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47719 Creator 2515c15e5a8e5ef71a6e3a3c05d159fc
47719 Date 2017-01-01
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47719 abstract With the advent of digital personal assistants for mobile devices, systems that are marketed as engaging in (spoken) dialogue have reached a wider public than ever before. For a student of dialogue, this raises the question to what extent such systems are genuine dialogue partners. In order to address this question, this study proposes to use the concept of a dialogue game as an analytical tool. Thus, we reframe the question as asking for the dialogue games that such systems play. Our analysis, as applied to a number of landmark systems and illustrated with dialogue extracts, leads to a fine-grained classification of such systems. Drawing on this analysis, we propose that the uptake of future generations of more powerful dialogue systems will depend on whether they are self-validating. A self-validating dialogue system can not only talk and do things, but also discuss the why of what it says and does, and learn from such discussions.
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47719 issue 28
47719 status peerReviewed
47719 uri http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/526082
47719 uri http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/526084
47719 uri http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/526085
47719 uri http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/526087
47719 uri http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/526088
47719 uri http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/526089
47719 uri http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/529677
47719 type Article
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47719 label Piwek, Paul (2017). Dialogue with computers: dialogue games in action. In: Mildorf, Jarmila and Thomas, Bronwen eds. Dialogue across Media. Dialogue studies (28). Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 179–202.
47719 label Piwek, Paul (2017). Dialogue with computers: dialogue games in action. In: Mildorf, Jarmila and Thomas, Bronwen eds. Dialogue across Media. Dialogue studies (28). Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 179–202.
47719 Publisher ext-03190d13b2d9c994ca52e5d3594e5aae
47719 Title Dialogue with computers: dialogue games in action
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