A Conversational Agent Replying with a Joke

Abstract

Conversational agents are beginning to become popular in various scenes of daily life, and it is considered that many users will use it in the future. However, since the conversation with the agent is impersonal, many users seems not to feel familiar with such agents. To address this issue, we focused on the relationship between humor and familiarity. Based on this idea, we propose an agent that creates humor by hearing wrongly the word that has a dissimilar meaning and similar sound instead of the word that the user has said. This makes it possible for the agent to bring humor into the conversation, thus the user can feel familiarity with the agent.