Unsupervised Flow Discovery from Task-oriented Dialogues

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2405.01403v1
• Date: Thu, 2 May 2024 15:54:36 GMT
• Title: Unsupervised Flow Discovery from Task-oriented Dialogues
• Authors: Patrícia Ferreira, Daniel Martins, Ana Alves, Catarina Silva, Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira,
• Abstract summary: We propose an approach for the unsupervised discovery of flows from dialogue history. We present concrete examples of flows, discovered from MultiWOZ, a public TOD dataset.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: The design of dialogue flows is a critical but time-consuming task when developing task-oriented dialogue (TOD) systems. We propose an approach for the unsupervised discovery of flows from dialogue history, thus making the process applicable to any domain for which such an history is available. Briefly, utterances are represented in a vector space and clustered according to their semantic similarity. Clusters, which can be seen as dialogue states, are then used as the vertices of a transition graph for representing the flows visually. We present concrete examples of flows, discovered from MultiWOZ, a public TOD dataset. We further elaborate on their significance and relevance for the underlying conversations and introduce an automatic validation metric for their assessment. Experimental results demonstrate the potential of the proposed approach for extracting meaningful flows from task-oriented conversations.

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