Svetlana Stoyanchev

Enabling Semi-Structured Knowledge Access via a Question-Answering Module in Task-oriented Dialogue Systems

Users of task-oriented dialogue systems are often limited to `in-schema queries', i.e., questions constrained by a predefined database structure. Providing access to additional semi- or unstructured knowledge could enable users to enter a wider range of queries answerable by the system. To this end, we have integrate…