Roll Up Your Sleeves: Working with a Collaborative and Engaging Task-Oriented Dialogue System

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2307.16081v1
• Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2023 21:37:24 GMT
• Title: Roll Up Your Sleeves: Working with a Collaborative and Engaging Task-Oriented Dialogue System
• Authors: Lingbo Mo, Shijie Chen, Ziru Chen, Xiang Deng, Ashley Lewis, Sunit Singh, Samuel Stevens, Chang-You Tai, Zhen Wang, Xiang Yue, Tianshu Zhang, Yu Su, Huan Sun
• Abstract summary: TacoBot is a user-centered task-oriented digital assistant. We aim to deliver a collaborative and engaging dialogue experience. To enhance the dialogue experience, we explore a series of data augmentation strategies.
• Score: 28.75059053433368
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: We introduce TacoBot, a user-centered task-oriented digital assistant designed to guide users through complex real-world tasks with multiple steps. Covering a wide range of cooking and how-to tasks, we aim to deliver a collaborative and engaging dialogue experience. Equipped with language understanding, dialogue management, and response generation components supported by a robust search engine, TacoBot ensures efficient task assistance. To enhance the dialogue experience, we explore a series of data augmentation strategies using LLMs to train advanced neural models continuously. TacoBot builds upon our successful participation in the inaugural Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge, where our team secured third place among ten competing teams. We offer TacoBot as an open-source framework that serves as a practical example for deploying task-oriented dialogue systems.

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