MuTual: A Dataset for Multi-Turn Dialogue Reasoning

Leyang Cui, Yu Wu, Shujie Liu, Yue Zhang, Ming Zhou


Abstract
Non-task oriented dialogue systems have achieved great success in recent years due to largely accessible conversation data and the development of deep learning techniques. Given a context, current systems are able to yield a relevant and fluent response, but sometimes make logical mistakes because of weak reasoning capabilities. To facilitate the conversation reasoning research, we introduce MuTual, a novel dataset for Multi-Turn dialogue Reasoning, consisting of 8,860 manually annotated dialogues based on Chinese student English listening comprehension exams. Compared to previous benchmarks for non-task oriented dialogue systems, MuTual is much more challenging since it requires a model that be able to handle various reasoning problems. Empirical results show that state-of-the-art methods only reach 71%, which is far behind human performance of 94%, indicating that there is ample room for improving reasoning ability.
Anthology ID:
2020.acl-main.130
Volume:
Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Month:
July
Year:
2020
Address:
Online
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ACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
1406–1416
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2020.acl-main.130
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2020.acl-main.130
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Cite (ACL):
Leyang Cui, Yu Wu, Shujie Liu, Yue Zhang, and Ming Zhou. 2020. MuTual: A Dataset for Multi-Turn Dialogue Reasoning. In Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 1406–1416, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Cite (Informal):
MuTual: A Dataset for Multi-Turn Dialogue Reasoning (Cui et al., ACL 2020)
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PDF:
https://preview.aclanthology.org/starsem-semeval-split/2020.acl-main.130.pdf
Dataset:
 2020.acl-main.130.Dataset.zip
Video:
 http://slideslive.com/38928987
Code
 Nealcly/MuTual
Data
MuTualCoQACommonsenseQADREAMDROPDoubanRACESWAGWSC