Discourse over Discourse: The Need for an Expanded Pragmatic Focus in Conversational AI

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2304.14543v1
• Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2023 21:51:42 GMT
• Title: Discourse over Discourse: The Need for an Expanded Pragmatic Focus in Conversational AI
• Authors: S.M. Seals and Valerie L. Shalin
• Abstract summary: We discuss several challenges in both summarization of conversations and other conversational AI applications. We illustrate the importance of pragmatics with so-called star sentences. Because the baseline for quality of AI is indistinguishability from human behavior, we label our complaints as "Turing Test Triggers"
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• Abstract: The summarization of conversation, that is, discourse over discourse, elevates pragmatic considerations as a pervasive limitation of both summarization and other applications of contemporary conversational AI. Building on impressive progress in both semantics and syntax, pragmatics concerns meaning in the practical sense. In this paper, we discuss several challenges in both summarization of conversations and other conversational AI applications, drawing on relevant theoretical work. We illustrate the importance of pragmatics with so-called star sentences, syntactically acceptable propositions that are pragmatically inappropriate in conversation or its summary. Because the baseline for quality of AI is indistinguishability from human behavior, we draw heavily on the psycho-linguistics literature, and label our complaints as "Turing Test Triggers" (TTTs). We discuss implications for the design and evaluation of conversation summarization methods and conversational AI applications like voice assistants and chatbots

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