| # SalesBot: Transitioning from Chit-Chat to Task-Oriented Dialogues | |
| ## Framework | |
| <p align="center"> | |
| <img src="img/framework.png" width="100%" /> | |
| </p> | |
| This paper focuses on investigating the conversations starting from open-domain social chatting and then gradually transitioning to task-oriented purposes, and releases a large-scale dataset with detailed annotations for encouraging this research direction. To achieve this goal, this paper proposes a framework to automatically generate many dialogues without human involvement, in which any powerful open-domain dialogue generation model can be easily leveraged. | |
| ## Dependency | |
| Check the packages needed or simply run the command | |
| ```console | |
| conda env create -f environment.yml | |
| ``` | |
| ## Data | |
| * selfchat: | |
| ```console | |
| mkdir selfchat | |
| parlai self_chat --model-file zoo:blender/blender_1Bdistill/model --inference nucleus --num-self-chats 20 --task blended_skill_talk --include-personas True --include-initial-utterances True --outfile selfchat/merge_sgd_20.json | |
| parlai self_chat --model-file zoo:blender/blender_1Bdistill/model --inference nucleus --num-self-chats 20 --task blended_skill_talk --include-personas True --include-initial-utterances True --outfile selfchat/simulators_20.json | |
| ``` | |
| * intent detection model: | |
| ```console | |
| python3 qa_inference.py --data_file selfchat/merge_sgd_20.jsonl --output_file merge_sgd_intent.json --device 0 | |
| python3 qa_inference.py --data_file selfchat/simulators_20.jsonl --output_file simulators_intent.json --device 0 | |
| ``` | |
| * task-oriented simulators: | |
| ```console | |
| python3 combine_simulators.py simulators_intent.json | |
| ``` | |
| * merge SGD: | |
| ```console | |
| # SGD_delex is the version preprocessed by "ACCENTOR: Adding Chit-Chat to Enhance Task-Oriented Dialogues" | |
| unzip SGD_delex | |
| mkdir sgd_intent_dialog | |
| python3 collect_sgd_intent.py SGD_delex | |
| python3 combine_sgd.py merge_sgd_intent.json | |
| ``` | |
| * transition: | |
| ```console | |
| python3 transition.py combine_sgd.json | |
| python3 transition.py combine_simulators.json | |
| ``` | |
| ## Citation | |
| Please cite our paper if you use SalesBot in your work: | |
| ```bibtex | |
| @inproceedings{chiu2022salesbot, | |
| title={{SalesBot}: Transitioning from Chit-Chat to Task-Oriented Dialogues}, | |
| author={Chiu, Ssu and Li, Maolin and Lin, Yen-Ting and Chen, Yun-Nung}, | |
| booktitle={Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)}, | |
| year={2022} | |
| } | |
| ``` | |