2020
ACL
ACL 2020
What’s The Latest? A Question-driven News Chatbot
Abstract
AbstractThis work describes an automatic news chatbot that draws content from a diverse set of news articles and creates conversations with a user about the news. Key components of the system include the automatic organization of news articles into topical chatrooms, integration of automatically generated questions into the conversation, and a novel method for choosing which questions to present which avoids repetitive suggestions. We describe the algorithmic framework and present the results of a usability study that shows that news readers using the system successfully engage in multi-turn conversations about specific news stories.
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The Questioner
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Interdisciplinary Bridge
— Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
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Keyword Pioneer
— news chatbot
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Hot Topic Early Bird
— conversational ai
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Cross-Pollinator
— Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Computer Vision, Data Science & Analytics, Deep Learning, Healthcare & Medicine, Interdisciplinary, Knowledge & Reasoning, Machine Learning, Mathematics & Optimization, Natural Language Processing, Reinforcement Learning, Robotics, Security & Privacy, Speech & Audio