%0 Conference Paper %1 conf/mdai/LimC05 %A Lim, Sung-Soo %A Cho, Sung-Bae %B Modeling Decisions for Artificial Intelligence, Second International Conference, MDAI 2005, Proceedings %C Tsukuba, Japan %D 2005 %E Torra, Vicenc %E Narukawa, Yasuo %E Miyamoto, Sadaaki %I Springer %K Dialogue Interactive Natural Sentence algorithms, generation, genetic language plan programming, system, tree %P 305--315 %R doi:10.1007/11526018_30 %T Language Generation for Conversational Agent by Evolution of Plan Trees with Genetic Programming %V 3558 %X As dialogue systems are widely demanded, the research on natural language generation in dialogue has raised interest. Contrary to conventional dialogue systems that reply to the user with a set of predefined answers, a newly developed dialogue system generates them dynamically and trains answers to support more flexible and customised dialogues with humans. The paper proposes an evolutionary method for generating sentences using interactive genetic programming. Sentence plan trees, which stand for the sentence structure, are adopted as the representation of genetic programming. With interactive evolution process with the user, a set of customized sentence structures is obtained. The proposed method applies to a dialogue-based travel planning system and the usability test demonstrates the usefulness of the proposed method %@ 3-540-27871-0

@inproceedings{conf/mdai/LimC05, abstract = {As dialogue systems are widely demanded, the research on natural language generation in dialogue has raised interest. Contrary to conventional dialogue systems that reply to the user with a set of predefined answers, a newly developed dialogue system generates them dynamically and trains answers to support more flexible and customised dialogues with humans. The paper proposes an evolutionary method for generating sentences using interactive genetic programming. Sentence plan trees, which stand for the sentence structure, are adopted as the representation of genetic programming. With interactive evolution process with the user, a set of customized sentence structures is obtained. The proposed method applies to a dialogue-based travel planning system and the usability test demonstrates the usefulness of the proposed method}, added-at = {2008-06-19T17:35:00.000+0200}, address = {Tsukuba, Japan}, author = {Lim, Sung-Soo and Cho, Sung-Bae}, bibdate = {2005-07-18}, bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/mdai/mdai2005.html#HongC05}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/25118ed7b668f1fd86b81d29330d020aa/brazovayeye}, booktitle = {Modeling Decisions for Artificial Intelligence, Second International Conference, MDAI 2005, Proceedings}, doi = {doi:10.1007/11526018_30}, editor = {Torra, Vicenc and Narukawa, Yasuo and Miyamoto, Sadaaki}, interhash = {edc840ee189cc743f426cf86d2198e07}, intrahash = {5118ed7b668f1fd86b81d29330d020aa}, isbn = {3-540-27871-0}, keywords = {Dialogue Interactive Natural Sentence algorithms, generation, genetic language plan programming, system, tree}, month = {July 25-27}, pages = {305--315}, publisher = {Springer}, series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science}, size = {11 pages}, timestamp = {2008-06-19T17:45:37.000+0200}, title = {Language Generation for Conversational Agent by Evolution of Plan Trees with Genetic Programming}, volume = 3558, year = 2005 }