Proceedings of the Dialogue Robot Competition 2023

December 23, 2023; The National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, Tokyo, Japan

Conference information

The Dialogic Robot Competition 2023 (DRC2023) is a competition for humanoid robots (android robots that closely resemble humans) to compete in interactive capabilities. This is the third year of the competition. The top four teams from the preliminary competition held in November 2023 will compete in the final competition on Saturday, December 23.

The task for the interactive robots is to recommend a tourism plan for a specific region. The robots can employ multimodal behaviors, such as language and gestures, to engage the user in the sightseeing plan they recommend. In the preliminary round, the interactive robots were stationed in a travel agency office, where visitors conversed with them and rated their performance via a questionnaire. In the final round, dialogue researchers and tourism industry professionals interacted with the robots and evaluated their performance. This event allows visitors to gain insights into the types of dialogue services that future dialogue robots should offer.

The proceedings include papers on dialogue systems developed by the 12 teams participating in DRC2023.

Editors

• Ryuichiro Higashinaka (Professor, Nagoya University, Japan)
• Takashi Minato (Team leader, RIKEN Guardian Robot Project, Japan)
• Hiromitsu Nishizaki (Professor, University of Yamanashi, Japan)
• Takayuki Nagai (Professor, Osaka University, Japan)

List of papers (no paticular order)

• Hiroki Onozeki, Zhiyang Qi, Kazuma Akiyama, Ryutaro Asahara, Takumasa Kaneko, Michimasa Inaba, "Enhancing Consistency in Multimodal Dialogue System Using LLM with Dialogue Scenario", [PDF]
• Tamotsu Miyama, Shogo Okada, "Android dialogue system for customer service using prompt-based topic control and compliments generation", [PDF]
• Katsumasa Yoshikawa, Takato Yamazaki, Masaya Ohagi, Tomoya Mizumoto, Keiya Sato, "Developing Interactive Tourism Planning: A Dialogue Robot System Powered by a Large Language Model", [PDF]
• Kotaro Shukuri, Ryoma Ishigaki, Jundai Suzuki, Tsubasa Naganuma, Takuma Fujimoto, Daisuke Kawakubo, Masaki Shuzo, Eisaku Maeda, "Meta-control of Dialogue Systems Using Large Language Models, [PDF]
• Yuki Kubo, Tomoya Yamashita, Masanori Yamada, "Dialogue System of Team NTT-EASE for DRC2023", [PDF]
• Reon Ohashi, Shinjitsu Agatsuma, Kazuya Tsubokura, Yurie Iribe, "Team Irisapu Project Description for DRC2023", [PDF]
• Ryo Yanagimoto, Yunosuke Kubo, Miki Oshio, Mikio Nakano, Kenta Yamamoto, Kazunori Komatani, "User-adaptive Tourist Information Dialogue System with Yes/No Classifier and Sentiment Estimator", [PDF]
• Kai Hisada, Yuna Miyazaki, "Results of the Tokuolab team in the preliminary round of the Dialogue Robot Competition 2023", [PDF]
• Ryu Hirai, Shinya Iizuka, Haruhisa Iseno, Ao Guo, Jingjing Jiang, Atsumoto Ohashi, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, "Team Flow at DRC2023: Building Common Ground and Text-based Turn-taking in a Travel Agent Spoken Dialogue System", [PDF]
• Hyejin Hong, Hibiki Kawano, Takuto Maekawa, Naoki Yoshimaru, Takamasa Iio and Kenji Hatano, "A Summarized History-based Dialogue System for Amnesia-Free Prompt Updates", [PDF]
• Naoki Yoshimaru, Motoharu Okuma, Takamasa Iio and Kenji Hatano, "AsyncMLD: Asynchronous Multi-LLM Framework for Dialogue Recommendation System", [PDF]
• Fukuta Ito, Takumi Iwamoto, Kosuke Shigematsu, "Dialogue Assistant System Using ChatGPT's Function Calling", [PDF]

Acknowledgments

DRC2023 is supported by the project named "the Communicative Intelligent Systems Towards a Human-Machine Symbiotic Society," one of the Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas.

DRC2023 is also conducted with the cooperation of JTB Corp.