Question-answering systems are recognized as popular and frequently effective means of
information seeking on the web. In such systems, information seekers can receive a concise …

In conversation, a speaker sometimes asks questions that relate to another speaker's
detailed personality, such as his/her favorite foods and sports. This behavior also appears in …

Despite of the significant improvements of Natural Language Processing with Neural
networks such as machine reading comprehensions, chat-oriented dialogue systems …

Although conversational dialogue systems are required for continuing long conversations
with users to build relationships, they sometimes make sentences that are not related to the …

We propose a method to extract user information in a structured form for personalized
dialogue systems. Assuming that user information can be represented as a quadruple< …

We have been studying methods to personalize system utterances for users in casual
conversations. We know that personalization is important, but no wellestablished way to …

Chat-oriented dialogue systems sometimes generate inappropriate response utterances to
user utterances that cause dialogue breakdown. Detecting such inappropriate utterances …

We develop a question-answering system for questions that ask about a conversational
agent's personality based on large-scale question-answer pairs created by hand. In casual …

The development of open-domain conversational systems remains difficult since user
utterances are widely varied for such systems to respond appropriately. To address this is …

Research on conversational dialogue systems has attracted attention for achieving dialogue
systems that can build social relationships with users. Although such systems are required …