doc2dial: A Goal-Oriented Document-Grounded Dialogue Dataset
This dataset addresses the need for diverse, document-grounded dialogue data for training and evaluating AI models in information-seeking scenarios, though it is incremental as it builds on prior work.
The authors introduced doc2dial, a dataset of 4800 goal-oriented dialogues grounded in 480 documents across four domains, with an average of 14 turns per conversation, to support information-seeking tasks.
We introduce doc2dial, a new dataset of goal-oriented dialogues that are grounded in the associated documents. Inspired by how the authors compose documents for guiding end users, we first construct dialogue flows based on the content elements that corresponds to higher-level relations across text sections as well as lower-level relations between discourse units within a section. Then we present these dialogue flows to crowd contributors to create conversational utterances. The dataset includes about 4800 annotated conversations with an average of 14 turns that are grounded in over 480 documents from four domains. Compared to the prior document-grounded dialogue datasets, this dataset covers a variety of dialogue scenes in information-seeking conversations. For evaluating the versatility of the dataset, we introduce multiple dialogue modeling tasks and present baseline approaches.