Evaluating a city exploration dialogue system combining question-answering and pedestrian navigation

Srinivasan Janarthanam, Oliver Lemon, Phil Bartie, Tiphaine Dalmas, Anna Dickinson, Xingkun Liu, William Mackaness, Bonnie Webber

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We present a city navigation and tourist information mobile dialogue app with integrated question-answering (QA) and geographic information system (GIS) modules that helps pedestrian users to navigate in and learn about urban environments. In contrast to existing mobile apps which treat these problems independently, our Android app addresses the problem of navigation and touristic questionanswering in an integrated fashion using a shared dialogue context. We evaluated our system in comparison with Samsung S-Voice (which interfaces to Google navigation and Google search) with 17 users and found that users judged our system to be significantly more interesting to interact with and learn from. They also rated our system above Google search (with the Samsung S-Voice interface) for tourist information tasks.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationACL 2013 - 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages1660-1668
Number of pages9
Volume1
ISBN (Print)9781937284503
Publication statusPublished - 2013
Event51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2013 - Sofia, Bulgaria
Duration: 4 Aug 20139 Aug 2013

Conference

Conference51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2013
Country/TerritoryBulgaria
CitySofia
Period4/08/139/08/13

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