Artificial conversations for customer service chatter bots: Architecture, algorithms, and evaluation metrics

作者:

Highlights:

• We describe limitations of the current generation of computer-based chatter-bots.

• We demonstrate structures and algorithms producing computer-based conversations.

• Our conversations combine semantic and pragmatic knowledge for customer service.

• Our computer-based dialogs are based on conversation theory and Grice’s maxims.

• We demonstrate methods to evaluate conversations in the customer service domain.

摘要

•We describe limitations of the current generation of computer-based chatter-bots.•We demonstrate structures and algorithms producing computer-based conversations.•Our conversations combine semantic and pragmatic knowledge for customer service.•Our computer-based dialogs are based on conversation theory and Grice’s maxims.•We demonstrate methods to evaluate conversations in the customer service domain.

论文关键词:Artificial conversations,Computational conversations,Conversation engineering,Conversation semantics,Applied computational linguistics,Applied natural language processing

论文评审过程:Available online 2 May 2015, Version of Record 30 May 2015.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2015.04.067