Chat-Ghosting: A Comparative Study of Methods for Auto-Completion in Dialog Systems

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05940v1
• Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2025 12:38:41 GMT
• Title: Chat-Ghosting: A Comparative Study of Methods for Auto-Completion in Dialog Systems
• Authors: Sandeep Mishra, Anubhab Mandal, Bishal Santra, Tushar Abhishek, Pawan Goyal, Manish Gupta,
• Abstract summary: Ghosting is the ability to predict a user's intended text input for inline query auto-completion.<n>By suggesting completions to incomplete queries (or prefixes), ghosting aids users with slow typing speeds, disabilities, or limited language proficiency.<n>Despite the increasing prominence of chat-based systems utilizing ghosting, this challenging problem of Chat-Ghosting has received little attention from the NLP/ML research community.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: Ghosting, the ability to predict a user's intended text input for inline query auto-completion, is an invaluable feature for modern search engines and chat interfaces, greatly enhancing user experience. By suggesting completions to incomplete queries (or prefixes), ghosting aids users with slow typing speeds, disabilities, or limited language proficiency. Ghosting is a challenging problem and has become more important with the ubiquitousness of chat-based systems like ChatGPT, Copilot, etc. Despite the increasing prominence of chat-based systems utilizing ghosting, this challenging problem of Chat-Ghosting has received little attention from the NLP/ML research community. There is a lack of standardized benchmarks and relative performance analysis of deep learning and non-deep learning methods. We address this through an open and thorough study of this problem using four publicly available dialog datasets: two human-human (DailyDialog and DSTC7-Ubuntu) and two human-bot (Open Assistant and ShareGPT). We experiment with various existing query auto-completion methods (using tries), n-gram methods and deep learning methods, with and without dialog context. We also propose a novel entropy-based dynamic early stopping strategy. Our analysis finds that statistical n-gram models and tries outperform deep learning based models in terms of both model performance and inference efficiency for seen prefixes. For unseen queries, neural models like T5 and Phi-2 lead to better results. Adding conversational context leads to significant improvements in ghosting quality, especially for Open-Assistant and ShareGPT. We make code and data publicly available

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