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title = "Personalized Topic Selection Model for Topic-Grounded Dialogue",
author = "Fan, Shixuan and
Wei, Wei and
Wen, Xiaofei and
Mao, Xian-Ling and
Chen, Jixiong and
Chen, Dangyang",
editor = "Ku, Lun-Wei and
Martins, Andre and
Srikumar, Vivek",
booktitle = "Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics ACL 2024",
month = aug,
year = "2024",
address = "Bangkok, Thailand and virtual meeting",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-acl.429",
pages = "7188--7202",
abstract = "Recently, the topic-grounded dialogue (TGD) system has become increasingly popular as its powerful capability to actively guide users to accomplish specific tasks through topic-guided conversations. Most existing works utilize side information (e.g. topics or personas) in isolation to enhance the topic selection ability. However, due to disregarding the noise within these auxiliary information sources and their mutual influence, current models tend to predict user-uninteresting and contextually irrelevant topics. To build user-engaging and coherent dialogue agent, we propose a personalized topic selection model for topic-grounded dialogue, named PETD, which takes account of the interaction of side information to selectively aggregate such information for more accurately predicting subsequent topics. Specifically, we evaluate the correlation between global topics and personas and selectively incorporate the global topics aligned with user personas. Furthermore, we propose a contrastive learning based persona selector to filter relevant personas under the constraint of lacking pertinent persona annotations. Throughout the selection and generation, diverse relevant side information is considered. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our proposed method can generate engaging and diverse responses, outperforming state-of-the-art baselines across various evaluation metrics.",
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Personalized Topic Selection Model for Topic-Grounded Dialogue
%A Fan, Shixuan
%A Wei, Wei
%A Wen, Xiaofei
%A Mao, Xian-Ling
%A Chen, Jixiong
%A Chen, Dangyang
%Y Ku, Lun-Wei
%Y Martins, Andre
%Y Srikumar, Vivek
%S Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics ACL 2024
%D 2024
%8 August
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Bangkok, Thailand and virtual meeting
%F fan-etal-2024-personalized
%X Recently, the topic-grounded dialogue (TGD) system has become increasingly popular as its powerful capability to actively guide users to accomplish specific tasks through topic-guided conversations. Most existing works utilize side information (e.g. topics or personas) in isolation to enhance the topic selection ability. However, due to disregarding the noise within these auxiliary information sources and their mutual influence, current models tend to predict user-uninteresting and contextually irrelevant topics. To build user-engaging and coherent dialogue agent, we propose a personalized topic selection model for topic-grounded dialogue, named PETD, which takes account of the interaction of side information to selectively aggregate such information for more accurately predicting subsequent topics. Specifically, we evaluate the correlation between global topics and personas and selectively incorporate the global topics aligned with user personas. Furthermore, we propose a contrastive learning based persona selector to filter relevant personas under the constraint of lacking pertinent persona annotations. Throughout the selection and generation, diverse relevant side information is considered. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our proposed method can generate engaging and diverse responses, outperforming state-of-the-art baselines across various evaluation metrics.
%U https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-acl.429
%P 7188-7202
Markdown (Informal)
[Personalized Topic Selection Model for Topic-Grounded Dialogue](https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-acl.429) (Fan et al., Findings 2024)
ACL
- Shixuan Fan, Wei Wei, Xiaofei Wen, Xian-Ling Mao, Jixiong Chen, and Dangyang Chen. 2024. Personalized Topic Selection Model for Topic-Grounded Dialogue. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics ACL 2024, pages 7188–7202, Bangkok, Thailand and virtual meeting. Association for Computational Linguistics.