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Ask No More: Deciding when to guess in referential visual dialogue

17 May 2018COLING 2018 8arXiv:1805.06960archive 2025-07-28

Ravi Shekhar, Tim Baumgartner, Aashish Venkatesh, Elia Bruni, Raffaella Bernardi, Raquel Fernandez

Our goal is to explore how the abilities brought in by a dialogue manager can be included in end-to-end visually grounded conversational agents. We make initial steps towards this general goal by augmenting a task-oriented visual dialogue model with a decision-making component that decides whether to ask a follow-up question to identify a target referent in an image, or to stop the conversation to make a guess. Our analyses show that adding a decision making component produces dialogues that are less repetitive and that include fewer unnecessary questions, thus potentially leading to more efficient and less unnatural interactions.

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