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Generating Funny Dialogue between Robots based on Japanese Traditional Comedy Entertainment

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Ryo Mashimo,

Tomohiro Umetani,

Tatsuya Kitamura,

Akiyo NadamotoAuthors Info & Claims

IE2014: Proceedings of the 2014 Conference on Interactive Entertainment

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2677758.2677769

Published: 02 December 2014 Publication History

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Numerous studies have examined entertainments robots that communicate with people, but it is difficult for robots to communicate smoothly with people. We specifically examine communication with robots based on a humorous dialogue between entertainment robots. At this time, scenarios consisting of humorous dialogue must be produced for robots to use. In this paper, we propose a system that generates humorous dialogue scenarios automatically from web news articles in real time. Japan has a traditional humorous comedy called "Manzai", a kind of standup comedy. Manzai typically consists of two comedians performing humorous dialogue. We use the Manzai metaphor in our system. Our generated Manzai scenario consists of fluffy patter and dialogue filled with misunderstanding in three parts: Introduction, Body, and Conclusion. The Introduction includes a greeting and presentation of the theme of the original web content. The Body includes component of four types used to generate funny dialogue. The Conclusion includes automatically generated riddles related to words in news from the internet. We create entertainment robots to amuse people with our generated humorous robot dialogue scenario.

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