What’s The Latest? A Question-driven News Chatbot
Philippe Laban, John Canny, Marti A. Hearst
System Demonstrations Demo Paper
Demo Session 4C-3: Jul 8
(18:30-19:30 GMT)
Demo Session 5C-3: Jul 8
(21:30-22:30 GMT)
Abstract:
This 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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