Dynamic Fusion Network for Multi-Domain End-to-end Task-Oriented Dialog (2020.acl-main)
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| Challenge: | Recent studies show remarkable success in end-to-end task-oriented dialog systems . however, most models rely on large training data, which is difficult to scalable for new domains with limited labeled data. |
| Approach: | They propose a shared-private network which exploits the relevance between the target domain and each domain. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms existing methods on multi-domain dialogue by 13.9% on average. |
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