The Day a System Becomes a Conversation Partner—Exploring New Horizons in Social Dialogue Systems with Large-scale Deep Learning (original) (raw)

Abstract

People live their lives by casually talking with others on a daily basis. Such "social" dialogue contributes to building trust among people and satisfying their desire to talk with others. There has been a growing interest in social dialogue systems to satisfy the human desire for chatting with others, and we have been working on a wide range of research projects to develop such systems. With the rapid progress in deep learning, high-performance social dialogue systems using deep learning have been proposed. In this article, we introduce NTT's social dialogue system using the latest deep-learning models as well as the current achievements obtained and challenges with this system.

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