We report on the design and development of the CASPR system, a socialbot designed to compete in the Amazon Alexa Socialbot Challenge 4. CASPR's distinguishing characteristic is that it will use automated commonsense reasoning to truly "understand" dialogs, allowing it to converse like a human. Three main requirements of a socialbot are that it should be able to "understand" users' utterances, possess a strategy for holding a conversation, and be able to learn new knowledge. We developed techniques such as conversational knowledge template (CKT) to approximate commonsense reasoning needed to hold a conversation on specific topics. We present the philosophy behind CASPR's design as well as details of its implementation. We also report on CASPR's performance as well as discuss lessons learned.
@article{arxiv.2110.05387,
title = {CASPR: A Commonsense Reasoning-based Conversational Socialbot},
author = {Kinjal Basu and Huaduo Wang and Nancy Dominguez and Xiangci Li and Fang Li and Sarat Chandra Varanasi and Gopal Gupta},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.05387},
year = {2021}
}
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4th Proceedings of Amazon Alexa Prize (Alexa Prize 2021)