Generating Personalized Dialogue via Multi-Task Meta-Learning

Lee, Jing Yang; Lee, Kong Aik; Gan, Woon‐Seng

doi:10.48550/arxiv.2108.03377

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“…With ongoing growth in the field of natural language processing (NLP), it is crucial to make these agents human-like. Lately, prior research has focused on making the conversational agent empathetic [1][2][3][4], personalized [5][6][7] and courteous [8,9]. One of the longstanding objectives of AI is to make the conversational agents behave like humans.…”

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GenPADS: Reinforcing politeness in an end-to-end dialogue system

2023

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In a task-oriented dialogue setting, user’s mood and demands can change in an ongoing dialogue, which may lead to a non-informative conversation or may result in conversation drop-off. To rectify such scenarios, a conversational agent should be able to learn the user’s behaviour online, and form informative, empathetic and interactive responses. To incorporate these three aspects, we propose a novel end-to-end dialogue system GenPADS. First, we build and train two models, viz. a politeness classifier to extract polite information present in user’s and agent’s utterances and a generation model (G) to generate varying but semantically correct responses. We then incorporate both of these models in a reinforcement learning (RL) setting using two different politeness oriented reward algorithms to adapt and generate polite responses. To train our politeness classifier, we annotate recently released Taskmaster dataset into four fine-grained classes depicting politeness and impoliteness. Further, to train our generator model, we prepare a GenDD dataset using the same Taskmaster dataset. Lastly, we train GenPADS and perform automatic and human evaluation by building seven different user simulators. Detailed analysis reveals that GenPADS performs better than the two considered baselines,viz. a transformer based seq2seq generator model for user’s and agent’s utterance and a retrieval based politeness adaptive dialogue system (PADS).

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