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Abstract: We present an approach to evaluate argument search techniques in view of their use in argumentative dialogue systems by assessing quality aspects of the retrieved arguments. To this end, we introduce a dialogue system that presents arguments by means of a virtual avatar and synthetic speech to users and allows them to rate the presented content in four different categories (Interesting, Convincing, Comprehensible, Relation). The approach is applied in a user study in order to compare two state of the art argument search engines to each other and with a system based on traditional web search. The results show a significant advantage of the two search engines over the baseline. Moreover, the two search engines show significant advantages over each other in different categories, thereby reflecting strengths and weaknesses of the different underlying techniques.

Conference (LREC '20): https://lrec2020.lrec-conf.org/en/

ACL Anthology: https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.lrec-1.65/

Abstract: Many interrupt notification methods have been studied, but most of the existing research assumes that, except for the target application, the applications do not control the notification timing. However, if other applications are controlled by the same notification timing, interrupt timing will become concentrated and the effects of notification timing control may not be exerted. In addition, since the installed applications are different for each user, it is necessary to control notification timings while taking into consideration the behaviors of all the applications installed on a user's smartphone. In this research, we define notification timing control while considering the behaviors of all installed applications as ''Adaptive Notification Management'' and then conduct diversity surveys of notifications received by users. In this paper, we report on a system that acquires all notification information while excluding privacy data. We also report on experimental results using actual data collected using crowdsourcing and discuss how to realize the application realizing adaptive notification management.

Conference: http://www.percom.org/Previous/ST2019/