Listening chat system that does not keep listening

• Listening Chat System, where the system initially asks a question for each statement, and later adds a mode called “Listen First” where the user listens by repeating a question without asking a question. But this is a global switch between “100% questions” and “0% questions”. Isn’t that what we really need?

One-shot question function

• Even in “listen first” mode, if I say, “Do you have any questions?” or “Go ahead,” they’ll ask a single question.

Question probability up/down

• Increase or decrease the probability of a question
• This may not be straightforward.
• If the user wants you to ask a question and the system incorrectly decides that it doesn’t want you to ask a question now, it stops.
• If you’re going to do it, I’d rather have an easy-to-understand rule base than complicated content-based guesses.
  • For example, if you wait one second after the user’s input and the user makes a new input, you decide that you don’t want the user to ask a question now.
  • The above “one-shot question function” is one of the easy-to-understand rules to “clarify when the user wants to ask a question”.

If they don’t respond all the time, there’s no need to limit it to chat.

• For example, if you post a series of tweets on Twitter and then mentions it to the bot, it’ll look at the last 10 or so tweets and throw a question at you.

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