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title = "An Empirical {B}ayes Framework for Open-Domain Dialogue Generation",
author = "Lee, Jing Yang and
Lee, Kong Aik and
Gan, Woon Seng",
editor = "Gehrmann, Sebastian and
Wang, Alex and
Sedoc, Jo{\~a}o and
Clark, Elizabeth and
Dhole, Kaustubh and
Chandu, Khyathi Raghavi and
Santus, Enrico and
Sedghamiz, Hooman",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Natural Language Generation, Evaluation, and Metrics (GEM)",
month = dec,
year = "2023",
address = "Singapore",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2023.gem-1.17",
pages = "192--204",
abstract = "To engage human users in meaningful conversation, open-domain dialogue agents are required to generate diverse and contextually coherent dialogue. Despite recent advancements, which can be attributed to the usage of pretrained language models, the generation of diverse and coherent dialogue remains an open research problem. A popular approach to address this issue involves the adaptation of variational frameworks. However, while these approaches successfully improve diversity, they tend to compromise on contextual coherence. Hence, we propose the Bayesian Open-domain Dialogue with Empirical Bayes (BODEB) framework, an empirical bayes framework for constructing an Bayesian open-domain dialogue agent by leveraging pretrained parameters to inform the prior and posterior parameter distributions. Empirical results show that BODEB achieves better results in terms of both diversity and coherence compared to variational frameworks.",
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T An Empirical Bayes Framework for Open-Domain Dialogue Generation
%A Lee, Jing Yang
%A Lee, Kong Aik
%A Gan, Woon Seng
%Y Gehrmann, Sebastian
%Y Wang, Alex
%Y Sedoc, João
%Y Clark, Elizabeth
%Y Dhole, Kaustubh
%Y Chandu, Khyathi Raghavi
%Y Santus, Enrico
%Y Sedghamiz, Hooman
%S Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Natural Language Generation, Evaluation, and Metrics (GEM)
%D 2023
%8 December
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Singapore
%F lee-etal-2023-empirical
%X To engage human users in meaningful conversation, open-domain dialogue agents are required to generate diverse and contextually coherent dialogue. Despite recent advancements, which can be attributed to the usage of pretrained language models, the generation of diverse and coherent dialogue remains an open research problem. A popular approach to address this issue involves the adaptation of variational frameworks. However, while these approaches successfully improve diversity, they tend to compromise on contextual coherence. Hence, we propose the Bayesian Open-domain Dialogue with Empirical Bayes (BODEB) framework, an empirical bayes framework for constructing an Bayesian open-domain dialogue agent by leveraging pretrained parameters to inform the prior and posterior parameter distributions. Empirical results show that BODEB achieves better results in terms of both diversity and coherence compared to variational frameworks.
%U https://aclanthology.org/2023.gem-1.17
%P 192-204
Markdown (Informal)
[An Empirical Bayes Framework for Open-Domain Dialogue Generation](https://aclanthology.org/2023.gem-1.17) (Lee et al., GEM-WS 2023)
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