LiveChat: A Large-Scale Personalized Dialogue Dataset Automatically Constructed from Live Streaming

Jingsheng Gao, Yixin Lian, Ziyi Zhou, Yuzhuo Fu, Baoyuan Wang


Abstract
Open-domain dialogue systems have made promising progress in recent years. While the state-of-the-art dialogue agents are built upon large-scale social media data and large pre-trained models, there is no guarantee these agents could also perform well in fast-growing scenarios, such as live streaming, due to the bounded transferability of pre-trained models and biased distributions of public datasets from Reddit and Weibo, etc. To improve the essential capability of responding and establish a benchmark in the live open-domain scenario, we introduce the LiveChat dataset, composed of 1.33 million real-life Chinese dialogues with almost 3800 average sessions across 351 personas and fine-grained profiles for each persona. LiveChat is automatically constructed by processing numerous live videos on the Internet and naturally falls within the scope of multi-party conversations, where the issues of Who says What to Whom should be considered. Therefore, we target two critical tasks of response modeling and addressee recognition and propose retrieval-based baselines grounded on advanced techniques. Experimental results have validated the positive effects of leveraging persona profiles and larger average sessions per persona. In addition, we also benchmark the transferability of advanced generation-based models on LiveChat and pose some future directions for current challenges.
Anthology ID:
2023.acl-long.858
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Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
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July
Year:
2023
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Toronto, Canada
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Anna Rogers, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Naoaki Okazaki
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ACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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15387–15405
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https://aclanthology.org/2023.acl-long.858
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2023.acl-long.858
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Jingsheng Gao, Yixin Lian, Ziyi Zhou, Yuzhuo Fu, and Baoyuan Wang. 2023. LiveChat: A Large-Scale Personalized Dialogue Dataset Automatically Constructed from Live Streaming. In Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 15387–15405, Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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LiveChat: A Large-Scale Personalized Dialogue Dataset Automatically Constructed from Live Streaming (Gao et al., ACL 2023)
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