Knowledge Enhanced Fine-Tuning for Better Handling Unseen Entities in Dialogue Generation (2021.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for dialogue generation use an external knowledge base to generate appropriate responses. |
| Approach: | They propose to use an external knowledge base to generate appropriate responses for unseen entities. |
| Outcome: | Experiments on two dialogue corpus show that pre-trained models perform poorly with unseen entities. |
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