Demonstrating CAT: Synthesizing Data-Aware Conversational Agents for Transactional Databases

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2203.14144v1
• Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2022 19:46:43 GMT
• Title: Demonstrating CAT: Synthesizing Data-Aware Conversational Agents for Transactional Databases
• Authors: Marius Gassen, Benjamin H\"attasch, Benjamin Hilprecht, Nadja Geisler, Alexander Fraser, Carsten Binnig
• Abstract summary: We present CAT, which can be used to create conversational agents for transactional databases. The main idea is that, for a given O database, CAT uses weak supervision to synthesize the required training data. CAT provides an out-of-the-box integration of the resulting agent with the database.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Databases for OLTP are often the backbone for applications such as hotel room or cinema ticket booking applications. However, developing a conversational agent (i.e., a chatbot-like interface) to allow end-users to interact with an application using natural language requires both immense amounts of training data and NLP expertise. This motivates CAT, which can be used to easily create conversational agents for transactional databases. The main idea is that, for a given OLTP database, CAT uses weak supervision to synthesize the required training data to train a state-of-the-art conversational agent, allowing users to interact with the OLTP database. Furthermore, CAT provides an out-of-the-box integration of the resulting agent with the database. As a major difference to existing conversational agents, agents synthesized by CAT are data-aware. This means that the agent decides which information should be requested from the user based on the current data distributions in the database, which typically results in markedly more efficient dialogues compared with non-data-aware agents. We publish the code for CAT as open source.

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