• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2023.07a
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• pp.67-68
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• 2023

본 논문에서 제안한 Multi Agent Multi Action은 기존의 대화형 시스템 방식인 Single Agent Single Action 구조에 비해 확장성을 갖춘 대화 시스템을 구현하는 방식이다. 시스템을 여러 에이전트로 분할하고, 각 에이전트가 특정 액션에 대한 처리를 담당함으로써 보다 유연하고 효율적인 대화형 시스템을 구현할 수 있으며, 다양한 작업에 특화된 에이전트를 그룹화함으로써 작업의 효율성을 극대화하고, 사용자 경험을 향상 시킬 수 있다.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.11-22
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• 2022

Recently, research and development using various Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies are being conducted in the field of education. Among the AI in Education (AIEd), conversational agents are not limited by time and space, and can learn more effectively by combining them with various AI technologies such as voice recognition and translation. This paper conducted a trend analysis on platforms that have a large number of users and used conversational agents for English learning among commercialized application. Currently commercialized educational platforms using conversational agent through trend analysis has several limitations and problems. To analyze specific problems and limitations, a comparative experiment was conducted with the latest pre-trained large-capacity dialogue model. Sensibleness and Specificity Average (SSA) human evaluation was conducted to evaluate conversational human-likeness. Based on the experiment, this paper propose the need for trained with large-capacity parameters dialogue models, educational data, and information retrieval functions for effective English conversation learning.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2005.07b
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• pp.547-549
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• 2005

최근 정보 제공에 도움을 주는 대화형 에이전트의 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 그러나 대부분의 대화형 에이전트는 사용자의 요구에 미리 준비된 정적인 답변을 제공하므로 친밀감을 주는 다양한 대화를 유지하지 못한다. 이런 한계점을 극복하기 위해 베이지안 네트워크 등의 인공지능 기법을 이용한 사용자 의도 추론을 통해 보다 세밀하고 유연한 대화처리 모델이 연구되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 기존의 정보검색을 위한 대화형 에이전트에서 사용자 의도 추론에 사용된 베이지안 네트워크의 효율을 높이기 위해 노드간의 의미 관계를 표현하는 정보를 결합한 시맨틱 베이지안 네트워크 모델을 제안함으로써 효과적인 사용자 의도 추론을 가능하게 한다. 또한 단발적인 질의 분석이 아닌 점증적 질의 분석 방법으로써, 불충분한 정보로 적절한 답변을 추론하지 못할 경우에 MII(mixed-initiative interaction)를 이용하여 주어진 문제를 해결한다. 실제 모바일 검색 사이트를 대상으로 다양한 유형의 대화를 수행하여 유용성을 확인하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.157-160
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• 2005

유비쿼터스 환경에서 다양한 서비스를 사용자에게 제공하기 위해 지능형 에이전트는 먼저 사용자의 의도를 정확히 파악해야 한다. 명령어 기반의 기존 사용자 인터페이스와는 달리, 대화는 인간과 에이전트 사이의 유연하고 풍부한 의사소통에 유용하지만, 사용자의 배경지식이나 대화의 문맥에 따라 그 표현이 매우 다양하기 때문에 본 논문에서는 '상호주도형' 의사소통을 위한 계층적 베이지안 네트워크를 이용하여 사용자와 에이전트 사이에 발생하는 대화의 모호성을 해결한다. 서비스 추론 시 정보가 부족할 경우에는 계층적 베이지안 네트워크를 이용하여 추가로 필요한 정보를 분석하고 사용자로부터 수집한다. 제안하는 방법을 유비쿼터스 가정환경에 적용하고 시뮬레이션 환경을 구축하여 그 유용성을 확인하였다.

• Science of Emotion and Sensibility
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.59-70
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• 2018

With the breakthrough of speech recognition technology, conversational agents have become pervasive through smartphones and smart speakers. The recognition accuracy of speech recognition technology has developed to the level of human beings, but it still shows limitations on understanding the underlying meaning or intention of words, or understanding long conversation. Accordingly, the users experience various errors when interacting with the conversational agents, which may negatively affect the user experience. In addition, in the case of smart speakers with a voice as the main interface, the lack of feedback on system and transparency was reported as the main issue when the users using. Therefore, there is a strong need for research on how users can better understand the capability of the conversational agents and mitigate negative emotions in error situations. In this study, we applied social strategies, "forewarning" and "apology", to conversational agent and investigated how these strategies affect users' perceptions of the agent in breakdown situations. For the study, we created a series of demo videos of a user interacting with a conversational agent. After watching the demo videos, the participants were asked to evaluate how they liked and trusted the agent through an online survey. A total of 104 respondents were analyzed and found to be contrary to our expectation based on the literature study. The result showed that forewarning gave a negative impression to the user, especially the reliability of the agent. Also, apology in a breakdown situation did not affect the users' perceptions. In the following in-depth interviews, participants explained that they perceived the smart speaker as a machine rather than a human-like object, and for this reason, the social strategies did not work. These results show that the social strategies should be applied according to the perceptions that user has toward agents.

