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What's The Latest? A Question-driven News Chatbot

URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2105.05392v1
Date: Wed, 12 May 2021 01:41:20 GMT
Title: What's The Latest? A Question-driven News Chatbot
Authors: Philippe Laban, John Canny, Marti A. Hearst
Abstract summary: The system draws content from a diverse set of news articles and creates conversations with a user about the news. Key components of the system include the automatic organization of news articles into topical chatrooms, integration of automatically generated questions into the conversation, and a novel method for choosing which questions to present.
Score: 22.788590387879307
License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Abstract: This work describes an automatic news chatbot that draws content from a diverse set of news articles and creates conversations with a user about the news. Key components of the system include the automatic organization of news articles into topical chatrooms, integration of automatically generated questions into the conversation, and a novel method for choosing which questions to present which avoids repetitive suggestions. We describe the algorithmic framework and present the results of a usability study that shows that news readers using the system successfully engage in multi-turn conversations about specific news stories.

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