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ConVEx: Data-Efficient and Few-Shot Slot Labeling
Matthew Henderson, Ivan Vulić
We propose ConVEx (Conversational Value Extractor), an efficient pretraining and fine-tuning neural approach for slot-labeling dialog tasks. Instead of relying on more general pret…
Span-ConveRT: Few-shot Span Extraction for Dialog with Pretrained Conversational Representations
Sam Coope, Tyler Farghly, Daniela Gerz +2
We introduce Span-ConveRT, a light-weight model for dialog slot-filling which frames the task as a turn-based span extraction task. This formulation allows for a simple integration…
Efficient Intent Detection with Dual Sentence Encoders
Iñigo Casanueva, Tadas Temčinas, Daniela Gerz +2
Building conversational systems in new domains and with added functionality requires resource-efficient models that work under low-data regimes (i.e., in few-shot setups). Motivate…
ConveRT: Efficient and Accurate Conversational Representations from Transformers
Matthew Henderson, Iñigo Casanueva, Nikola Mrkšić +3
General-purpose pretrained sentence encoders such as BERT are not ideal for real-world conversational AI applications; they are computationally heavy, slow, and expensive to train.…
PolyResponse: A Rank-based Approach to Task-Oriented Dialogue with Application in Restaurant Search and Booking
Matthew Henderson, Ivan Vulić, Iñigo Casanueva +7
We present PolyResponse, a conversational search engine that supports task-oriented dialogue. It is a retrieval-based approach that bypasses the complex multi-component design of t…
Training Neural Response Selection for Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems
Matthew Henderson, Ivan Vulić, Daniela Gerz +7
Despite their popularity in the chatbot literature, retrieval-based models have had modest impact on task-oriented dialogue systems, with the main obstacle to their application bei…
A Repository of Conversational Datasets
Matthew Henderson, Paweł Budzianowski, Iñigo Casanueva +8
Progress in Machine Learning is often driven by the availability of large datasets, and consistent evaluation metrics for comparing modeling approaches. To this end, we present a r…
Question-Answer Selection in User to User Marketplace Conversations
Girish Kumar, Matthew Henderson, Shannon Chan +2
Sellers in user to user marketplaces can be inundated with questions from potential buyers. Answers are often already available in the product description. We collected a dataset o…
Efficient Natural Language Response Suggestion for Smart Reply
Matthew Henderson, Rami Al-Rfou, Brian Strope +6
This paper presents a computationally efficient machine-learned method for natural language response suggestion. Feed-forward neural networks using n-gram embedding features encode…