Meet Your Favorite Character: Open-domain Chatbot Mimicking Fictional Characters with only a Few Utterances

Seungju Han, Beomsu Kim, Jin Yong Yoo, Seokjun Seo, Sangbum Kim, Enkhbayar Erdenee, Buru Chang


Abstract
In this paper, we consider mimicking fictional characters as a promising direction for building engaging conversation models. To this end, we present a new practical task where only a few utterances of each fictional character are available to generate responses mimicking them. Furthermore, we propose a new method named Pseudo Dialog Prompting (PDP) that generates responses by leveraging the power of large-scale language models with prompts containing the target character’s utterances. To better reflect the style of the character, PDP builds the prompts in the form of dialog that includes the character’s utterances as dialog history. Since only utterances of the characters are available in the proposed task, PDP matches each utterance with an appropriate pseudo-context from a predefined set of context candidates using a retrieval model. Through human and automatic evaluation, we show that PDP generates responses that better reflect the style of fictional characters than baseline methods.
Anthology ID:
2022.naacl-main.377
Volume:
Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies
Month:
July
Year:
2022
Address:
Seattle, United States
Editors:
Marine Carpuat, Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Ivan Vladimir Meza Ruiz
Venue:
NAACL
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Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
5114–5132
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2022.naacl-main.377
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2022.naacl-main.377
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Cite (ACL):
Seungju Han, Beomsu Kim, Jin Yong Yoo, Seokjun Seo, Sangbum Kim, Enkhbayar Erdenee, and Buru Chang. 2022. Meet Your Favorite Character: Open-domain Chatbot Mimicking Fictional Characters with only a Few Utterances. In Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, pages 5114–5132, Seattle, United States. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Cite (Informal):
Meet Your Favorite Character: Open-domain Chatbot Mimicking Fictional Characters with only a Few Utterances (Han et al., NAACL 2022)
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PDF:
https://aclanthology.org/2022.naacl-main.377.pdf
Video:
 https://aclanthology.org/2022.naacl-main.377.mp4
Code
 hyperconnect/pseudo-dialog-prompting
Data
HLA-ChatThe Pile