Action-Based Conversations Dataset: A Corpus for Building More In-Depth Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems

@article{Chen2021ActionBasedCD,
  title={Action-Based Conversations Dataset: A Corpus for Building More In-Depth Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems},
  author={Derek Chen and Howard Chen and Yi Yang and Alex Tong Lin and Zhou Yu},
  journal={ArXiv},
  year={2021},
  volume={abs/2104.00783}
}
Existing goal-oriented dialogue datasets focus mainly on identifying slots and values. However, customer support interactions in reality often involve agents following multi-step procedures derived from explicitly-defined company policies as well. To study customer service dialogue systems in more realistic settings, we introduce the Action-Based Conversations Dataset (ABCD), a fully-labeled dataset with over 10K human-to-human dialogues containing 55 distinct user intents requiring unique… 
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