Self-Explanation Prompting Improves Dialogue Understanding in Large Language Models

Haoyu Gao, Ting-En Lin, Hangyu Li, Min Yang, Yuchuan Wu, Wentao Ma, Fei Huang, Yongbin Li


Abstract
Task-oriented dialogue (TOD) systems facilitate users in executing various activities via multi-turn dialogues, but Large Language Models (LLMs) often struggle to comprehend these intricate contexts. In this study, we propose a novel “Self-Explanation” prompting strategy to enhance the comprehension abilities of LLMs in multi-turn dialogues. This task-agnostic approach requires the model to analyze each dialogue utterance before task execution, thereby improving performance across various dialogue-centric tasks. Experimental results from six benchmark datasets confirm that our method consistently outperforms other zero-shot prompts and matches or exceeds the efficacy of few-shot prompts, demonstrating its potential as a powerful tool in enhancing LLMs’ comprehension in complex dialogue tasks.
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2024.lrec-main.1269
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Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)
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May
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2024
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Torino, Italia
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Min-Yen Kan, Veronique Hoste, Alessandro Lenci, Sakriani Sakti, Nianwen Xue
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LREC | COLING
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14567–14578
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Haoyu Gao, Ting-En Lin, Hangyu Li, Min Yang, Yuchuan Wu, Wentao Ma, Fei Huang, and Yongbin Li. 2024. Self-Explanation Prompting Improves Dialogue Understanding in Large Language Models. In Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), pages 14567–14578, Torino, Italia. ELRA and ICCL.
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