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We propose a speech-based interactive guidance system based on document retrieval and presentation. In conventional audio guidance systems, such as those deployed in museums, the information flow is one-way and the content is fixed. To make the guidance interactive, we prepare two modes, a user-initiative retrieval/QA mode (pull-mode) and a system-initiative recommendation mode (push-mode), and switch between them according to the user’s state. In the user-initiative retrieval/QA mode, the user can ask questions about specific facts in the documents in addition to general queries. In the system-initiative recommendation mode, the system actively provides the information the user would be interested in. We implemented a navigation system containing Kyoto city information. The effectiveness of the proposed techniques was confirmed through a field trial by a number of real novice users.
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Misu, T., Kawahara, T. (2007). An Interactive Framework for Document Retrieval and Presentation with Question-Answering Function in Restricted Domain. In: Okuno, H.G., Ali, M. (eds) New Trends in Applied Artificial Intelligence. IEA/AIE 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4570. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73325-6_13
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