Presentation 2017-10-19
User adaptation of examples for example-based reminiscence therapy spoken dialog system using word embedding
Eichi Seto, Ryota Nishimura, Norihide Kitaoka,
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Abstract(in English) We are developing a spoken dialog system for reminiscence therapy. We propose an example-based dialog system featuring an adaptation method which customizes the dialog for each user. We generate phrases adapted to the user by calculating the cosine similarity between words and substituting user-related words for highly similar words in the original example phrases. We manually evaluated the naturalness of the generated phrases and found that the system could generate natural-sounding phrases. Word2vec can give word distributed representations enabling to calculate addition and subtraction. Using this feature, we were able to derive replacement of words for the example phrases by applying operations to the words used in the original phrases, improving the success rate for generating natural-sounding phrases.
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Keyword(in English) reminiscence therapy / example-based dialog system / user adaptation / word2vec
Paper # SP2017-38,WIT2017-34
Date of Issue 2017-10-12 (SP, WIT)

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Committee WIT / SP
Conference Date 2017/10/19(2days)
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Place (in English) Tobata Library of Kyutech (Kitakyushu)
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Chair Chikamune Wada(Kyushu Inst. of Tech.) / Yoichi Yamashita(Ritsumeikan Univ.)
Vice Chair Daisuke Wakatsuki(Tsukuba Univ. of Tech.) / Hiroki Mori(Utsunomiya Univ.)
Secretary Daisuke Wakatsuki(Nagoya Inst. of Tech.) / Hiroki Mori(AIST)
Assistant Takeaki Shionome(*) / Manabi Miyagi(Tsukuba Univ. of Tech.) / Takashi Handa(Saitama Industrial Technology Center) / Kei Hashimoto(Nagoya Inst. of Tech.) / Satoshi Kobashikawa(NTT)

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Registration To Technical Committee on Well-being Information Technology / Technical Committee on Speech
Language JPN
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Title (in English) User adaptation of examples for example-based reminiscence therapy spoken dialog system using word embedding
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) reminiscence therapy
Keyword(2) example-based dialog system
Keyword(3) user adaptation
Keyword(4) word2vec
1st Author's Name Eichi Seto
1st Author's Affiliation Tokushima University(Tokushima Univ.)
2nd Author's Name Ryota Nishimura
2nd Author's Affiliation Tokushima University(Tokushima Univ.)
3rd Author's Name Norihide Kitaoka
3rd Author's Affiliation Tokushima University(Tokushima Univ.)
Date 2017-10-19
Paper # SP2017-38,WIT2017-34
Volume (vol) vol.117
Number (no) SP-250,WIT-251
Page pp.pp.23-28(SP), pp.23-28(WIT),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2017-10-12 (SP, WIT)