Characteristics of Common Experimental Dialogue Tasks: a Systematic Review & Taxonomy

EasyChair Preprint 10617

Abstract

Natural dialogue has a flexible and open-ended  character that makes controlled experiments difficult. One strategy for dealing with this is to use a dialogue task that reduces this complexity by limiting the content, format or structure of a dialogue. This paper introduces a systematic review of these tasks, organises their basic features into a taxonomy and introduces quantitative comparisons between these task dialogues to guide task choice and identify gaps in coverage.

Keyphrases: Dialogue tasks, Quasi-dialogue, conversation, domain-independent, natural dialogue

@booklet{EasyChair:10617,
  author    = {Ella Cullen and Patrick Healey and Paraskevi Argyriou and Suyog Pipliwal},
  title     = {Characteristics of Common Experimental Dialogue Tasks: a Systematic Review & Taxonomy},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint 10617},
  year      = {EasyChair, 2023}}