Answering What-type and Who-type Questions for Non-task-oriented Dialogue Agents

Makoto Koshinda, Michimasa Inaba, Kenichi Takahashi

2018

Abstract

In this study, we propose a method for responding to what-type and who-type questions with no single fixed response handled by a non-taskoriented dialogue agent using Wikipedia as a language resource. The proposed method extracts nouns from a provided question text and then extracts an article from Wikipedia containing most of those nouns in its title. Next, words are extracted from the extracted article, and the degree of similarity between the extracted words and nouns extracted from question text is calculated. Words with a high degree of similarity are then acquired as response candidates. Next, the response candidates are ranked using the Wikipedia article structure and the text within the article, and the first-place response candidate is used for a response. According to the evaluation experiments, it was confirmed that the proposed method is capable of relatively natural responses in comparison to a baseline.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Koshinda M., Inaba M. and Takahashi K. (2018). Answering What-type and Who-type Questions for Non-task-oriented Dialogue Agents.In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 2: ICAART, ISBN 978-989-758-275-2, pages 287-294. DOI: 10.5220/0006517102870294

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icaart18,
author={Makoto Koshinda and Michimasa Inaba and Kenichi Takahashi},
title={Answering What-type and Who-type Questions for Non-task-oriented Dialogue Agents},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 2: ICAART,},
year={2018},
pages={287-294},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006517102870294},
isbn={978-989-758-275-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 2: ICAART,
TI - Answering What-type and Who-type Questions for Non-task-oriented Dialogue Agents
SN - 978-989-758-275-2
AU - Koshinda M.
AU - Inaba M.
AU - Takahashi K.
PY - 2018
SP - 287
EP - 294
DO - 10.5220/0006517102870294