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MSDF: A General Open-Domain Multi-skill Dialog Framework

  • Yu Zhao
  • , Xinshuo Hu
  • , Yunxin Li
  • , Baotian Hu*
  • , Dongfang Li
  • , Sichao Chen
  • , Xiaolong Wang
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen

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Abstract

Dialog systems have achieved significant progress and have been widely used in various scenarios. The previous researches mainly focused on designing dialog generation models in a single scenario, while comprehensive abilities are required to handle tasks under various scenarios in the real world. In this paper, we propose a general Multi-Skill Dialog Framework, namely MSDF, which can be applied in different dialog tasks (e.g. knowledge grounded dialog and persona based dialog). Specifically, we propose a transferable response generator pre-trained on diverse large-scale dialog corpora as the backbone of MSDF, consisting of BERT-based encoders and a GPT-based decoder. To select the response consistent with dialog history, we propose a consistency selector trained through negative sampling. Moreover, the flexible copy mechanism of external knowledge is also employed to enhance the utilization of multiform knowledge in various scenarios. We conduct experiments on knowledge grounded dialog, recommendation dialog, and persona based dialog tasks. The experimental results indicate that our MSDF outperforms the baseline models with a large margin. In the Multi-skill Dialog of 2021 Language and Intelligence Challenge, our general MSDF won the 3rd prize, which proves our MSDF is effective and competitive.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationNatural Language Processing and Chinese Computing - 10th CCF International Conference, NLPCC 2021, Proceedings
EditorsLu Wang, Yansong Feng, Yu Hong, Ruifang He
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages365-376
Number of pages12
ISBN (Print)9783030884826
DOIs
StatePublished - 2021
Externally publishedYes
Event10th CCF Conference on Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing, NLPCC 2021 - Qingdao, China
Duration: 13 Oct 202117 Oct 2021

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume13029 LNAI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference10th CCF Conference on Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing, NLPCC 2021
Country/TerritoryChina
CityQingdao
Period13/10/2117/10/21

Keywords

  • Conversational recommendation
  • Knowledge grounded dialog
  • Multi-skill dialog
  • Persona based dialog

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