Language Model Transformers as Evaluators for Open-domain Dialogues

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Computer-based systems for communication with humans are a cornerstone of AI research since the 1950s. So far, the most effective way to assess the quality of the dialogues produced by these systems is to use resource-intensive manual labor instead of automated means. In this work, we investigate whether language models (LM) based on transformer neural networks can indicate the quality of a conversation. In a general sense, language models are methods that learn to predict one or more words based on an already given context. Due to their unsupervised nature, they are candidates for efficient, automatic indication of dialogue quality. We demonstrate that human evaluators have a positive correlation between the output of the language models and scores. We also provide some insights into their behavior and inner-working in a conversational context.

OriginalspracheEnglisch
TitelCOLING 2020 - 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics : Proceedings of the Conference
HerausgeberDonia Scott, Nuria Bel, Chengqing Zong
Anzahl der Seiten12
VerlagAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Erscheinungsdatum01.01.2020
Seiten6797-6808
ISBN (elektronisch)9781952148279
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PublikationsstatusErschienen - 01.01.2020
Extern publiziertJa
Veranstaltung28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING 2020 - Virtual, Online, Spanien
Dauer: 08.12.202013.12.2020
https://coling2020.org
https://coling2020.org/COLING2020programme.pdf

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Funding Information:
We acknowledge the support of the EU projects Cleopatra (GA 812997) and TAILOR (GA 952215), the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) project SPEAKER (FKZ 01MK20011A), the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) projects and excellence clusters ML2R (FKZ 01 15 18038 A/B/C), MLwin (01S18050 D/F), ScaDS.AI (01/S18026A) as well as the Fraunhofer Zukunftsstiftung project JOSEPH.

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