Deep chit-chat: Deep learning for chatbots

Abstract

The tutorial is based on our long-term research on open domain conversation and rich hands-on experience on development of Microsoft XiaoIce. We will summarize the recent achievements made by both academia and industry on chatbots, and give a thorough and systematic introduction to state-of-the-art methods for open domain conversation modeling including both retrieval-based methods and generation-based methods. In addition to these, our tutorial will also cover some new trends of research of chatbots, such as how to design a reasonable evaluation metric for open domain dialogue generation, how to build conversation models with multiple modalities, and how to conduct dialogue management in open domain conversation systems.