Slugbot: An Application of a Novel and Scalable Open Domain Socialbot Framework

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In this paper we introduce a novel, open domain socialbot for the Amazon Alexa Prize competition, aimed at carrying on friendly conversations with users on a variety of topics.

• We present our modular system, highlighting our different data sources and how we use the human mind as a model for data management.
• Additionally we build and employ natural language understanding and information retrieval tools and APIs to expand our knowledge bases.
• We describe our semistructured, scalable framework for crafting topic-specific dialogue flows, and give details on our dialogue management schemes and scoring mechanisms.