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On a Chatbot Providing Virtual Dialogues

P. 382–387.
Galitsky B., Ilvovsky D., Goncharova E.

We present a chatbot that delivers content in the form of virtual dialogues automatically produced from the plain texts that are extracted and selected from the documents. This virtual dialogue content is provided in the form of answers derived from the found and selected documents split into fragments, and questions that are automatically generated for these answers based on the initial text.

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Keywords: rhetorical structure theorydiscourse tree
Publication based on the results of:
Discovering and Representing Knowledge for Recommender Systems (2019)

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Proceedings of the International Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, RANLP 2019
INCOMA Ltd, 2019.
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