A study on the acquisition of users' values through interactive approach

• Project/Area Number: 16H05880
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (A)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Research Field: Library and information science/Humanistic social informatics
• Research Institution: The University of Electro-Communications (2019); Hiroshima City University (2016-2018)
• Principal Investigator: Inaba Michimasa 電気通信大学, 人工知能先端研究センター, 准教授 (10636202)
• Project Period (FY): 2016-04-01 – 2020-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2019)
• Budget Amount: ¥20,930,000 (Direct Cost: ¥16,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥4,830,000); Fiscal Year 2019: ¥2,600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥600,000); Fiscal Year 2018: ¥2,470,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥570,000); Fiscal Year 2017: ¥2,470,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥570,000); Fiscal Year 2016: ¥13,390,000 (Direct Cost: ¥10,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥3,090,000)
• Keywords: 知的対話システム / 対話処理 / 対話システム / ユーザモデリング / コーパス / 興味推定 / 対話破綻検出 / 自然言語処理

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this study, we proposed (1) a dialogue model based on a recurrent neural network, and (2) a model to estimate the user's interest in topics (e.g., music, fashion, health, etc.) based on the utterances in chat dialogues.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

深層学習を用いた応答選択に基づく対話モデルは近年は非常に活発に研究が行われているが，提案モデルはその先駆けとなる研究の一つであり，学術的に一定のインパクトが有ったと考える．また，興味推定モデルに関しても，システムのパーソナライズに必要な技術であり，ユーザビリティの向上に有用な技術である．

