Topic and genre in dialogue
Amandine Decker, Ellen Breitholtz, Christine Howes, Larsson, Staffan · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2023
In this paper we argue that topic plays a fundamental role in conversations, and that the concept is needed in addition to that of genre to define interactions. In particular, the concepts of genre and topic need to be separated and orthogonally defined. This would enable modular, reliable and controllable flexible-domain dialogue systems.