# Emora: An Inquisitive Social Chatbot Who Cares For You

**Authors:** Sarah E. Finch, James D. Finch, Ali Ahmadvand,  Ingyu,  Choi, Xiangjue Dong, Ruixiang Qi, Harshita Sahijwani, Sergey Volokhin, Zihan Wang, Zihao Wang, Jinho D. Choi  
**arXiv:** [2009.04617](https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.04617)  
**Date:** 2020-09-10  
**Summary page:** https://www.summarizepaper.com/en/paper/2009.04617v1/

## Key points

- Emora is a social chatbot developed by Emory University
- It aims to bring experience-focused interaction to conversational AI
- Emora supports collaborative understanding and learning processes of the partner's life experiences
- It utilizes highly expressive natural language templates, powerful intent classification, and ontology resources
- The paper "Emora: An Inquisitive Social Chatbot Who Cares For You" presents the features of Emora
- Authored by Sarah E. Finch, James D. Finch, Ali Ahmadvand, Ingyu Choi, Xiangjue Dong, Ruixiang Qi, Harshita Sahijwani, Sergey Volokhin, Zihan Wang, Zihao Wang and Jinho D. Choi
- Published in the 3rd Proceedings of Alexa Prize (Alexa Prize 2019)
- Inspired by studies on the prevalence of experience-sharing in human conversations
- Emora focuses on opinion-oriented exchanges rather than traditional information-sharing topic handlers

## Summary

Emora is a social chatbot developed by Emory University that aims to bring experience-focused interaction to the field of conversational AI. It introduces new conversational abilities that support collaborative understanding and learning processes of the partner's life experiences. The chatbot utilizes highly expressive natural language templates, powerful intent classification, and ontology resources to provide an engaging and interesting conversational experience for every user. The paper "Emora: An Inquisitive Social Chatbot Who Cares For You" presents a curated dialogue system that showcases these features. Authored by Sarah E. Finch, James D. Finch, Ali Ahmadvand, Ingyu Choi, Xiangjue Dong, Ruixiang Qi, Harshita Sahijwani, Sergey Volokhin, Zihan Wang, Zihao Wang and Jinho D. Choi , this work was published in the 3rd Proceedings of Alexa Prize (Alexa Prize 2019). Inspired by studies on the prevalence of experience-sharing in human conversations, Emora goes beyond traditional information-sharing topic handlers and focuses on opinion-oriented exchanges.