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ConvLab-2: An Open-Source Toolkit for Building, Evaluating, and Diagnosing Dialogue Systems

Computation and Language 2020-04-30 v2 Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

We present ConvLab-2, an open-source toolkit that enables researchers to build task-oriented dialogue systems with state-of-the-art models, perform an end-to-end evaluation, and diagnose the weakness of systems. As the successor of ConvLab (Lee et al., 2019b), ConvLab-2 inherits ConvLab's framework but integrates more powerful dialogue models and supports more datasets. Besides, we have developed an analysis tool and an interactive tool to assist researchers in diagnosing dialogue systems. The analysis tool presents rich statistics and summarizes common mistakes from simulated dialogues, which facilitates error analysis and system improvement. The interactive tool provides a user interface that allows developers to diagnose an assembled dialogue system by interacting with the system and modifying the output of each system component.

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@article{arxiv.2002.04793,
  title  = {ConvLab-2: An Open-Source Toolkit for Building, Evaluating, and Diagnosing Dialogue Systems},
  author = {Qi Zhu and Zheng Zhang and Yan Fang and Xiang Li and Ryuichi Takanobu and Jinchao Li and Baolin Peng and Jianfeng Gao and Xiaoyan Zhu and Minlie Huang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.04793},
  year   = {2020}
}

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Accepted by ACL 2020 demo track

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