@inproceedings{zhao-eskenazi-2018-zero,
title = "Zero-Shot Dialog Generation with Cross-Domain Latent Actions",
author = "Zhao, Tiancheng and
Eskenazi, Maxine",
editor = "Komatani, Kazunori and
Litman, Diane and
Yu, Kai and
Papangelis, Alex and
Cavedon, Lawrence and
Nakano, Mikio",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 19th Annual {SIG}dial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue",
month = jul,
year = "2018",
address = "Melbourne, Australia",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/W18-5001",
doi = "10.18653/v1/W18-5001",
pages = "1--10",
abstract = "This paper introduces zero-shot dialog generation (ZSDG), as a step towards neural dialog systems that can instantly generalize to new situations with minimum data. ZSDG requires an end-to-end generative dialog system to generalize to a new domain for which only a domain description is provided and no training dialogs are available. Then a novel learning framework, Action Matching, is proposed. This algorithm can learn a cross-domain embedding space that models the semantics of dialog responses which in turn, enables a neural dialog generation model to generalize to new domains. We evaluate our methods on two datasets, a new synthetic dialog dataset, and an existing human-human multi-domain dialog dataset. Experimental results show that our method is able to achieve superior performance in learning dialog models that can rapidly adapt their behavior to new domains and suggests promising future research.",
}
Markdown (Informal)
[Zero-Shot Dialog Generation with Cross-Domain Latent Actions](https://aclanthology.org/W18-5001) (Zhao & Eskenazi, SIGDIAL 2018)
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