TY - GEN
T1 - Creating Conversations
T2 - 5th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, ICWSM 2011
AU - Gandy, Lisa
AU - Hammond, Kristian
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2011, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (www.aaai.org). All rights reserved.
PY - 2011/7/17
Y1 - 2011/7/17
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85167426929&partnerID=8YFLogxK
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85167426929
T3 - Proceedings of the 5th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, ICWSM 2011
SP - 482
EP - 485
BT - Proceedings of the 5th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, ICWSM 2011
PB - AAAI press
Y2 - 17 July 2011 through 21 July 2011
ER -