Spoken Conversational Search for General Knowledge
Lina M. Rojas-Barahona, Pascal Bellec, Benoit Besset, Martinho, Dos-Santos, Johannes Heinecke, Munshi Asadullah, Olivier Le-Blouch, Jean Y., Lancien, G\'eraldine Damnati, Emmanuel Mory, Fr\'ed\'eric Herledan
TL;DR
This paper introduces a spoken conversational question answering system that interacts with users about general knowledge from Wikidata, handling coreferences and ellipsis to improve dialogue coherence.
Contribution
It presents a novel proof of concept for spoken conversational search that integrates dialogue management with knowledge retrieval from Wikidata.
Findings
Successfully answers general knowledge questions via speech
Handles coreferences and ellipsis in conversations
Demonstrates feasibility of spoken conversational QA system
Abstract
We present a spoken conversational question answering proof of concept that is able to answer questions about general knowledge from Wikidata. The dialogue component does not only orchestrate various components but also solve coreferences and ellipsis.
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Taxonomy
TopicsTopic Modeling · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Speech and dialogue systems