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author = "Abrams, Mitchell and
Gessler, Luke and
Marge, Matthew",
editor = "Nakamura, Satoshi and
Gasic, Milica and
Zukerman, Ingrid and
Skantze, Gabriel and
Nakano, Mikio and
Papangelis, Alexandros and
Ultes, Stefan and
Yoshino, Koichiro",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 20th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue",
month = sep,
year = "2019",
address = "Stockholm, Sweden",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/W19-5948",
doi = "10.18653/v1/W19-5948",
pages = "418--421",
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T B. Rex: a dialogue agent for book recommendations
%A Abrams, Mitchell
%A Gessler, Luke
%A Marge, Matthew
%Y Nakamura, Satoshi
%Y Gasic, Milica
%Y Zukerman, Ingrid
%Y Skantze, Gabriel
%Y Nakano, Mikio
%Y Papangelis, Alexandros
%Y Ultes, Stefan
%Y Yoshino, Koichiro
%S Proceedings of the 20th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue
%D 2019
%8 September
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Stockholm, Sweden
%F abrams-etal-2019-b
%X We present B. Rex, a dialogue agent for book recommendations. B. Rex aims to exploit the cognitive ease of natural dialogue and the excitement of a whimsical persona in order to engage users who might not enjoy using more common interfaces for finding new books. B. Rex succeeds in making book recommendations with good quality based on only information revealed by the user in the dialogue.
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%U https://aclanthology.org/W19-5948
%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/W19-5948
%P 418-421
Markdown (Informal)
[B. Rex: a dialogue agent for book recommendations](https://aclanthology.org/W19-5948) (Abrams et al., SIGDIAL 2019)
ACL
- Mitchell Abrams, Luke Gessler, and Matthew Marge. 2019. B. Rex: a dialogue agent for book recommendations. In Proceedings of the 20th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue, pages 418–421, Stockholm, Sweden. Association for Computational Linguistics.