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A Hybrid Architecture for Multi-Party Conversational Systems

Computation and Language 2017-05-08 v2

Abstract

Multi-party Conversational Systems are systems with natural language interaction between one or more people or systems. From the moment that an utterance is sent to a group, to the moment that it is replied in the group by a member, several activities must be done by the system: utterance understanding, information search, reasoning, among others. In this paper we present the challenges of designing and building multi-party conversational systems, the state of the art, our proposed hybrid architecture using both rules and machine learning and some insights after implementing and evaluating one on the finance domain.

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@article{arxiv.1705.01214,
  title  = {A Hybrid Architecture for Multi-Party Conversational Systems},
  author = {Maira Gatti de Bayser and Paulo Cavalin and Renan Souza and Alan Braz and Heloisa Candello and Claudio Pinhanez and Jean-Pierre Briot},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.01214},
  year   = {2017}
}
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