Summary of The 2nd Futuredial Challenge: Dialog Systems with Retrieval Augmented Generation (futuredial-rag), by Yucheng Cai et al.
The 2nd FutureDial Challenge: Dialog Systems with Retrieval Augmented Generation (FutureDial-RAG)
by Yucheng Cai, Si Chen, Yuxuan Wu, Yi Huang, Junlan Feng, Zhijian Ou
First submitted to arxiv on: 21 May 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The FutureDial-RAG challenge at SLT 2024 aims to promote research on retrieval augmented generation (RAG) for dialog systems. The challenge uses the MobileCS2 dataset, a customer service dataset with annotated dialogs and knowledge base query results. Two tasks are defined: track 1 focuses on knowledge retrieval, while track 2 targets response generation. Baseline systems are built for each task, and metrics are designed to measure their performance. Initial results show that it is challenging to perform well on both tasks, encouraging teams and the community to improve RAG applications in real-life dialog systems. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The FutureDial-RAG challenge wants people to help with a new way of making computers talk like humans. They’re using a big dataset of conversations from customer service calls, where someone asks a question and gets an answer. The goal is to make computers better at understanding what people are asking and giving helpful responses. There are two main challenges: one for finding the right information and another for writing good answers. Some basic systems were made to help with these tasks, and special measures were set up to see how well they do. So far, it’s hard to get these computer systems to work well, which means there’s more work to be done to make them helpful. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Knowledge base » Rag » Retrieval augmented generation
