Presentation 2023-03-01
A Study of Utterance Generation Models based on TV Programs and Interests
Yuta Hagio, Makoto Okuda, Marina Kamimura, Yutaka Kaneko, Hisayuki Ohmata,
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Abstract(in English) In this paper, we discuss the results of a study of an utterance generation model based on TV programs and specifiedinterest words, with the aim of implementing it in a companion robot that watches TV with humans. In order to automaticallygenerate the robot’s utterances while watching TV, we created a TV program-related utterance dataset by adding about 12,000robot utterances to the program’s captions. Using this dataset, we built an utterance generation model by fine-tuning a large-scalegeneral-purpose language model for chat dialog. Our model can generate utterances with the given specified interest wordas the topic, taking into account the context of the TV program using its captions and the interest word. As a result of evaluationof the sentences generated by our model, we confirmed that about 88% of the sentences are natural Japanese sentences, andabout 75% of the sentences are natural sentences in the context of the program. In addition, about 83% of the utterancesreflected the specified interest words. It was found that our model can generate utterances that are natural in the context of theprogram’s captions and that suggest interest in the specified interest words.
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Keyword(in English) Companion robot / TV-viewing / Utterance generation / Caption data / Interest words
Paper # BioX2022-64,CNR2022-30
Date of Issue 2023-02-22 (BioX, CNR)

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Committee CNR / BioX
Conference Date 2023/3/1(2days)
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Chair Masayuki Kanbara(NAIST) / Hitoshi Imaoka(NEC)
Vice Chair Yuri Nishikawa(AIST) / Norihiko Okui(KDDI Research) / Naoyuki Takada(SECOM)
Secretary Yuri Nishikawa(Toshiba) / Norihiko Okui(Nagoya Sangyo Univ.) / Naoyuki Takada(NEC)
Assistant Yuta Hoshi(NHK) / Junji Yamato(Kogakuin Univ.) / Hiroyuki Suzuki(Gunma Univ) / Shinichi Shirakawa(Yokohama National Univ.)

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Registration To Technical Committee on Cloud Network Robotics / Technical Committee on Biometrics
Language JPN
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Title (in English) A Study of Utterance Generation Models based on TV Programs and Interests
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Keyword(1) Companion robot
Keyword(2) TV-viewing
Keyword(3) Utterance generation
Keyword(4) Caption data
Keyword(5) Interest words
1st Author's Name Yuta Hagio
1st Author's Affiliation Japan Broadcasting Corporation(NHK)
2nd Author's Name Makoto Okuda
2nd Author's Affiliation Japan Broadcasting Corporation(NHK)
3rd Author's Name Marina Kamimura
3rd Author's Affiliation Japan Broadcasting Corporation(NHK)
4th Author's Name Yutaka Kaneko
4th Author's Affiliation Japan Broadcasting Corporation(NHK)
5th Author's Name Hisayuki Ohmata
5th Author's Affiliation Japan Broadcasting Corporation(NHK)
Date 2023-03-01
Paper # BioX2022-64,CNR2022-30
Volume (vol) vol.122
Number (no) BioX-394,CNR-395
Page pp.pp.13-18(BioX), pp.13-18(CNR),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2023-02-22 (BioX, CNR)