Laetitia Hilgendorf


2025

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Retrieving Relevant Knowledge Subgraphs for Task-Oriented Dialogue
Nicholas Thomas Walker | Pierre Lison | Laetitia Hilgendorf | Nicolas Wagner | Stefan Ultes
Proceedings of the 26th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue

In this paper, we present an approach for extracting knowledge graph information for retrieval augmented generation in dialogue systems. Knowledge graphs are a rich source of background information, but the inclusion of more potentially useful information in a system prompt risks decreased model performance from excess context. We investigate a method of retrieving relevant subgraphs of maximum relevance and minimum size by framing this trade-off as a Prize-collecting Steiner Tree problem. The results of our user study and analysis indicate promising efficacy of a simple subgraph retrieval approach compared with a top-K retrieval model.