Conversational Task

A Conversational Task is a discourse task that is a multi-agent task.

• AKA: Dialoguing.
• Context:
  • Task Performance Measures: Word Error Rate, Conversational Latency.
  • It can range from being an Embodied Conversational Task (e.g. verbal conversational tasks) to being a Disembodied Conversational Task (e.g. typewritten conversational tasks).
  • It can range from being a Human-Performed Conversational Task to being an Automated Conversational Task (that can solved by a conversational system).
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• Example(s):
  • Informal Conversation.
  • a Medical Dialogue Task.
  • a QA Conversation Task (which can range from being an Open-Domain QA Conversational Task to being a Restricted-Domain QA Conversational Task).
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Linguistic Translation Task.
• See: Chatbot Task, Natural Language Generation, User-Perceived Latency, WER.

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