User-initiated Sub-dialogues in State-of-the-art Dialogue Systems
Staffan Larsson · 2017
We test state of the art dialogue systems for their behaviour in response to userinitiated sub-dialogues, i.e. interactions where a system question is responded to with a question or request from the user, who thus initiates a sub-dialogue.We look at sub-dialogues both within a single app (where the sub-dialogue concerns another topic in the original domain) and across apps (where the sub-dialogue concerns a different domain).The overall conclusion of the tests is that none of the systems can be said to deal appropriately with userinitiated sub-dialogues.