Interview: A Large-Scale Open-Source Corpus of Media Dialog [article]

Bodhisattwa Prasad Majumder, Shuyang Li, Jianmo Ni, Julian McAuley
2020 arXiv   pre-print
Existing conversational datasets consist either of written proxies for dialog or small-scale transcriptions of natural speech. We introduce 'Interview': a large-scale (105K conversations) media dialog dataset collected from news interview transcripts. Compared to existing large-scale proxies for conversational data, language models trained on our dataset exhibit better zero-shot out-of-domain performance on existing spoken dialog datasets, demonstrating its usefulness in modeling real-world
more » ... ersations. 'Interview' contains speaker role annotations for each turn, facilitating the development of engaging, responsive dialog systems. In fact, experiments on two dialog tasks show that leveraging such labels improves performance over strong speaker-agnostic baselines, and enabling models to generate more specific and inquisitive responses in interview-style conversations.
arXiv:2004.03090v1 fatcat:3xpvcou6inhb3fiknjpkheocrq