Constructive Interaction for Talking about Interesting Topics
Kristiina Jokinen, Graham Wilcock · 2012
The paper discusses mechanisms for topic management in conversations, concentrating on interactions where the interlocutors react to each other's presentation of new information and construct a shared context in which to exchange information about interesting topics.This is illustrated with a robot simulator that can talk about unrestricted (open-domain) topics that the human interlocutor shows interest in.Wikipedia is used as the source of information from which the robotic agent draws its world knowledge.