{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/talking-to-myself-self-dialogues-as-data-for","title":"Talking to myself: self-dialogues as data for conversational agents","arxiv_id":"1809.06641","date":"2018-09-18","proceeding":null,"authors":["Joachim Fainberg","Ben Krause","Mihai Dobre","Marco Damonte","Emmanuel Kahembwe","Daniel Duma","Bonnie Webber","Federico Fancellu"],"abstract":"Conversational agents are gaining popularity with the increasing ubiquity of\nsmart devices. However, training agents in a data driven manner is challenging\ndue to a lack of suitable corpora. This paper presents a novel method for\ngathering topical, unstructured conversational data in an efficient way:\nself-dialogues through crowd-sourcing. Alongside this paper, we include a\ncorpus of 3.6 million words across 23 topics. We argue the utility of the\ncorpus by comparing self-dialogues with standard two-party conversations as\nwell as data from other corpora.","url_abs":"http://arxiv.org/abs/1809.06641v2","url_pdf":"http://arxiv.org/pdf/1809.06641v2.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"talking-to-myself-self-dialogues-as-data-for","repo_url":"https://github.com/jfainberg/self_dialogue_corpus","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"syntology_url":"https://syntology.ai/paper/1809.06641","atlas_url":"https://app.syntology.ai/?focus=1809.06641","mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}