Topic and genre in dialogue
Amandine Decker Ellen Breitholtz Christine Howes Staffan Larsson
In this paper we argue that topic plays a fundamental role in conversations,
and that the concept is needed in addition to that of genre to define
interactions. In particular, the concepts of genre and topic need to be
separated and orthogonally defined. This would enable modular, reliable and
controllable flexible-domain dialogue systems.