QualityAdapt: an Automatic Dialogue Quality Estimation Framework

John Mendonca, Alon Lavie, Isabel Trancoso


Abstract
Despite considerable advances in open-domain neural dialogue systems, their evaluation remains a bottleneck. Several automated metrics have been proposed to evaluate these systems, however, they mostly focus on a single notion of quality, or, when they do combine several sub-metrics, they are computationally expensive. This paper attempts to solve the latter: QualityAdapt leverages the Adapter framework for the task of Dialogue Quality Estimation. Using well defined semi-supervised tasks, we train adapters for different subqualities and score generated responses with AdapterFusion. This compositionality provides an easy to adapt metric to the task at hand that incorporates multiple subqualities. It also reduces computational costs as individual predictions of all subqualities are obtained in a single forward pass. This approach achieves comparable results to state-of-the-art metrics on several datasets, whilst keeping the previously mentioned advantages.
Anthology ID:
2022.sigdial-1.9
Volume:
Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
Month:
September
Year:
2022
Address:
Edinburgh, UK
Editors:
Oliver Lemon, Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Junyi Jessy Li, Arash Ashrafzadeh, Daniel Hernández Garcia, Malihe Alikhani, David Vandyke, Ondřej Dušek
Venue:
SIGDIAL
SIG:
SIGDIAL
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
Note:
Pages:
83–90
Language:
URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2022.sigdial-1.9
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2022.sigdial-1.9
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Cite (ACL):
John Mendonca, Alon Lavie, and Isabel Trancoso. 2022. QualityAdapt: an Automatic Dialogue Quality Estimation Framework. In Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, pages 83–90, Edinburgh, UK. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Cite (Informal):
QualityAdapt: an Automatic Dialogue Quality Estimation Framework (Mendonca et al., SIGDIAL 2022)
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PDF:
https://aclanthology.org/2022.sigdial-1.9.pdf
Code
 johndmendonca/qualityadapt
Data
DailyDialogFED