By constructing dialogue systems, we conduct research to understand how humans can engage in dialogue, what the fundamental principles of dialogue are, and more. Not only do we build dialogue systems, but we also analyze human-to-human conversations from various perspectives to approach the essence of dialogue.
The Higashinaka Laboratory has three project teams, and members belong to one of these teams to conduct their research.
Task-Oriented Dialogue System
Current dialogue systems have performance limitations, making it challenging to implement even simple tasks (such as providing information or sales assistance). This project aims to achieve systems that can reliably accomplish tasks by re-evaluating the construction of dialogue systems from scratch and utilizing android robots and multimodal processing.
Keywords
Task-oriented dialogue, Utterance understanding, Utterance generation, Module integration, Dialogue robot competition, Communicative intelligent systems
Collaborative Dialogue System
We develop new models that enable computers and humans to communicate through dialogue and perform model-based analysis and modeling of human-to-human dialogue and collaborative work. Using various collaborative work tasks as subjects, we create systems that can perform collaborative work through dialogue.
Keywords
Collaborative work, System intentions, Common ground, Opinion reconciliation
Enhancement of Human Dialogue Capabilities
Dialogue services are conducted everywhere. By enhancing human dialogue abilities, the range of services that humans can provide can be dramatically expanded. This project focuses on enhancing human dialogue abilities through virtual avatars.
Keywords
Dialogue breakdown detection, Dialogue understanding, Autonomous dialogue, Dialogue summarization, Cybernetic avatars, Moonshot
