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DIALKI: Knowledge Identification in Conversational Systems through Dialogue-Document Contextualization

Dialki: تحديد المعرفة في أنظمة المحادثة من خلال حوار الوثيقة الحوار

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 Publication date 2021
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Identifying relevant knowledge to be used in conversational systems that are grounded in long documents is critical to effective response generation. We introduce a knowledge identification model that leverages the document structure to provide dialogue-contextualized passage encodings and better locate knowledge relevant to the conversation. An auxiliary loss captures the history of dialogue-document connections. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our model on two document-grounded conversational datasets and provide analyses showing generalization to unseen documents and long dialogue contexts.



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