Target-oriented Proactive Dialogue Systems with Personalization: Problem Formulation and Dataset Curation (2023.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | a recent study defines a conversation target from the system side to proactively steer conversations toward predefined targets or accomplish specific system-side goals. |
| Approach: | They propose a dataset curation framework that automatically curations a large-scale personalized dialogue dataset using a role-playing approach. |
| Outcome: | The proposed dataset is of high quality and could contribute to exploring personalized target-oriented dialogue. |
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