Dialogue System that Asks Questions to Clarify the User's Intention to Keep the Relationship

Abstract

We describe the prompt used in the system developed for the situation track at the 7th Dialogue System Competition. We observed that a prompt containing only information about the situation specified from the organizer tends to lead to superficial conversation without engaging in specific consultations. To address this issue, we designed a prompt to ask questions to clarify the user's intention to keep the relationship with his/her friend and to elicit concrete personal episodes while expressing empathy. We embedded one example of person-to-person dialogue based on the situations into the prompt. In addition, by annotating the agent's voice style, emotions, and gestures for each utterance in the example dialogue, we tried to achieve multi-modal behaviors that keep consistent with the system's responses.