Abstract
The paper discusses mechanisms for topic management in conversations, concentrating on interactions where the interlocutors react to each other's presentation of new information and construct a shared context in which to exchange information about interesting topics. This is illustrated with a robot simulator that can talk about unrestricted (open-domain) topics that the human interlocutor shows interest in. Wikipedia is used as the source of information from which the robotic agent draws its world knowledge.- Anthology ID:
- L12-1024
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12)
- Month:
- May
- Year:
- 2012
- Address:
- Istanbul, Turkey
- Venue:
- LREC
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
- Note:
- Pages:
- 404–410
- Language:
- URL:
- http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2012/pdf/151_Paper.pdf
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Kristiina Jokinen and Graham Wilcock. 2012. Constructive Interaction for Talking about Interesting Topics. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12), pages 404–410, Istanbul, Turkey. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
- Cite (Informal):
- Constructive Interaction for Talking about Interesting Topics (Jokinen & Wilcock, LREC 2012)
- PDF:
- http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2012/pdf/151_Paper.pdf