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Grounding Conversations with Improvised Dialogues
2020
Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
unpublished
Effective dialogue involves grounding, the process of establishing mutual knowledge that is essential for communication between people. Modern dialogue systems are not explicitly trained to build common ground, and therefore overlook this important aspect of communication. Improvisational theater (improv) intrinsically contains a high proportion of dialogue focused on building common ground, and makes use of the yes-and principle, a strong grounding speech act, to establish coherence and an
doi:10.18653/v1/2020.acl-main.218
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