Research Products

• [Journal Article] Selection of Evaluation Metrics for Dialogue Breakdown Detection in Dialogue Breakdown Detection Challenge 3 (2020)
  • Author(s): Tsunomori Yuiko、Higashinaka Ryuichiro、Takahashi Tetsuro、Inaba Michimasa
  • Journal Title: Transactions of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence Volume: 35 Issue: 1 Pages: DSI-G_1-10
  • DOI: 10.1527/tjsai.DSI-G
  • NAID: 130007779296
  • ISSN: 1346-0714, 1346-8030
  • Year and Date: 2020-01-01
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
• [Journal Article] Applying Dialogue Breakdown Detection to Dialogue Systems (2019)
  • Author(s): 稲葉 通将, 高橋 健一
  • Journal Title: Transactions of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence Volume: 34 Issue: 3 Pages: B-I64_1-8
  • DOI: 10.1527/tjsai.B-I64
  • NAID: 130007641573
  • ISSN: 1346-0714, 1346-8030
  • Year and Date: 2019-05-01
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
• [Journal Article] Estimating User Interest from Chat Dialogue using Neural Networks (2019)
  • Author(s): 稲葉 通将, 高橋 健一
  • Journal Title: Transactions of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence Volume: 34 Issue: 2 Pages: E-I94_1-9
  • DOI: 10.1527/tjsai.E-I94
  • NAID: 130007607242
  • ISSN: 1346-0714, 1346-8030
  • Year and Date: 2019-03-01
• [Journal Article] Overview of the Sixth Dialog System Technology Challenge: DSTC6 (2019)
  • Author(s): Chiori Hori, Julien Perez, Ryuichiro Higasinaka, Hori Takaaki, Y-Lan Boureau, Michimasa Inaba, Yuiko Tsunomori, Tetsuro Takahashi, Koichiro Yoshino, Seokhwan Kim
  • Journal Title: Computer Speech & Language Volume: 55 Pages: 1-25
• [Journal Article] Ranking Candidate Utterances Using Recurrent Neural Networks for Non-task-oriented Dialogue Systems (2017)
  • Author(s): 稲葉通将，高橋健一
  • Journal Title: 電子情報通信学会論文誌D 情報・システム Volume: J100-D Issue: 6 Pages: 661-671
  • DOI: 10.14923/transinfj.2016JDP7117
  • ISSN: 1880-4535, 1881-0225
  • Year and Date: 2017-06-01
  • Peer Reviewed / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] 非タスク指向型対話システムのためのリカレントニューラルネットワークを用いた発話候補ランキング (2017)
  • Author(s): 稲葉 通将,高橋 健一
  • Journal Title: 電子情報通信学会論文誌 D Volume: J100-D, No. 6 Pages: 661-671
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Presentation] 対話システムライブコンペティション2. (2019)
  • Author(s): 東中 竜一郎, 船越 孝太郎, 稲葉 通将, 角森 唯子, 高橋 哲朗, 赤間 怜奈, 宇佐美 まゆみ, 水上 雅博
  • Organizer: 第10回対話システムシンポジウム
• [Presentation] 雑談対話システムをどう評価すべきか -TripiaBotのライブコンペ予選通過から考える- (2019)
  • Author(s): 稲葉 通将
  • Organizer: 第10回対話システムシンポジウム
• [Presentation] おーぷん2ちゃんねる対話コーパスを用いた用例ベース対話システム. (2019)
  • Author(s): 稲葉 通将
  • Organizer: 第10回対話システムシンポジウム
• [Presentation] Overview of the dialogue breakdown detection challenge 4 (2019)
  • Author(s): Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Luis F. D’Haro, Bayan Abu Shawar, Rafael Banchs, Kotaro Funakoshi, Michimasa Inaba, Yuiko Tsunomori, Tetsuro Takahashi, Joao Sedoc
  • Organizer: International Workshop on Spoken Dialog System Technology 2019 (IWSDS 2019)
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Dialogue system live competition: identifying problems with dialogue systems through live event (2019)
  • Author(s): 0 Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Kotaro Funakoshi, Michimasa Inaba, Yuiko Tsunomori, Tetsuro Takahashi, Reina Akama
  • Organizer: International Workshop on Spoken Dialog System Technology 2019 (IWSDS 2019)
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Estimating User Interest from Open-Domain Dialogue (2018)
  • Author(s): Michimasa Inaba, Kenichi Takahashi
  • Organizer: The 18th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL 2018)
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Improving the Performance of Chat-oriented Dialogue Systems via Dialogue Breakdown Detection (2018)
  • Author(s): Michimasa Inaba, Kenichi Takahashi
  • Organizer: International Workshop on Spoken Dialog System Technology 2018 (IWSDS 2018)
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] 雑談対話からのユーザの興味推定 (2018)
  • Author(s): 稲葉通将，高橋健一
  • Organizer: 第9回対話システムシンポジウム
• [Presentation] 対話システムライブコンペティション (2018)
  • Author(s): 東中竜一郎，船越孝太郎，稲葉通将，角森唯子，高橋哲朗，赤間怜奈
  • Organizer: 第9回対話システムシンポジウム
• [Presentation] Answering What-type and Who-type Questions for Non-task-oriented Dialogue Agents (2018)
  • Author(s): Makoto Koshinda, Michimasa Inaba, Kenichi Takahashi
  • Organizer: The 10th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] 対話破綻検出による対話システムの応答性能の向上 (2017)
  • Author(s): 稲葉通将，高橋健一
  • Organizer: 言語・音声理解と対話処理研究会
• [Presentation] Neural Utterance Ranking Model for Conversational Dialogue Systems (2016)
  • Author(s): Michimasa Inaba, Kenichi Takahashi
  • Organizer: The 17th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue
  • Place of Presentation: ロサンゼルス
  • Year and Date: 2016-09-13
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Backchanneling via Twitter Data for Conversational Dialogue Systems (2016)
  • Author(s): Michimasa Inaba, Kenichi Takahashi
  • Organizer: The 18th International Conference on Speech and Computer
  • Place of Presentation: ブダペスト
  • Year and Date: 2016-08-23
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] LSTMエンコーダを用いた統計的発話選択 (2016)
  • Author(s): 稲葉通将，高橋健一
  • Organizer: 第30回人工知能学会全国大会
  • Place of Presentation: 北九州市
  • Year and Date: 2016-06-06
• [Presentation] 非タスク指向型対話システムの現状と展望 (2016)
  • Author(s): 稲葉通将
  • Organizer: クラウドネットワークロボット研究会
  • Place of Presentation: 東京都渋谷区
  • Invited
• [Patent(Industrial Property Rights)] 興味推定方法、及び興味推定プログラム. (2018)
  • Inventor(s): 稲葉通将
  • Industrial Property Rights Holder: 稲葉通将
  • Industrial Property Rights Type: 特許
  • Industrial Property Number: 2018-174398
  • Filing Date: 2018