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"abstract": "With the advances in deep learning, tremendous progress has been made with chitchat dialogue systems and task-oriented dialogue systems. However, these two systems are often tackled separately in current methods. To achieve more natural interaction with humans, dialogue systems need to be capable of both chatting and accomplishing tasks. To this end, we propose a unified dialogue system (UniDS) with the two aforementioned skills. In particular, we design a unified dialogue data schema, compatible for both chitchat and task-oriented dialogues. Besides, we propose a two-stage training method to train UniDS based on the unified dialogue data schema. UniDS does not need to adding extra parameters to existing chitchat dialogue systems. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed UniDS works comparably well as the state-of-the-art chitchat dialogue systems and task-oriented dialogue systems. More importantly, UniDS achieves better robustness than pure dialogue systems and satisfactory switch ability between two types of dialogues. This work demonstrates the feasibility and potential of building a general dialogue system.",
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"text": "Chit-chat Task in one conversation. As illustrated in Figure 1 , users may have communication-oriented needs (e.g. chatting about money and happiness) and task-oriented needs (e.g. hotel reservation) when interacting with a dialogue agent. Furthermore, inputs of dialogue systems are often interfered by background noise, such as voice from other people or devices, collected by the preceding automatic speech recognition (ASR) module. Therefore, the chit-chat ability may also improve the robustness of a task-oriented dialog system (Zhao et al., 2017) .",
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"text": "As shown in Table1, there are many differences between chit-chat and task-oriented dialogues. Creating a single model for different tasks without performance degradation is challenging (Kaiser et al., 2017) . Some works attempt to model different dialogue skills via different experts or adapters (Madotto et al., 2020; Lin et al., 2021) . However, these methods increase the number of parameters and hard to achieve satisfactory performance on both types of dialogues. Besides, previous work lack the exploration of the ability to switch between different types of dialogues.",
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"text": "and TOD in a unified framework (UniDS). Specifically, since chit-chat data do not have explicit belief state and agent action, to unify chit-chat and task-oriented dialogues format, we device belief state and agent act for chit-chat dialogues as taskoriented dialogues. On the other hand, because of the diversity of chit-chat, chit-chat dialogue systems need more training data than task-oriented dialogue systems, e.g., 147,116,725 dialogues for DialoGPT (Radford et al., 2019) and 8,438 dialogues for UBAR (Yang et al., 2021) . To overcome this difference, we propose to train UniDS in a twostage way. A chit-chat model is first trained with huge chit-chat dialogues, and then we train UniDS from the chit-chat dialogue system with mixed dialogues based on our proposed unified dialogue data schema.",
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