Augmenting conversational characters with generated question-answer pairs

TitleAugmenting conversational characters with generated question-answer pairs
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication2011
AuthorsNouri, E., R. Artstein, A. Leuski, and D. R. Traum
Conference NameAAAI Symposium on Question Generation
Date PublishedNovember 2011
Abstract

We take a conversational character trained on a set of linked
question-answer pairs authored by hand, and augment its
training data by adding sets of question-answer pairs which
are generated automatically from texts on different topics.
The augmented characters can answer questions about the
new topics, at the cost of some performance loss on ques-
tions about the topics that the original character was trained
to answer.

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