A RealTime System for Summarizing

Abstract

Wehave built a prototype Automatic Dialogue Summarizer #ADS# --- a real#time system that automatically generates simple summaries of completely spontaneous human#human spoken dialogues without the machine interrupting the natural #owof conversation. Two dialogue participants #client and clerk# discuss conference room reservations #CRR# in Japanese, and the system dynamically updates summaries of what rooms were reserved or canceled for what times and by whom. This paper describes the system's architecture, its component technologies, and its performance. We discuss the robustness, e#ciency, and e#ectiveness of the system, and the use of a spontaneous dialogue corpus for development and testing