AirDialogue: An Environment for Goal-Oriented Dialogue Research (D18-1)

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Challenge: Recent advances in dialogue generation have inspired a number of studies on dialogue systems . however, current datasets are limited in size and the environment for training agents is relatively unsophisticated.
Approach: They propose to use a context-generator to generate travel and flight restrictions to train agents.
Outcome: The proposed model achieves a score of 0.17 while humans can reach 0.91 . the proposed model is based on a large dataset that contains 301,427 goal-oriented conversations .

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