Humor Prevails! - Implementing a Joke Generator into a Conversational System

Authors:
Pawel Dybala;Michal Ptaszynski;Shinsuke Higuchi;Rafal Rzepka;Kenji Araki
Affiliations:
Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan 060-0814;Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan 060-0814;Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan 060-0814;Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan 060-0814;Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan 060-0814
Venue:
AI '08 Proceedings of the 21st Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Advances in Artificial Intelligence
Year:
2008

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Abstract

This paper contains the results of evaluation experiments conducted to investigate if implementation of a pun generator into a non-task oriented talking system improves the latter's performance. We constructed a simple joking conversational system and conducted one user evaluation experiment and two third person evaluation experiments. The results showed that humor does have a positive influence on the dialogue between humans and computers. The implications of this fact and problems that occurred during the research are discussed. We also propose how they can be solved in the future.