CLDec 6, 2023
Topic and genre in dialogue
arXiv:2312.03342v1h-index: 6
Originality Synthesis-oriented
AI Analysis
This addresses the problem of improving dialogue systems for developers by proposing a conceptual separation, but it appears incremental as it builds on existing notions of genre and topic.
The paper argues that topic is a fundamental component in conversations and must be separated from genre to define interactions, aiming to enable modular, reliable, and controllable flexible-domain dialogue systems.
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.