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Multiparty Conversation Facilitation Strategy Using Combination of Question Answering and Spontaneous Utterances

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Based on our analysis of entertaining multiparty conversations, participants tend to obey the cooperative conversational principle, and provide feedback so as to understand the current topic. In addition, they also speak to express their own idea and interest. In this paper, we describe a conversational robot system designed for constantly facilitating conversations with topic tracing capability, which is able to output a combination of answers to questions and spontaneous utterances.

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Shinjuku, Japan

    Yoichi Matsuyama, Akihiro Saito & Tetsunori Kobayashi

  2. MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Cambridge, USA

    Yushi Xu

  3. Waseda Institute of Advanced Study, Shinjuku, Japan

    Shinya Fujie

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Correspondence to Yoichi Matsuyama .

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    Ramón López-Cózar Delgado

  2. , Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering, Waseda University, Okubo 3-4-1, Tokyo, 169-8555, Japan

    Tetsunori Kobayashi

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Matsuyama, Y., Xu, Y., Saito, A., Fujie, S., Kobayashi, T. (2011). Multiparty Conversation Facilitation Strategy Using Combination of Question Answering and Spontaneous Utterances. In: Delgado, RC., Kobayashi, T. (eds) Proceedings of the Paralinguistic Information and its Integration in Spoken Dialogue Systems Workshop. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1335-6_12

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