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Towards Joking, Humor Sense Equipped and Emotion Aware Conversational Systems

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Advances in Affective and Pleasurable Design

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In this paper, we present our progress so far in realization of project aimed to create a complex, modular humor-equipped conversational system. By complex, we mean that it should be able to: (1) detect users’ emotions, (2) detect users’ humorous behaviors and react to them properly, (3) generate humor according to users’ emotive states and (4) learn each user’s individual sense of humor. The research is conducted in Japanese. We chose puns as a relatively computable genre of humor. We describe a general outline of our system, as well as its four modules: humor detection module, emotion recognition module, response generator module and individualisation module. We present the algorithm of systems used in each module, along with some evaluation results.

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  1. Institute of Middle and Far Eastern Studies Faculty of International and Political Studies, Jagiellonian University, ul. Gronostajowa 3, 31-008, Kraków, Poland

    Pawel Dybala

  2. Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Hokkaido University, Kita-ku Kita 14 Nishi 9, 060-0814, Sapporo, Japan

    Motoki Yatsu, Rafal Rzepka & Kenji Araki

  3. Department of Computer Science, Kitami Institute of Technology, 165 Koen-cho, Kitami, 090-8507, Japan

    Michal Ptaszynski

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Dybala, P., Yatsu, M., Ptaszynski, M., Rzepka, R., Araki, K. (2017). Towards Joking, Humor Sense Equipped and Emotion Aware Conversational Systems. In: Chung, W., Shin, C. (eds) Advances in Affective and Pleasurable Design . Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 483. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41661-8_64

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