Structural Constraints and Natural Language Inference for End-to-End Flowchart Grounded Dialog Response Generation (2022.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing approaches to learn flowchart grounded dialogs have two limitations . Flowchart-based systems require only the chat transcripts and no additional annotations . |
| Approach: | They propose a structure-aware approach to learn flowchart grounded dialogs . it uses structural constraints derived from connectivity structure of flowchartes into a RAG framework . |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach outperforms existing approaches with a success rate of 68% and 123%. |
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