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To promote the research and development of dialogue breakdown detection for dialogue systems, we have been organizing a series of dialogue breakdown detection challenges to detect a system’s inappropriate utterances that lead to dialogue breakdowns in chat-oriented dialogue. In this paper, we overview Dialogue Breakdown Detection Challenge 4 (DBDC4). As in the previous challenges, we used datasets in English and Japanese. Four teams participated in the challenge, in which all four teams worked on English, and two of the four teams worked on Japanese as well. This paper describes the task setting, evaluation metrics, and datasets for the challenge and the results of the submitted runs of the participants.
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We would like to thank the participants for their efforts to explore new methods and for submitting their runs and system description papers. We thank Rafael E. Banchs and members of the Conversational Intelligence Challenge for graciously providing us with datasets to make DBDC4 possible. We also thank our sponsors, Denso IT Laboratories and National University of Singapore, for supporting our data collection.
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Higashinaka, R. et al. (2021). Overview of the Dialogue Breakdown Detection Challenge 4. In: Marchi, E., Siniscalchi, S.M., Cumani, S., Salerno, V.M., Li, H. (eds) Increasing Naturalness and Flexibility in Spoken Dialogue Interaction. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 714. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-9323-9_38
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