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UDC (Ubuntu Dialogue Corpus)

Introduced by Ryan Lowe et al. in The Ubuntu Dialogue Corpus: A Large Dataset for Research in Unstructured Multi-Turn Dialogue Systems4 Feb 2016 archive 2025-07-28

Ubuntu Dialogue Corpus (UDC) is a dataset containing almost 1 million multi-turn dialogues, with a total of over 7 million utterances and 100 million words. This provides a unique resource for research into building dialogue managers based on neural language models that can make use of large amounts of unlabeled data. The dataset has both the multi-turn property of conversations in the Dialog State Tracking Challenge datasets, and the unstructured nature of interactions from microblog services such as Twitter.

Source: The Ubuntu Dialogue Corpus: A Large Dataset for Research in Unstructured Multi-Turn Dialogue Systems

Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

All 8 leaderboards whose dataset resolves to this page shown (sort by any header). "First row" is the archive's own first row at snapshot, in the archive's row order; nothing here re-ranks and metric direction is not asserted.

First row (archive order)PaperCode
Conversational Response Selection Ubuntu Dialogue (v1, Ranking) Dial-MAE R10@1 0.918 Dial-MAE: ConTextual Masked Auto-Encoder for... suu990901/Dial-MAE 25 Compare
Answer Selection Ubuntu Dialogue (v2, Ranking) BERT + Keep Learning 1 in 10 R@1 82.4 Keep Learning: Self-supervised Meta-learning for... — 2 Compare
Answer Selection Ubuntu Dialogue (v1, Ranking) HRDE-LTC 1 in 10 R@1 0.684 Learning to Rank Question-Answer Pairs using... david-yoon/QA_HRDE_LTC +2 1 Compare
Conversational Response Selection Ubuntu Dialogue (v2, Ranking) Uni-Encoder R10@1 0.859 Uni-Encoder: A Fast and Accurate Response Selection... dll-wu/uni-encoder 1 Compare
Dialogue Generation Ubuntu Dialogue (Activity) MrRNN Act.-Ent. F1 11.43 Multiresolution Recurrent Neural Networks: An... julianser/hed-dlg-truncated +3 1 Compare
Dialogue Generation Ubuntu Dialogue (Cmd) MrRNN Act.-Ent. Accuracy 95.04% Multiresolution Recurrent Neural Networks: An... julianser/hed-dlg-truncated +3 1 Compare
Dialogue Generation Ubuntu Dialogue (Entity) MrRNN Act.-Ent. F1 3.72 Multiresolution Recurrent Neural Networks: An... julianser/hed-dlg-truncated +3 1 Compare
Dialogue Generation Ubuntu Dialogue (Tense) MrRNN Act.-Ent. Accuracy 29.01% Multiresolution Recurrent Neural Networks: An... julianser/hed-dlg-truncated +3 1 Compare

Papers archive 2025-07-28

27 shown of 27 papers with a leaderboard row on this dataset's benchmarks, newest first. The archive's own "papers using this dataset" list was never published, so this is the benchmark-backed subset; the archive's count for this dataset is 46. The Syntology column is from Syntology's graph (read 2026-09-24), stated per sample; it is not part of any archive number.

DateSamples run Syntology
Efficient Dynamic Hard Negative Sampling for Dialogue Selection 1 1 16 Aug 2024 not harvested
Dial-MAE: ConTextual Masked Auto-Encoder for Retrieval-based Dialogue Systems 1 1 7 Jun 2023 not harvested
Small Changes Make Big Differences: Improving Multi-turn Response Selection in Dialogue Systems via Fine-Grained Contrastive Learning 0 1 19 Nov 2021 not harvested
Response Ranking with Multi-types of Deep Interactive Representations in Retrieval-based Dialogues 1 1 17 Aug 2021 not harvested
Uni-Encoder: A Fast and Accurate Response Selection Paradigm for Generation-Based Dialogue Systems 1 3 2 Jun 2021 not harvested
Fine-grained Post-training for Improving Retrieval-based Dialogue Systems 1 1 24 May 2021 not harvested
Keep Learning: Self-supervised Meta-learning for Learning from Inference 0 1 1 Apr 2021 not harvested
Learning an Effective Context-Response Matching Model with Self-Supervised Tasks for Retrieval-based Dialogues 0 1 14 Sep 2020 not harvested
Do Response Selection Models Really Know What's Next? Utterance Manipulation Strategies for Multi-turn Response Selection 1 1 10 Sep 2020 not harvested
Speaker-Aware BERT for Multi-Turn Response Selection in Retrieval-Based Chatbots 2 1 7 Apr 2020 not harvested
Sampling Matters! An Empirical Study of Negative Sampling Strategies for Learning of Matching Models in Retrieval-based Dialogue Systems 0 1 1 Nov 2019 not harvested
Multi-hop Selector Network for Multi-turn Response Selection in Retrieval-based Chatbots 1 1 1 Nov 2019 not harvested
TripleNet: Triple Attention Network for Multi-Turn Response Selection in Retrieval-based Chatbots 0 1 24 Sep 2019 not harvested
Multi-Granularity Representations of Dialog 0 1 26 Aug 2019 not harvested
An Effective Domain Adaptive Post-Training Method for BERT in Response Selection 1 1 13 Aug 2019 not harvested
One Time of Interaction May Not Be Enough: Go Deep with an Interaction-over-Interaction Network for Response Selection in Dialogues 1 1 1 Jul 2019 not harvested
Poly-encoders: Transformer Architectures and Pre-training Strategies for Fast and Accurate Multi-sentence Scoring 7 1 22 Apr 2019 not harvested
Sequential Attention-based Network for Noetic End-to-End Response Selection 4 1 9 Jan 2019 not harvested
Interactive Matching Network for Multi-Turn Response Selection in Retrieval-Based Chatbots 1 1 7 Jan 2019 not harvested
Multi-Turn Response Selection for Chatbots with Deep Attention Matching Network 1 1 1 Jul 2018 not harvested
Modeling Multi-turn Conversation with Deep Utterance Aggregation 1 1 24 Jun 2018 not harvested
Learning to Rank Question-Answer Pairs using Hierarchical Recurrent Encoder with Latent Topic Clustering 3 2 10 Oct 2017 not harvested
Sequential Matching Network: A New Architecture for Multi-turn Response Selection in Retrieval-based Chatbots 3 1 6 Dec 2016 ran 0 of 3 samples (3 unverified)
Multi-view Response Selection for Human-Computer Conversation 0 1 1 Nov 2016 not harvested
Multiresolution Recurrent Neural Networks: An Application to Dialogue Response Generation 4 4 2 Jun 2016 not harvested
Improved Deep Learning Baselines for Ubuntu Corpus Dialogs 0 1 13 Oct 2015 not harvested
The Ubuntu Dialogue Corpus: A Large Dataset for Research in Unstructured Multi-Turn Dialogue Systems 21 1 30 Jun 2015 ran 1 of 26 samples (25 unverified; 1 pointer-only for licence)

Dataset loaders archive 2025-07-28

4 loaders as listed in the archive; links are outbound and not re-checked here.

Tasks archive 2025-07-28

License archive 2025-07-28

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Modalities archive 2025-07-28

Languages archive 2025-07-28

Variants archive 2025-07-28

  • Ubuntu Dialogue (Activity)
  • Ubuntu Dialogue (Entity)
  • Ubuntu Dialogue (Tense)
  • Ubuntu Dialogue (Cmd)
  • Ubuntu Dialogue (v1, Ranking)
  • Ubuntu Dialogue (v2, Ranking)
  • UDC

7 variant names, as the archive lists them.

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