Challenge: Existing studies focus on generating implicit user profiles from the user’s dialogue history, thus it suffers from data sparsity and performance degradation.
Approach: They propose a self-supervised learning framework MCP for capturing better representations from users’ dialogue history for personalized chatbots.
Outcome: The proposed model improves on two real-world datasets.

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