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GODEL: Combining goal-oriented dialog with real-world conversations
| Baolin Peng, Michel Galley, Lars Liden, Chris Brockett, Zhou Yu, and Jianfeng Gao
They make restaurant recommendations, help us pay bills, and remind us of appointments. Many people have come to rely on virtual assistants and chatbots to perform a wide range of routine tasks. But what if a single dialog agent, the…
Research Collection: Tools and Data to Advance the State of the Art
“This is a game changer for the big data community. Initiatives like Microsoft Research Open Data reduce barriers to data sharing and encourage reproducibility by leveraging the power of cloud computing” —Sam Madden, Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology An open…
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Microsoft Releases DialogGPT AI Conversation Model
Microsoft Research's Natural Language Processing Group released the dialogue generative pre-trained transformer (DialoGPT), a pre-trained deep-learning natural language processing (NLP) model for automatic conversation response generation. The model was trained on over 147M dialogues and achieves state-of-the-art results on several benchmarks.