Incremental Transformer with Deliberation Decoder for Document Grounded Conversations (P19-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing dialogue systems do not exploit document knowledge effectively enough. |
| Approach: | They propose a Transformer-based architecture for document grounded conversations that incorporates document knowledge into a two-pass decoder to improve context coherence and knowledge correctness. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms baselines on context coherence and knowledge relevance on a real-world document grounded dataset. |
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