2018 NAACL NAACL 2018

Sounding Board: A User-Centric and Content-Driven Social Chatbot

Abstract

AbstractWe present Sounding Board, a social chatbot that won the 2017 Amazon Alexa Prize. The system architecture consists of several components including spoken language processing, dialogue management, language generation, and content management, with emphasis on user-centric and content-driven design. We also share insights gained from large-scale online logs based on 160,000 conversations with real-world users.

🧭 Keyword Pioneer — spoken language processing
🐣 Hot Topic Early Bird — conversational ai
🐝 Cross-Pollinator — Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Computer Vision, Data Science & Analytics, Deep Learning, Healthcare & Medicine, Interdisciplinary, Knowledge & Reasoning, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Reinforcement Learning, Speech & Audio