• Journal of the HCI Society of Korea
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.15-22
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• 2019

The purpose of this study is to investigate the users' expectation and expectation gap about the attributes of smart speaker as an intelligent agent, ie autonomy, sociality, responsiveness, activeness, time continuity, goal orientation. To this end, semi-structured interviews were conducted for smart speaker users and analyzed based on ground theory. Result has shown that people have huge expectation gap about the sociality and human-likeness of smart speakers, due to limitations in technology. The responsiveness of smart speakers was found to have positive expectation gap. For the memory of time-sequential information, there was an ambivalent expectation gap depending on the degree of information sensitivity and presentation method. We also found that there was a low expectation level for autonomous aspects of smart speakers. In addition, proactive aspects were preferred only when appropriate for the context. This study presents implications for designing a way to interact with smart speakers and managing expectations.

• Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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• 2003.10d
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• pp.201-207
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• 2003

인터넷의 사용이 보편화됨에 따라 인터넷을 통한 정보 제공 서비스가 확대되고 있다. 이에 따라 빠르게 변화하는 사용자의 요구를 만족시킴과 동시에 편리하고 유용한 서비스를 제공하기 위하여 사용자와 자연스럽게 의사소통할 수 있는 대화형 에이전트의 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 더불어 시스템의 효율적인 설계 또한 중요한 문제가 아닐 수 없다. 본 논문에서는 패턴매칭 기법과 베이지안 네트워크를 이용해 사용자 질의에 대한 적절한 답변을 생성하고, 스크립트 인터페이스를 통한 자동 스크립트 설계로 보다 효율적인 시스템 구축 방안을 제안해 보고자 한다. 실제 의류 사이트를 위한 안내 도우미 에이전트를 구현해 봄으로써 그 기능성을 평가해 본다.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.551-563
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• 2022

This study aims to identify the effect on the user experiences when the embodied agent in a self-driving car interacts with emotional expressions by using 'interjection'. An experimental study was designed with two conditions: the inclusion of injections in the agent's conversation feedbacks (with interjections vs. without interjections) and the type of conversation (task-oriented conversation vs. social-oriented conversation). The online experiment was conducted with the four video clips of conversation scenario treatments and measured intimacy, likability, trust, social presence, perceived anthropomorphism, and future intention to use. The result showed that when the agent used interjection, the main effect on social presence was found in both conversation types. When the agent did not use interjection in the task-oriented conversation, trust and future intention to use were higher than when the agent talked with emotional expressions. In the context of the conversation with the AI agent in a self-driving car, we found only the effect of adding emotional expression by using interjection on the enhancing social presence, but no effect on the other user experience factors.

• Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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• v.29 no.3
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• pp.267-286
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• 2023

The conversational agents such as AI speakers utilize voice conversation for human-computer interaction. Voice recognition errors often occur in conversational situations. Recognition errors in user utterance records can be categorized into two types. The first type is misrecognition errors, where the agent fails to recognize the user's speech entirely. The second type is misinterpretation errors, where the user's speech is recognized and services are provided, but the interpretation differs from the user's intention. Among these, misinterpretation errors require separate error detection as they are recorded as successful service interactions. In this study, various text separation methods were applied to detect misinterpretation. For each of these text separation methods, the similarity of consecutive speech pairs using word embedding and document embedding techniques, which convert words and documents into vectors. This approach goes beyond simple word-based similarity calculation to explore a new method for detecting misinterpretation errors. The research method involved utilizing real user utterance records to train and develop a detection model by applying patterns of misinterpretation error causes. The results revealed that the most significant analysis result was obtained through initial consonant extraction for detecting misinterpretation errors caused by the use of unregistered neologisms. Through comparison with other separation methods, different error types could be observed. This study has two main implications. First, for misinterpretation errors that are difficult to detect due to lack of recognition, the study proposed diverse text separation methods and found a novel method that improved performance remarkably. Second, if this is applied to conversational agents or voice recognition services requiring neologism detection, patterns of errors occurring from the voice recognition stage can be specified. The study proposed and verified that even if not categorized as errors, services can be provided according to user-desired results.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2018.10a
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• pp.628-630
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• 2018

인공지능에 대한 연구가 최근 이슈가 되면서, 딥러닝 기술의 비약적인 발전 덕분에 대화형 에이전트가 인터페이스의 역할을 하고 있다. 이 중에서 최근 여러 대학에서 서비스로 지원하는 챗봇 시스템의 문제점에 대하여 개선된 시스템을 제안하고, 이를 구현하여 실험을 통해 연구하고자 한다. 기존 챗봇 시스템이 가진 문제점을 보완한 시스템은 서비스 사용자가 질의하는 의도에 더 알맞은 응답을 제공하여 서비스 사용자의 불편함을 최소화하고, 사용성과 편의성을 최대화 하는 것을 목적으로 한다.