Recent approaches have attempted to personalize dialogue systems by leveraging profile information into models. However, this knowledge is scarce and difficult to obtain, which makes the extraction/generation of profile information from dialogues a fundamental asset. To surpass this limitation, we introduce the Profile Generation Task (PGTask). We contribute with a new dataset for this problem, comprising profile sentences aligned with related utterances, extracted from a corpus of dialogues. Furthermore, using state-of-the-art methods, we provide a benchmark for profile generation on this novel dataset. Our experiments disclose the challenges of profile generation, and we hope that this introduces a new research direction.
@article{arxiv.2304.06634,
title = {PGTask: Introducing the Task of Profile Generation from Dialogues},
author = {Rui Ribeiro and Joao P. Carvalho and Luísa Coheur},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.06634},
year = {2023}
}