Designing Multilingual Interactive Agents using Small Dialogue Corpora (2020.lrec-1)
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| Challenge: | a new study aims to develop a design framework for multilingual interactive agents . large amounts of data and language resources are needed to develop most key components . |
| Approach: | They propose a general design framework for multilingual interactive agents in specialized domains with small or non-existent dialogue corpora. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework integrates external language services for supporting multilingual functions and realizes context-aware dialogue generation under the situation of small corpora. |
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