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WEBDial, a Multi-domain, Multitask Statistical Dialogue Framework with RDF

Computation and Language 2024-01-09 v1

Abstract

Typically available dialogue frameworks have adopted a semantic representation based on dialogue-acts and slot-value pairs. Despite its simplicity, this representation has disadvantages such as the lack of expressivity, scalability and explainability. We present WEBDial: a dialogue framework that relies on a graph formalism by using RDF triples instead of slot-value pairs. We describe its overall architecture and the graph-based semantic representation. We show its applicability from simple to complex applications, by varying the complexity of domains and tasks: from single domain and tasks to multiple domains and complex tasks.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2401.03905,
  title  = {WEBDial, a Multi-domain, Multitask Statistical Dialogue Framework with RDF},
  author = {Morgan Veyret and Jean-Baptiste Duchene and Kekeli Afonouvi and Quentin Brabant and Gwenole Lecorve and Lina M. Rojas-Barahona},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.03905},
  year   = {2024}
}
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