Creating Conversations: An Automated Dialog System

Lisa Gandy, Kristian Hammond

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Abstract

Online news sites often include a comments section where readers are allowed to leave their thoughts. These comments often contain interesting and insightful conversations between readers about the news article. However the richness of these conversations is often lost among other meaningless comments, and moreover all comments are found at the bottom of the web page. In this article, we discuss how our system inserts reader conversations into the news article to create a multimedia presentation called Shout Out. Shout Out features two virtual news anchors: one anchor reads the news and when appropriate the anchor pauses to have a conversation about the news with another anchor. This current iteration of Shout Out combines natural language techniques and reader conversations to create an engaging system.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 5th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, ICWSM 2011
PublisherAAAI Press
Pages482-485
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9781577355052
StatePublished - Jul 17 2011
Event5th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, ICWSM 2011 - Barcelona, Spain
Duration: Jul 17 2011Jul 21 2011

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 5th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, ICWSM 2011

Conference

Conference5th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, ICWSM 2011
Country/TerritorySpain
CityBarcelona
Period7/17/117/21/11

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Computer Networks and Communications

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