Statistical Utterance Selection Using Word Co-occurrence for a Dialogue Agent

Authors:
Naoki Isomura;Fujio Toriumi;Kenichiro Ishii
Affiliations:
Graduate School of Information Science, Nagoya University, Japan;Graduate School of Information Science, Nagoya University, Japan;Graduate School of Information Science, Nagoya University, Japan
Venue:
PRIMA '09 Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Principles of Practice in Multi-Agent Systems
Year:
2009

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Abstract

In this paper, we proposed a statistical utterance selection method for dialogue agents by applying a machine learning algorithm. We defined statistical candidate utterance selection as a question that automatically selects an appropriate utterance from speech collections prepared in advance as responses. To realize automatic utterance evaluation, we employed manually evaluated data as learning data so that relative magnitude correlation will be learned from them.We checked the order of the automatically evaluated values to prove the validity of our proposed method. In this simulation, the result shows that the top appropriate utterance is selected at 47.5%, and it is selected within the top 10 at 78.0%. For implementing this method in agents that assist humans by replying, we found that it is quite possible to realize such an agent.