Treating Dialogue Quality Evaluation as an Anomaly Detection Problem

Authors: Rostislav Nedelchev, Ricardo Usbeck, Jens Lehmann 0001

Year: 2020

Conference: LREC 2020

Abstract: Dialogue systems for interaction with humans have been enjoying increased popularity in the research and industry fields. To this day, the best way to estimate their success is through means of human evaluation and not automated approaches, despite the abundance of work done in the field. In this paper, we investigate the effectiveness of perceiving dialogue evaluation as an anomaly detection task. The paper looks into four dialogue modeling approaches and how their objective functions correlate with human annotation scores. A high-level perspective exhibits negative results. However, a more in-depth look shows some potential for using anomaly detection for evaluating dialogues.

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@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/lrec/NedelchevUL20,
  author       = {Rostislav Nedelchev and
                  Ricardo Usbeck and
                  Jens Lehmann},
  editor       = {Nicoletta Calzolari and
                  Fr{\'{e}}d{\'{e}}ric B{\'{e}}chet and
                  Philippe Blache and
                  Khalid Choukri and
                  Christopher Cieri and
                  Thierry Declerck and
                  Sara Goggi and
                  Hitoshi Isahara and
                  Bente Maegaard and
                  Joseph Mariani and
                  H{\'{e}}l{\`{e}}ne Mazo and
                  Asunci{\'{o}}n Moreno and
                  Jan Odijk and
                  Stelios Piperidis},
  title        = {Treating Dialogue Quality Evaluation as an Anomaly Detection Problem},
  booktitle    = {Proceedings of The 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference,
                  {LREC} 2020, Marseille, France, May 11-16, 2020},
  pages        = {508--512},
  publisher    = {European Language Resources Association},
  year         = {2020},
  url          = {https://aclanthology.org/2020.lrec-1.64/},
  timestamp    = {Fri, 06 Aug 2021 00:40:03 +0200},
  biburl       = {https://dblp.org/rec/conf/lrec/NedelchevUL20.bib},
  bibsource    = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org}
}