Topic Shifts in Open Domain Conversations: Natural Language Interface for a Wikipedia-based Robot Application. In Proceedings of the Open Knowledge Base and Question Answering Workshop (OKBQA 2016), pages 59–66, Osaka, Japan. The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee.
- Cite (Informal):
- Double Topic Shifts in Open Domain Conversations: Natural Language Interface for a Wikipedia-based Robot Application (Jokinen & Wilcock, 2016)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingestion-script-update/W16-4408.pdf