FREETALKY: Don't Be Afraid! Conversations Made Easier by a Humanoid Robot using Persona-based Dialogue

Chanjun Park; Yoonna Jang; Seolhwa Lee; Sungjin Park; Heuiseok Lim

FREETALKY: Don't Be Afraid! Conversations Made Easier by a Humanoid Robot using Persona-based Dialogue

Chanjun Park
, Yoonna Jang
, Seolhwa Lee
, Sungjin Park
, Heuiseok Lim^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

7 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

We propose a deep learning-based foreign language learning platform, named FREETALKY, for people who experience anxiety dealing with foreign languages, by employing a humanoid robot NAO and various deep learning models. A persona-based dialogue system that is embedded in NAO provides an interesting and consistent multi-turn dialogue for users. Also, an grammar error correction system promotes improvement in grammar skills of the users. Thus, our system enables personalized learning based on persona dialogue and facilitates grammar learning of a user using grammar error feedback. Furthermore, we verified whether FREETALKY provides practical help in alleviating xenoglossophobia by replacing the real human in the conversation with a NAO robot, through human evaluation.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2022 Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, LREC 2022
Editors	Nicoletta Calzolari, Frederic Bechet, Philippe Blache, Khalid Choukri, Christopher Cieri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Hitoshi Isahara, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Helene Mazo, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
Publisher	European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
Pages	1242-1248
Number of pages	7
ISBN (Electronic)	9791095546726
Publication status	Published - 2022
Event	13th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, LREC 2022 - Marseille, France Duration: 2022 Jun 20 → 2022 Jun 25

Publication series

Name	2022 Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, LREC 2022

Conference

Conference	13th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, LREC 2022
Country/Territory	France
City	Marseille
Period	22/6/20 → 22/6/25

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This research was supported by Institute of Information & communications Technology Planning & Evaluation(IITP) grant funded by the Korea government(MSIT) (No. 2020-0-00368, A Neural-Symbolic Model for Knowledge Acquisition and Inference Techniques) and supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea(NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education(NRF-2021R1A6A1A03045425).

Publisher Copyright:
© European Language Resources Association (ELRA), licensed under CC-BY-NC-4.0.

Keywords

FreeTalky
Grammar Error Feedback
Humanoid Robot NAO
Persona Dialogue

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Language and Linguistics
Library and Information Sciences
Linguistics and Language
Education

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Park, C., Jang, Y., Lee, S., Park, S., & Lim, H. (2022). FREETALKY: Don't Be Afraid! Conversations Made Easier by a Humanoid Robot using Persona-based Dialogue. In N. Calzolari, F. Bechet, P. Blache, K. Choukri, C. Cieri, T. Declerck, S. Goggi, H. Isahara, B. Maegaard, J. Mariani, H. Mazo, J. Odijk, & S. Piperidis (Eds.), 2022 Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, LREC 2022 (pp. 1242-1248). (2022 Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, LREC 2022). European Language Resources Association (ELRA).

FREETALKY: Don't Be Afraid! Conversations Made Easier by a Humanoid Robot using Persona-based Dialogue. / Park, Chanjun; Jang, Yoonna; Lee, Seolhwa et al.
2022 Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, LREC 2022. ed. / Nicoletta Calzolari; Frederic Bechet; Philippe Blache; Khalid Choukri; Christopher Cieri; Thierry Declerck; Sara Goggi; Hitoshi Isahara; Bente Maegaard; Joseph Mariani; Helene Mazo; Jan Odijk; Stelios Piperidis. European Language Resources Association (ELRA), 2022. p. 1242-1248 (2022 Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, LREC 2022).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Park, C, Jang, Y, Lee, S, Park, S & Lim, H 2022, FREETALKY: Don't Be Afraid! Conversations Made Easier by a Humanoid Robot using Persona-based Dialogue. in N Calzolari, F Bechet, P Blache, K Choukri, C Cieri, T Declerck, S Goggi, H Isahara, B Maegaard, J Mariani, H Mazo, J Odijk & S Piperidis (eds), 2022 Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, LREC 2022. 2022 Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, LREC 2022, European Language Resources Association (ELRA), pp. 1242-1248, 13th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, LREC 2022, Marseille, France, 22/6/20.

Park C, Jang Y, Lee S, Park S, Lim H. FREETALKY: Don't Be Afraid! Conversations Made Easier by a Humanoid Robot using Persona-based Dialogue. In Calzolari N, Bechet F, Blache P, Choukri K, Cieri C, Declerck T, Goggi S, Isahara H, Maegaard B, Mariani J, Mazo H, Odijk J, Piperidis S, editors, 2022 Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, LREC 2022. European Language Resources Association (ELRA). 2022. p. 1242-1248. (2022 Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, LREC 2022).

Park, Chanjun ; Jang, Yoonna ; Lee, Seolhwa et al. / FREETALKY : Don't Be Afraid! Conversations Made Easier by a Humanoid Robot using Persona-based Dialogue. 2022 Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, LREC 2022. editor / Nicoletta Calzolari ; Frederic Bechet ; Philippe Blache ; Khalid Choukri ; Christopher Cieri ; Thierry Declerck ; Sara Goggi ; Hitoshi Isahara ; Bente Maegaard ; Joseph Mariani ; Helene Mazo ; Jan Odijk ; Stelios Piperidis. European Language Resources Association (ELRA), 2022. pp. 1242-1248 (2022 Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, LREC 2022).

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