Vinayshekhar Kumar


2022

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An Empirical study to understand the Compositional Prowess of Neural Dialog Models
Vinayshekhar Kumar | Vaibhav Kumar | Mukul Bhutani | Alexander Rudnicky
Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Insights from Negative Results in NLP

In this work, we examine the problems associated with neural dialog models under the common theme of compositionality. Specifically, we investigate three manifestations of compositionality: (1) Productivity, (2) Substitutivity, and (3) Systematicity. These manifestations shed light on the generalization, syntactic robustness, and semantic capabilities of neural dialog models. We design probing experiments by perturbing the training data to study the above phenomenon. We make informative observations based on automated metrics and hope that this work increases research interest in understanding the capacity of these models.