Utilizing Review Summarization in a Spoken Recommendation System

In this paper we present a framework for spoken recommendation systems. To provide reliable recommendations to users, we incorporate a review summarization technique which extracts informative opinion summaries from grass-roots users‘ reviews. The dialogue system then utilizes these review summ...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Liu, Jingjing, Seneff, Stephanie, Zue, Victor
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Association for Computational Linguistics 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/62198
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2602-0862
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8191-1049
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Summary:In this paper we present a framework for spoken recommendation systems. To provide reliable recommendations to users, we incorporate a review summarization technique which extracts informative opinion summaries from grass-roots users‘ reviews. The dialogue system then utilizes these review summaries to support both quality-based opinion inquiry and feature- specific entity search. We propose a probabilistic language generation approach to automatically creating recommendations in spoken natural language from the text-based opinion summaries. A user study in the restaurant domain shows that the proposed approaches can effectively generate reliable and helpful recommendations in human-computer conversations.