SkillBot: Identifying Risky Content for Children in Alexa Skills. (arXiv:2102.03382v2 [cs.MA] UPDATED)

Many households include children who use voice personal assistants (VPA) such
as Amazon Alexa. Children benefit from the rich functionalities of VPAs and
third-party apps but are also exposed to new risks in the VPA ecosystem. In
this paper, we first investigate "risky" child-directed voice apps that contain
inappropriate content or ask for personal information through voice
interactions. We build SkillBot - a natural language processing (NLP)-based
system to automatically interact with VPA apps and analyze the resulting
conversations. We …

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