Probing Neural Dialog Models for Conversational Understanding
Abdelrhman Saleh, Tovly Deutsch, Stephen Casper, Yonatan Belinkov, Stuart Shieber
Abstract
The predominant approach to open-domain dialog generation relies on end-to-end training of neural models on chat datasets. However, this approach provides little insight as to what these models learn (or do not learn) about engaging in dialog. In this study, we analyze the internal representations learned by neural open-domain dialog systems and evaluate the quality of these representations for learning basic conversational skills. Our results suggest that standard open-domain dialog systems struggle with answering questions, inferring contradiction, and determining the topic of conversation, among other tasks. We also find that the dyadic, turn-taking nature of dialog is not fully leveraged by these models. By exploring these limitations, we highlight the need for additional research into architectures and training methods that can better capture high-level information about dialog.- Anthology ID:
- 2020.nlp4convai-1.15
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Conversational AI
- Month:
- July
- Year:
- 2020
- Address:
- Online
- Editors:
- Tsung-Hsien Wen, Asli Celikyilmaz, Zhou Yu, Alexandros Papangelis, Mihail Eric, Anuj Kumar, Iñigo Casanueva, Rushin Shah
- Venue:
- NLP4ConvAI
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 132–143
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2020.nlp4convai-1.15
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/2020.nlp4convai-1.15
- Cite (ACL):
- Abdelrhman Saleh, Tovly Deutsch, Stephen Casper, Yonatan Belinkov, and Stuart Shieber. 2020. Probing Neural Dialog Models for Conversational Understanding. In Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Conversational AI, pages 132–143, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Probing Neural Dialog Models for Conversational Understanding (Saleh et al., NLP4ConvAI 2020)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/proper-vol2-ingestion/2020.nlp4convai-1.15.pdf
- Code
- AbdulSaleh/dialog-probing
- Data
- DailyDialog, GLUE, SGD, SNIPS