Chefbot: A Novel Framework for the Generation of Commonsense-enhanced Responses for Task-based Dialogue Systems

Carl Strathearn, Dimitra Gkatzia


Abstract
Conversational systems aim to generate responses that are accurate, relevant and engaging, either through utilising neural end-to-end models or through slot filling. Human-to-human conversations are enhanced by not only the latest utterance of the interlocutor, but also by recalling relevant information about concepts/objects covered in the dialogue and integrating them into their responses. Such information may contain recent referred concepts, commonsense knowledge and more. A concrete scenario of such dialogues is the cooking scenario, i.e. when an artificial agent (personal assistant, robot, chatbot) and a human converse about a recipe. We will demo a novel system for commonsense enhanced response generation in the scenario of cooking, where the conversational system is able to not only provide directions for cooking step-by-step, but also display commonsense capabilities by offering explanations of how objects can be used and provide recommendations for replacing ingredients.
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2021.inlg-1.5
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Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Natural Language Generation
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August
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2021
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Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
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Anya Belz, Angela Fan, Ehud Reiter, Yaji Sripada
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INLG
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SIGGEN
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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46–47
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https://aclanthology.org/2021.inlg-1.5
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10.18653/v1/2021.inlg-1.5
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Carl Strathearn and Dimitra Gkatzia. 2021. Chefbot: A Novel Framework for the Generation of Commonsense-enhanced Responses for Task-based Dialogue Systems. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Natural Language Generation, pages 46–47, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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