Influence of user personality on dialogue task performance: A case study using a rule-based dialogue system

Ao Guo, Atsumoto Ohashi, Ryu Hirai, Yuya Chiba, Yuiko Tsunomori, Ryuichiro Higashinaka


Abstract
Endowing a task-oriented dialogue system with adaptiveness to user personality can greatly help improve the performance of a dialogue task. However, such a dialogue system can be practically challenging to implement, because it is unclear how user personality influences dialogue task performance. To explore the relationship between user personality and dialogue task performance, we enrolled participants via crowdsourcing to first answer specified personality questionnaires and then chat with a dialogue system to accomplish assigned tasks. A rule-based dialogue system on the prevalent Multi-Domain Wizard-of-Oz (MultiWOZ) task was used. A total of 211 participants’ personalities and their 633 dialogues were collected and analyzed. The results revealed that sociable and extroverted people tended to fail the task, whereas neurotic people were more likely to succeed. We extracted features related to user dialogue behaviors and performed further analysis to determine which kind of behavior influences task performance. As a result, we identified that average utterance length and slots per utterance are the key features of dialogue behavior that are highly correlated with both task performance and user personality.
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2021.nlp4convai-1.25
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Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Conversational AI
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November
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2021
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Online
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Alexandros Papangelis, Paweł Budzianowski, Bing Liu, Elnaz Nouri, Abhinav Rastogi, Yun-Nung Chen
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NLP4ConvAI
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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263–270
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https://aclanthology.org/2021.nlp4convai-1.25
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10.18653/v1/2021.nlp4convai-1.25
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Ao Guo, Atsumoto Ohashi, Ryu Hirai, Yuya Chiba, Yuiko Tsunomori, and Ryuichiro Higashinaka. 2021. Influence of user personality on dialogue task performance: A case study using a rule-based dialogue system. In Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Conversational AI, pages 263–270, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Influence of user personality on dialogue task performance: A case study using a rule-based dialogue system (Guo et al., NLP4ConvAI 2021)
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