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Mixed-initiative conversational system using question-answer pairs mined from the web

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Wilson Wong,

Lawrence Cavedon,

John Thangarajah,

Lin PadghamAuthors Info & Claims

CIKM '12: Proceedings of the 21st ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management

Pages 2707 - 2709

https://doi.org/10.1145/2396761.2398734

Published: 29 October 2012 Publication History

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One of the biggest bottlenecks for conversational systems is large-scale provision of suitable content. Our approach readily provides this without the need for custom-crafting. In this demonstration, we present the use of question-answer (QA) pairs mined from online question-and-answer websites to construct system utterances for a conversational agent. Our system uses QA pairs to formulate utterances that drive a conversation in addition to the answering of user questions as has been done in previous work. We use a collection of strategies that specify how and when the different parts of our question-answer pairs can be used and augmented with a small number of generic hand-crafted text snippets to generate natural and coherent system utterances.

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Mixed-initiative conversational system using question-answer pairs mined from the web
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Natural language processing
      1. Discourse, dialogue and pragmatics
2. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction paradigms
      1. Natural language interfaces

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CIKM '12: Proceedings of the 21st ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management

October 2012

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ISBN:9781450311564

DOI:10.1145/2396761

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Wayne State University, USA
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Georgia Institute of Technology
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Haixun Wang
Microsoft Research Asia
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