# PGTask: Introducing the Task of Profile Generation from Dialogues

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.06634 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2304.06634/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 16 of its 20 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 13 Apr 2023.

## Builds on (most cited first, 16 of 16)

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## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

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## Abstract (arXiv)

Recent approaches have attempted to personalize dialogue systems by leveraging profile information into models. However, this knowledge is scarce and difficult to obtain, which makes the extraction/generation of profile information from dialogues a fundamental asset. To surpass this limitation, we introduce the Profile Generation Task (PGTask). We contribute with a new dataset for this problem, comprising profile sentences aligned with related utterances, extracted from a corpus of dialogues. Furthermore, using state-of-the-art methods, we provide a benchmark for profile generation on this novel dataset. Our experiments disclose the challenges of profile generation, and we hope that this introduces a new research direction.