A multi-party attentive listening robot which stimulates involvement from side participants
Koji Inoue, Hiromi Sakamoto, Kenta Yamamoto, Divesh Lala, Tatsuya Kawahara
Abstract
We demonstrate the moderating abilities of a multi-party attentive listening robot system when multiple people are speaking in turns. Our conventional one-on-one attentive listening system generates listener responses such as backchannels, repeats, elaborating questions, and assessments. In this paper, additional robot responses that stimulate a listening user (side participant) to become more involved in the dialogue are proposed. The additional responses elicit assessments and questions from the side participant, making the dialogue more empathetic and lively.- Anthology ID:
- 2021.sigdial-1.28
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
- Month:
- July
- Year:
- 2021
- Address:
- Singapore and Online
- Editors:
- Haizhou Li, Gina-Anne Levow, Zhou Yu, Chitralekha Gupta, Berrak Sisman, Siqi Cai, David Vandyke, Nina Dethlefs, Yan Wu, Junyi Jessy Li
- Venue:
- SIGDIAL
- SIG:
- SIGDIAL
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 261–264
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2021.sigdial-1.28
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/2021.sigdial-1.28
- Cite (ACL):
- Koji Inoue, Hiromi Sakamoto, Kenta Yamamoto, Divesh Lala, and Tatsuya Kawahara. 2021. A multi-party attentive listening robot which stimulates involvement from side participants. In Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, pages 261–264, Singapore and Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- A multi-party attentive listening robot which stimulates involvement from side participants (Inoue et al., SIGDIAL 2021)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/landing_page/2021.sigdial-1.28.pdf