Lifelong and interactive learning of factual knowledge in dialogues

Sahisnu Mazumder, Bing Liu, Shuai Wang, Nianzu Ma

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Abstract

Dialogue systems are increasingly using knowledge bases (KBs) storing real-world facts to help generate quality responses. However, as the KBs are inherently incomplete and remain fixed during conversation, it limits dialogue systems’ ability to answer questions and to handle questions involving entities or relations that are not in the KB. In this paper, we make an attempt to propose an engine for Continuous and Interactive Learning of Knowledge (CILK) for dialogue systems to give them the ability to continuously and interactively learn and infer new knowledge during conversations. With more knowledge accumulated over time, they will be able to learn better and answer more questions. Our empirical evaluation shows that CILK is promising.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationSIGDIAL 2019 - 20th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group Discourse Dialogue - Proceedings of the Conference
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages21-31
Number of pages11
ISBN (Electronic)9781950737611
StatePublished - 2019
Externally publishedYes
Event20th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, SIGDIAL 2019 - Stockholm, Sweden
Duration: Sep 11 2019Sep 13 2019

Publication series

NameSIGDIAL 2019 - 20th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group Discourse Dialogue - Proceedings of the Conference

Conference

Conference20th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, SIGDIAL 2019
Country/TerritorySweden
CityStockholm
Period9/11/199/13/19

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