METRO: Towards Strategy Induction from Expert Dialogue Transcripts for Non-collaborative Dialogues (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Developing non-collaborative dialogue agents traditionally requires manual codification of expert strategies. |
| Approach: | They propose a method that formalizes expert knowledge into a Strategy Forest from raw transcripts. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms existing methods by 9%-10% in two benchmarks. |
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