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DialogUSR: Complex Dialogue Utterance Splitting and Reformulation for Multiple Intent Detection

Computation and Language 2022-10-21 v1 Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

While interacting with chatbots, users may elicit multiple intents in a single dialogue utterance. Instead of training a dedicated multi-intent detection model, we propose DialogUSR, a dialogue utterance splitting and reformulation task that first splits multi-intent user query into several single-intent sub-queries and then recovers all the coreferred and omitted information in the sub-queries. DialogUSR can serve as a plug-in and domain-agnostic module that empowers the multi-intent detection for the deployed chatbots with minimal efforts. We collect a high-quality naturally occurring dataset that covers 23 domains with a multi-step crowd-souring procedure. To benchmark the proposed dataset, we propose multiple action-based generative models that involve end-to-end and two-stage training, and conduct in-depth analyses on the pros and cons of the proposed baselines.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2210.11279,
  title  = {DialogUSR: Complex Dialogue Utterance Splitting and Reformulation for Multiple Intent Detection},
  author = {Haoran Meng and Zheng Xin and Tianyu Liu and Zizhen Wang and He Feng and Binghuai Lin and Xuemin Zhao and Yunbo Cao and Zhifang Sui},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.11279},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

Accepted by EMNLP2022(findings); The first three authors contribute equally

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