Isard, Brockmann, and Oberlander (2006):
Individuality and Alignment in Generated Dialogues

Isard, Amy, Carsten Brockmann, and Jon Oberlander (2006). Individuality and alignment in generated dialogues. In Proceedings of the 4th International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG-06), Sydney, Australia, pp. 22–29.

Abstract

It would be useful to enable dialogue agents to project, through linguistic means, their individuality or personality. Equally, each member of a pair of agents ought to adjust its language (to a greater or lesser extent) to match that of its interlocutor. We describe CrAg, which generates dialogues between pairs of agents, who are linguistically distinguishable, but able to align. CrAg-2 makes use of OpenCCG and an over-generation and ranking approach, guided by a set of language models covering both personality and alignment. We illustrate with examples of output, and briefly note results from user studies with the earlier CrAg-1, indicating how CrAg-2 will be further evaluated. Related work is discussed, along with current limitations and future directions.

BibTeX Entry

@InProceedings{ibo06:iagd,
  author =	 {Isard, Amy and Brockmann, Carsten and Oberlander, Jon},
  title =	 {Individuality and Alignment in Generated Dialogues},
  booktitle =	 {Proceedings of the 4th International Natural Language
                  Generation Conference (INLG-06)},
  pages =	 {22--29},
  year =	 2006,
  address =	 {Sydney, Australia}
}