Causality Reasoning for Empathy-Enriched and Personality-Conditioned Spoken Dialogue System

Yahui Fu


Abstract
The author’s objective centers around developing a spoken dialogue system (SDS) that can emulate the cognitive and conversational qualities of a human friend. Key attributes such as empathy, knowledge/causality reasoning, and personality are integral components of human interaction. The proposed approach involves the creation of an Empathy-enriched SDS, capable of comprehending human emotions and circumstances, thus providing companionship and assistance akin to a trusted friend. Additionally, the Causality-reasoning for SDS aims to ground the system in commonsense knowledge and equip it with the ability to reason about causalities, such as predicting user desires/reactions and system intentions/reactions, thereby enhancing the system’s intelligence and human-like behavior. Finally, the concept of a Personality-conditioned SDS involves enabling systems to exhibit distinct personalities, further enhancing the naturalness of human-robot interaction.
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2023.yrrsds-1.23
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Proceedings of the 19th Annual Meeting of the Young Reseachers' Roundtable on Spoken Dialogue Systems
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September
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2023
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Prague, Czechia
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Vojtech Hudecek, Patricia Schmidtova, Tanvi Dinkar, Javier Chiyah-Garcia, Weronika Sieinska
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YRRSDS | WS
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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62–63
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Yahui Fu. 2023. Causality Reasoning for Empathy-Enriched and Personality-Conditioned Spoken Dialogue System. In Proceedings of the 19th Annual Meeting of the Young Reseachers' Roundtable on Spoken Dialogue Systems, pages 62–63, Prague, Czechia. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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