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title = "Role play-based question-answering by real users for building chatbots with consistent personalities",
author = "Higashinaka, Ryuichiro and
Mizukami, Masahiro and
Kawabata, Hidetoshi and
Yamaguchi, Emi and
Adachi, Noritake and
Tomita, Junji",
editor = "Komatani, Kazunori and
Litman, Diane and
Yu, Kai and
Papangelis, Alex and
Cavedon, Lawrence and
Nakano, Mikio",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 19th Annual {SIG}dial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue",
month = jul,
year = "2018",
address = "Melbourne, Australia",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/W18-5031",
doi = "10.18653/v1/W18-5031",
pages = "264--272",
abstract = "Having consistent personalities is important for chatbots if we want them to be believable. Typically, many question-answer pairs are prepared by hand for achieving consistent responses; however, the creation of such pairs is costly. In this study, our goal is to collect a large number of question-answer pairs for a particular character by using role play-based question-answering in which multiple users play the roles of certain characters and respond to questions by online users. Focusing on two famous characters, we conducted a large-scale experiment to collect question-answer pairs by using real users. We evaluated the effectiveness of role play-based question-answering and found that, by using our proposed method, the collected pairs lead to good-quality chatbots that exhibit consistent personalities.",
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%T Role play-based question-answering by real users for building chatbots with consistent personalities
%A Higashinaka, Ryuichiro
%A Mizukami, Masahiro
%A Kawabata, Hidetoshi
%A Yamaguchi, Emi
%A Adachi, Noritake
%A Tomita, Junji
%Y Komatani, Kazunori
%Y Litman, Diane
%Y Yu, Kai
%Y Papangelis, Alex
%Y Cavedon, Lawrence
%Y Nakano, Mikio
%S Proceedings of the 19th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue
%D 2018
%8 July
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Melbourne, Australia
%F higashinaka-etal-2018-role
%X Having consistent personalities is important for chatbots if we want them to be believable. Typically, many question-answer pairs are prepared by hand for achieving consistent responses; however, the creation of such pairs is costly. In this study, our goal is to collect a large number of question-answer pairs for a particular character by using role play-based question-answering in which multiple users play the roles of certain characters and respond to questions by online users. Focusing on two famous characters, we conducted a large-scale experiment to collect question-answer pairs by using real users. We evaluated the effectiveness of role play-based question-answering and found that, by using our proposed method, the collected pairs lead to good-quality chatbots that exhibit consistent personalities.
%R 10.18653/v1/W18-5031
%U https://aclanthology.org/W18-5031
%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/W18-5031
%P 264-272
Markdown (Informal)
[Role play-based question-answering by real users for building chatbots with consistent personalities](https://aclanthology.org/W18-5031) (Higashinaka et al., SIGDIAL 2018)
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