| Challenge: | Creating polite chatbots requires complex setups that require reinforcement learning to produce coherent responses. |
| Approach: | They propose a polite chatbot that can generate coherent responses to given contexts by using a model that transfers neutral sentences into polite ones and trains a dialogue model. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms baselines in producing polite dialogue responses while staying competitive in terms of coherent to the given context. |
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