The StatCan Dialogue Dataset: Retrieving Data Tables through Conversations with Genuine Intents

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العنوان: The StatCan Dialogue Dataset: Retrieving Data Tables through Conversations with Genuine Intents
المؤلفون: Lu, Xing Han, Reddy, Siva, de Vries, Harm
المصدر: Proceedings of the 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. (2023) 2799-2829
سنة النشر: 2023
المجموعة: Computer Science
مصطلحات موضوعية: Computer Science - Computation and Language
الوصف: We introduce the StatCan Dialogue Dataset consisting of 19,379 conversation turns between agents working at Statistics Canada and online users looking for published data tables. The conversations stem from genuine intents, are held in English or French, and lead to agents retrieving one of over 5000 complex data tables. Based on this dataset, we propose two tasks: (1) automatic retrieval of relevant tables based on a on-going conversation, and (2) automatic generation of appropriate agent responses at each turn. We investigate the difficulty of each task by establishing strong baselines. Our experiments on a temporal data split reveal that all models struggle to generalize to future conversations, as we observe a significant drop in performance across both tasks when we move from the validation to the test set. In addition, we find that response generation models struggle to decide when to return a table. Considering that the tasks pose significant challenges to existing models, we encourage the community to develop models for our task, which can be directly used to help knowledge workers find relevant tables for live chat users.
Comment: Accepted at EACL 2023
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
DOI: 10.18653/v1/2023.eacl-main.206
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2304.01412
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2304.01412
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv
الوصف
DOI:10.18653/v1/2023.eacl-main.206