DialGuide: Aligning Dialogue Model Behavior with Developer Guidelines (2023.findings-emnlp)
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Prakhar Gupta, Yang Liu, Di Jin, Behnam Hedayatnia, Spandana Gella, Sijia Liu, Patrick Lange, Julia Hirschberg, Dilek Hakkani-Tur
| Challenge: | Dialogue models are able to generate fluent and interesting responses, but they can be difficult to control and may produce non-engaging, unsafe results. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework for controlling dialogue model behavior using natural language rules, or guidelines, which provide information about the context they are applicable to and what should be included in the response. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework is effective in three open-domain dialogue response generation tasks and is consistent with the developer's expectations and intent. |
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