Presentation 2018-03-19
Incongruity Evaluation of Utterance by Using RNNLM for Non-task-Oriented Dialogue System
Shohei Fujikura, Hideaki Kikuchi,
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Abstract(in English) In this study, we aim to construct non-task-oriented dialogue system that can evaluate incongruity of a utterance to handle humor utterance in conversation. Humor studies have proposed that incongruity is a one of the component of humor and is elucidated by distance between an expectation and an actual stimulus. We use RNNLM which models probability distribution of words over a given context so that assume an expectation of a user as probability distribution. Experiment was conducted and it was cleared that there is a moderately correlation between a value of user’s rating and a value scored by RNNLM using negative-sampling. Additionally, the method of RNNLM works more stable than the method of word2vec used by previous study. Furthermore, we did regression analysis to confirm individuality of rating incongruity and it was cleared that a variance of the incongruity hier as well as the mean of the incongruity increases.
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Keyword(in English) non-task-oriented dialogue system / humor / RNNLM
Paper # TL2017-72
Date of Issue 2018-03-12 (TL)

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Committee TL
Conference Date 2018/3/19(1days)
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Place (in English) Waseda University
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Topics (in English) Theme 1 : Language and Learning, Learning Language, Theme 2: Abduction of meaning, "Ba" in Co-Creation, Abduction and Innovation, Theme 3: Interpretation, Translation, Theory of linguistic relativity and hospitality communication
Chair Masami Suzuki(KDDI Research)
Vice Chair Tadahisa Kondo(Kogakuin Univ.) / Chiaki Kubomura(Yamano College of Aesthetics)
Secretary Tadahisa Kondo(Kobe Gakuin Univ.) / Chiaki Kubomura(Kyoto Institute of Technology)
Assistant Nobuyuki Jincho(Waseda Univ.) / Noriaki Takada(Ferris Univ.)

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Registration To Technical Committee on Thought and Language
Language JPN
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Title (in English) Incongruity Evaluation of Utterance by Using RNNLM for Non-task-Oriented Dialogue System
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) non-task-oriented dialogue system
Keyword(2) humor
Keyword(3) RNNLM
1st Author's Name Shohei Fujikura
1st Author's Affiliation Waseda University(Waseda Univ.)
2nd Author's Name Hideaki Kikuchi
2nd Author's Affiliation Waseda University(Waseda Univ.)
Date 2018-03-19
Paper # TL2017-72
Volume (vol) vol.117
Number (no) TL-519
Page pp.pp.75-79(TL),
#Pages 5
Date of Issue 2018-03-12 (TL)