Tracey, PJ, Saraee, MH 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3283-1912 and Hughes, CJ ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4468-6660
2021,
Applying NLP to build a cold reading chatbot
, in: ISEEIE 2021: 2021 International Symposium on Electrical, Electronics and Information Engineering, 19th-21st February 2021, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
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Abstract
Chatbots are computer programs designed to simulate conversation by interacting with a human user. In this paper we present a chatbot framework designed specifically to aid prolonged grief disorder (PGD) sufferers by replicating the techniques performed during cold readings. Our initial framework performed an association rule analysis on transcripts of real-world cold reading performances, in order to generate the required data as used in traditional rules based chatbots. However due to the structure of cold readings the traditional approach was unable to determine a satisfactory set of rules. Therefore, in this paper we discuss the limitations of this approach and subsequently provide a generative solution using sequence-to-sequence modeling with long short-term memory. We demonstrate how our generative chatbot is therefore able to provide appropriate responses to the majority of inputs. However, as inappropriate responses can present a risk to sensitive PGD sufferers we suggest a final iteration of our chatbot which successfully adjusts to account for multi-turn conversations.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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| Schools: | Schools > School of Computing, Science and Engineering |
| Journal or Publication Title: | ISEEIE 2021: 2021 International Symposium on Electrical, Electronics and Information Engineering |
| Publisher: | Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) |
| ISBN: | 9781450389839 |
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| Depositing User: | Dr Chris Hughes |
| Date Deposited: | 10 Nov 2020 13:18 |
| Last Modified: | 16 Feb 2022 05:48 |
| URI: | https://usir.salford.ac.uk/id/eprint/58507 |
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