Amalgamating Knowledge from Two Teachers for Task-oriented Dialogue System with Adversarial Training (2020.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing approaches to task-oriented dialogue systems require a large number of handcrafted features and labels. |
| Approach: | They propose a "Two-Teacher One-Student" learning framework for task-oriented dialogue . the framework amalgamates knowledge from two teacher networks and provides guidance . |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms baseline methods on two benchmark datasets . it can retrieve accurate KB entities and generate human-like responses simultaneously . |
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