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Personalizing Dialogue Agents: I have a dog, do you have pets too?

arXiv 1801.07243 ↗First posted 22 Jan 2018cs.AI cs.CLcited by 820

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Abstract (arXiv)

Chit-chat models are known to have several problems: they lack specificity, do not display a consistent personality and are often not very captivating. In this work we present the task of making chit-chat more engaging by conditioning on profile information. We collect data and train models to (i) condition on their given profile information; and (ii) information about the person they are talking to, resulting in improved dialogues, as measured by next utterance prediction. Since (ii) is initially unknown our model is trained to engage its partner with personal topics, and we show the resulting dialogue can be used to predict profile information about the interlocutors.

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