@article{serban-etal-2018-survey,
    title = "A Survey of Available Corpora For Building Data-Driven Dialogue Systems: The Journal Version",
    author = "Serban, Iulian Vlad  and
      Lowe, Ryan  and
      Henderson, Peter  and
      Charlin, Laurent  and
      Pineau, Joelle",
    editor = "Traum, David  and
      Demberg, Vera  and
      Stent, Amanda  and
      Taboada, Maite  and
      Stede, Manfred  and
      Poesio, Massimo",
    journal = "Dialogue {\&} Discourse",
    volume = "9",
    year = "2018",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-dnd/2018.dnd-9.7/",
    doi = "10.5087/dad.2018.101",
    pages = "1--49",
    abstract = "During the past decade, several areas of speech and language understanding have witnessed substantial breakthroughs from the use of data-driven models. In the area of dialogue systems, the trend is less obvious, and most practical systems are still built through significant engineering and expert knowledge. Nevertheless, several recent results suggest that data-driven approaches are feasible and quite promising. To facilitate research in this area, we have carried out a wide survey of publicly available datasets suitable for data-driven learning of dialogue systems. We discuss important characteristics of these datasets, how they can be used to learn diverse dialogue strategies, and their other potential uses. We also examine methods for transfer learning between datasets and the use of external knowledge. Finally, we discuss appropriate choice of evaluation metrics for the learning objective."
}