Title
Evaluating Prerequisite Qualities for Learning End-to-End Dialog Systems
Abstract
A long-term goal of machine learning is to build intelligent conversational agents. One recent popular approach is to train end-to-end models on a large amount of real dialog transcripts between humans (Sordoni et al., 2015; Vinyals & Le, 2015; Shang et al., 2015). However, this approach leaves many questions unanswered as an understanding of the precise successes and shortcomings of each model is hard to assess. A contrasting recent proposal are the bAbI tasks (Weston et al., 2015b) which are synthetic data that measure the ability of learning machines at various reasoning tasks over toy language. Unfortunately, those tests are very small and hence may encourage methods that do not scale. In this work, we propose a suite of new tasks of a much larger scale that attempt to bridge the gap between the two regimes. Choosing the domain of movies, we provide tasks that test the ability of models to answer factual questions (utilizing OMDB), provide personalization (utilizing MovieLens), carry short conversations about the two, and finally to perform on natural dialogs from Reddit. We provide a dataset covering 75k movie entities and with 3.5M training examples. We present results of various models on these tasks, and evaluate their performance.
Year
Venue
Field
2015
international conference on learning representations
Dialog box,Suite,End-to-end principle,Computer science,MovieLens,Synthetic data,Artificial intelligence,Natural language processing,Machine learning,Personalization
DocType
Volume
Citations 
Journal
abs/1511.06931
41
PageRank 
References 
Authors
1.61
19
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jesse Dodge147219.28
andreea gane2411.94
Xiang Zhang31416120.50
Antoine Bordes43289157.12
Sumit Chopra52835181.37
Alexander H. Miller62219.83
Arthur Szlam71035.05
Jason Weston813068805.30