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title = "Designing Multilingual Interactive Agents using Small Dialogue Corpora",
author = "Lin, Donghui and
Otani, Masayuki and
Okuno, Ryosuke and
Ishida, Toru",
editor = "Calzolari, Nicoletta and
B{\'e}chet, Fr{\'e}d{\'e}ric and
Blache, Philippe and
Choukri, Khalid and
Cieri, Christopher and
Declerck, Thierry and
Goggi, Sara and
Isahara, Hitoshi and
Maegaard, Bente and
Mariani, Joseph and
Mazo, H{\'e}l{\`e}ne and
Moreno, Asuncion and
Odijk, Jan and
Piperidis, Stelios",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference",
month = may,
year = "2020",
address = "Marseille, France",
publisher = "European Language Resources Association",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2020.lrec-1.83",
pages = "662--667",
abstract = "Interactive dialogue agents like smart speakers have become more and more popular in recent years. These agents are being developed on machine learning technologies that use huge amounts of language resources. However, many entities in specialized fields are struggling to develop their own interactive agents due to a lack of language resources such as dialogue corpora, especially when the end users need interactive agents that offer multilingual support. Therefore, we aim at providing a general design framework for multilingual interactive agents in specialized domains that, it is assumed, have small or non-existent dialogue corpora. To achieve our goal, we first integrate and customize external language services for supporting multilingual functions of interactive agents. Then, we realize context-aware dialogue generation under the situation of small corpora. Third, we develop a gradual design process for acquiring dialogue corpora and improving the interactive agents. We implement a multilingual interactive agent in the field of healthcare and conduct experiments to illustrate the effectiveness of the implemented agent.",
language = "English",
ISBN = "979-10-95546-34-4",
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Designing Multilingual Interactive Agents using Small Dialogue Corpora
%A Lin, Donghui
%A Otani, Masayuki
%A Okuno, Ryosuke
%A Ishida, Toru
%Y Calzolari, Nicoletta
%Y Béchet, Frédéric
%Y Blache, Philippe
%Y Choukri, Khalid
%Y Cieri, Christopher
%Y Declerck, Thierry
%Y Goggi, Sara
%Y Isahara, Hitoshi
%Y Maegaard, Bente
%Y Mariani, Joseph
%Y Mazo, Hélène
%Y Moreno, Asuncion
%Y Odijk, Jan
%Y Piperidis, Stelios
%S Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
%D 2020
%8 May
%I European Language Resources Association
%C Marseille, France
%@ 979-10-95546-34-4
%G English
%F lin-etal-2020-designing
%X Interactive dialogue agents like smart speakers have become more and more popular in recent years. These agents are being developed on machine learning technologies that use huge amounts of language resources. However, many entities in specialized fields are struggling to develop their own interactive agents due to a lack of language resources such as dialogue corpora, especially when the end users need interactive agents that offer multilingual support. Therefore, we aim at providing a general design framework for multilingual interactive agents in specialized domains that, it is assumed, have small or non-existent dialogue corpora. To achieve our goal, we first integrate and customize external language services for supporting multilingual functions of interactive agents. Then, we realize context-aware dialogue generation under the situation of small corpora. Third, we develop a gradual design process for acquiring dialogue corpora and improving the interactive agents. We implement a multilingual interactive agent in the field of healthcare and conduct experiments to illustrate the effectiveness of the implemented agent.
%U https://aclanthology.org/2020.lrec-1.83
%P 662-667
Markdown (Informal)
[Designing Multilingual Interactive Agents using Small Dialogue Corpora](https://aclanthology.org/2020.lrec-1.83) (Lin et al., LREC 2020)
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