Zero-shot Cross-lingual Dialogue Systems with Transferable Latent Variables (D19-1)
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| Challenge: | a lack of research on multilingual or cross-lingual task-oriented dialog systems has limited results . we propose a zero-shot adaptation of task-orientated dialog systems to low-resource languages . task-focused systems are often trained with monolingual datasets that are expensive to build or acquire . |
| Approach: | They propose a zero-shot adaptation of multilingual task-oriented dialog systems to low-resource languages using latent variables and a set of very few parallel word pairs. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model performs better in natural language understanding task compared to state-of-the-art model . the proposed model uses very few parallel word pairs to refine cross-lingual representations . |
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