Abstract
We test state of the art dialogue systems for their behaviour in response to user-initiated sub-dialogues, i.e. interactions where a system question is responded to with a question or request from the user, who thus initiates a sub-dialogue. We look at sub-dialogues both within a single app (where the sub-dialogue concerns another topic in the original domain) and across apps (where the sub-dialogue concerns a different domain). The overall conclusion of the tests is that none of the systems can be said to deal appropriately with user-initiated sub-dialogues.- Anthology ID:
- W17-5503
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 18th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue
- Month:
- August
- Year:
- 2017
- Address:
- Saarbrücken, Germany
- Editors:
- Kristiina Jokinen, Manfred Stede, David DeVault, Annie Louis
- Venue:
- SIGDIAL
- SIG:
- SIGDIAL
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 17–22
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/W17-5503
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/W17-5503
- Cite (ACL):
- Staffan Larsson. 2017. User-initiated Sub-dialogues in State-of-the-art Dialogue Systems. In Proceedings of the 18th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue, pages 17–22, Saarbrücken, Germany. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- User-initiated Sub-dialogues in State-of-the-art Dialogue Systems (Larsson, SIGDIAL 2017)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-3/W17-5503.pdf