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Lifelong and Interactive Learning of Factual Knowledge in Dialogues (arxiv.org)
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In plain words: A dialogue system that keeps adding new facts to its fact store as it chats, instead of relying on a fixed list that never changes. Testing showed it grew able to answer more questions over time than a system stuck with its original facts.

Abstract

Dialogue systems are increasingly using knowledge bases (KBs) storing real-world facts to help generate quality responses. However, as the KBs are inherently incomplete and remain fixed during conversation, it limits dialogue systems' ability to answer questions and to handle questions involving entities or relations that are not in the KB. In this paper, we make an attempt to propose an engine for Continuous and Interactive Learning of Knowledge (CILK) for dialogue systems to give them the ability to continuously and interactively learn and infer new knowledge during conversations. With more knowledge accumulated over time, they will be able to learn better and answer more questions. Our empirical evaluation shows that CILK is promising.

Sahisnu Mazumder, Bing Liu, Shuai Wang, Nianzu Ma
arXiv:1907.13295 · cs.CL, cs.AI, cs.HC · submitted Jul 31, 2019 · updated Dec 21, 2019
abstract · pdf · html · Published in SIGDIAL 2019

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