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title = "What{'}s The Latest? A Question-driven News Chatbot",
author = "Laban, Philippe and
Canny, John and
Hearst, Marti A.",
editor = "Celikyilmaz, Asli and
Wen, Tsung-Hsien",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations",
month = jul,
year = "2020",
address = "Online",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2020.acl-demos.43",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2020.acl-demos.43",
pages = "380--387",
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%T What’s The Latest? A Question-driven News Chatbot
%A Laban, Philippe
%A Canny, John
%A Hearst, Marti A.
%Y Celikyilmaz, Asli
%Y Wen, Tsung-Hsien
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%8 July
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%X This work describes an automatic news chatbot that draws content from a diverse set of news articles and creates conversations with a user about the news. Key components of the system include the automatic organization of news articles into topical chatrooms, integration of automatically generated questions into the conversation, and a novel method for choosing which questions to present which avoids repetitive suggestions. We describe the algorithmic framework and present the results of a usability study that shows that news readers using the system successfully engage in multi-turn conversations about specific news stories.
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Markdown (Informal)
[What’s The Latest? A Question-driven News Chatbot](https://aclanthology.org/2020.acl-demos.43) (Laban et al., ACL 2020)
ACL
- Philippe Laban, John Canny, and Marti A. Hearst. 2020. What’s The Latest? A Question-driven News Chatbot. In Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations, pages 380–387, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.