Conversational Interface Personality Adaptation via Lexical Analysis

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conversational interfaces often fail to provide a dynamic and believable experience for users as they are typically associated with a single personality, lacking the ability to adapt to the lexical personality and preferences of individual users.

Innovation Solution

The system analyzes user inputs to determine their lexical personality through characteristics like formality, politeness, and accent, and uses a repository of synonym tokens with associated scores to generate personalized responses, and also utilizes social network information to identify personas that match user profiles, modifying responses to align with user preferences and social interactions.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If a conversational interface uses a single fixed personality for all interactions, then the system complexity is low and ease of operation is high, but the adaptability to individual users and believability of interactions deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveadaptability to user personalityVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The conversational interface dynamically adjusts its personality characteristics based on the detected lexical personality of the user. The system transitions from a static single-personality model to a dynamic multi-personality model that adapts in real-time, allowing the interface to exhibit different personality traits (formality, politeness, enthusiasm, etc.) depending on the user's characteristics while maintaining manageable system complexity through automated detection and adaptation algorithms.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes key personality parameters (formality, politeness, enthusiasm, assertiveness) based on the user's lexical personality scores. By adjusting these parameters dynamically, the conversational interface can match the user's communication style and preferences, improving adaptability without requiring a complete system redesign.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Adaptability or versatility

If the conversational interface analyzes lexical personality and uses synonym tokens to personalize responses, then the adaptability and user experience improve, but the device complexity and processing requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepersonalization capabilityVSAvoidprocessing complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The personality adaptation system is segmented into distinct functional modules: lexical personality detection module, synonym token repository, response personalization module, and social network integration module. Each module handles a specific aspect of the personalization process, making the overall complex system more manageable and maintainable while delivering comprehensive personalization capabilities.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary analysis of the user's lexical personality and pre-loads relevant synonym tokens and persona characteristics before actual conversations begin. This preliminary action reduces processing complexity during live interactions, as the personalization data is already prepared and cached, allowing rapid response generation without real-time computation of personality metrics.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Measurement precision

If social network information is integrated to identify user personas, then the accuracy of personalization improves, but the loss of user privacy information and system complexity increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepersonalization accuracyVSAvoiduser privacy
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The system extracts only the necessary and minimal personalization data from social network information, such as publicly available persona preferences and interaction patterns, while leaving sensitive private information untouched. By selectively extracting only what is needed for personalization (e.g., preferred communication style, topics of interest), the system improves personalization accuracy without unnecessarily compromising user privacy.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Data Source

PatentUS10878816B2Persona-based conversational interface personalization using social network preferences
Publication Date: 2020.12.29 THE TORONTO DOMINION BANK
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AI summary

The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer implemented methods for personalizing interactions within a conversational interface based on an input context. One example system performs operations including receiving a conversational input via a conversational interface associated with a particular user profile. The input is analyzed via a natural language processing engine to determine an intent and a personality input type. A persona response type associated with the determined personality input type is identified, and responsive content is determined. A particular persona associated with the particular user profile based on a related set of social network activity information associated with the user profile and that corresponds to the identified persona response type is identified. The responsive content is modified by applying persona-related content associated with the identified particular persona to generate a persona-associated response, and the persona-associated response is transmitted to a device associated with the particular user profile.