Synthetic Dialogue Dataset Generation using LLM Agents

Yelaman Abdullin, Diego Molla, Bahadorreza Ofoghi, John Yearwood, Qingyang Li


Abstract
Linear programming (LP) problems are pervasive in real-life applications. However, despite their apparent simplicity, an untrained user may find it difficult to determine the linear model of their specific problem. We envisage the creation of a goal-oriented conversational agent that will engage in conversation with the user to elicit all information required so that a subsequent agent can generate the linear model. In this paper, we present an approach for the generation of sample dialogues that can be used to develop and train such a conversational agent. Using prompt engineering, we develop two agents that “talk” to each other, one acting as the conversational agent, and the other acting as the user. Using a set of text descriptions of linear problems from NL4Opt available to the user only, the agent and the user engage in conversation until the agent has retrieved all key information from the original problem description. We also propose an extrinsic evaluation of the dialogues by assessing how well the summaries generated by the dialogues match the original problem descriptions. We conduct human and automatic evaluations, including an evaluation approach that uses GPT-4 to mimic the human evaluation metrics. The evaluation results show an overall good quality of the dialogues, though research is still needed to improve the quality of the GPT-4 evaluation metrics. The resulting dialogues, including the human annotations of a subset, are available to the research community. The conversational agent used for the generation of the dialogues can be used as a baseline.
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2023.gem-1.16
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Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Natural Language Generation, Evaluation, and Metrics (GEM)
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December
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2023
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Singapore
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Sebastian Gehrmann, Alex Wang, João Sedoc, Elizabeth Clark, Kaustubh Dhole, Khyathi Raghavi Chandu, Enrico Santus, Hooman Sedghamiz
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GEM | WS
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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181–191
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Yelaman Abdullin, Diego Molla, Bahadorreza Ofoghi, John Yearwood, and Qingyang Li. 2023. Synthetic Dialogue Dataset Generation using LLM Agents. In Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Natural Language Generation, Evaluation, and Metrics (GEM), pages 181–191, Singapore. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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