Abstract
Online news sites often include a comments section where
readers are allowed to leave their thoughts. These comments often contain interesting and insightful conversations between readers about the news article. However the richness of these conversations is often lost among other meaningless comments,and moreover all comments are found at the bottom of the web page. In this article, we discuss how our system inserts reader
conversations into the news article to create a multimedia
presentation called Shout Out. Shout Out features two virtual news anchors: one anchor reads the news and when appropriate the anchor pauses to have a conversation about the news with another anchor. This current iteration of Shout Out combines natural language techniques and reader conversations to create an
engaging system.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Creating Conversations: an Automated Dialog System |
| Publisher | Association for the Advancment of Artificial Intelligence Conference on Weblogs and Social Media |
| State | Published - Jan 2011 |