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Lifelong Knowledge Learning in Rule-based Dialogue Systems

Artificial Intelligence 2020-11-20 v1 Human-Computer Interaction Machine Learning

Abstract

One of the main weaknesses of current chatbots or dialogue systems is that they do not learn online during conversations after they are deployed. This is a major loss of opportunity. Clearly, each human user has a great deal of knowledge about the world that may be useful to others. If a chatbot can learn from their users during chatting, it will greatly expand its knowledge base and serve its users better. This paper proposes to build such a learning capability in a rule-based chatbot so that it can continuously acquire new knowledge in its chatting with users. This work is useful because many real-life deployed chatbots are rule-based.

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@article{arxiv.2011.09811,
  title  = {Lifelong Knowledge Learning in Rule-based Dialogue Systems},
  author = {Bing Liu and Chuhe Mei},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.09811},
  year   = {2020}
}
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