This code is official implementation of "NeuralWOZ: Learning to Collect Task-Oriented Dialogue via Model-based Simulation".

Sungdong Kim, Minsuk Chang, Sang-woo Lee
In ACL 2021.

@inproceedings{kim2021neuralwoz,
  title={NeuralWOZ: Learning to Collect Task-Oriented Dialogue via Model-based Simulation},
  author={Kim, Sungdong and Chang, Minsuk and Lee, Sang-woo},
  booktitle={ACL},
  year={2021}
}

python3.6
torch==1.4.0
transformers==2.11.0

Please install apex for the mixed precision training.
See details in requirements.txt

Please run this script at first. It will create data repository, and save and preprocess MultiWOZ 2.1 dataset.

python3 create_data.py

To train NeuralWOZ under various settings, you should create each training instances with running below script.

python3 neuralwoz/preprocess.py --exceptd $TARGET_DOMAIN --fewshot_ratio $FEWSHOT_RATIO

• exceptd: Specify "target domain" to exclude from training dataset for leave-one-out scheme. It is one of the (hotel|restaurant|attraction|train|taxi).
• fewshot_ratio: Choose proportion of examples in the target domain to include. Default is 0. which means zero-shot. It is one of the (0.|0.01|0.05|0.1). You can check the fewshot examples in the assets/fewshot_key.json.

This script will create "$TARGET_DOMAIN_$FEWSHOT_RATIO_collector_(train|dev).json" and "$TARGET_DOMAIN_$FEWSHOT_RATIO_labeler_train.h5".

You should specify output_path to save the trained model.
Each output consists of the below four files after the training.

• pytorch_model.bin
• config.json
• vocab.json
• merges.txt

For each zero/few-shot settings, you should set the TRAIN_DATA and DEV_DATA from the preprocessing. For example, hotel_0.0_collector_(train|dev).json should be used for the Collector training when the target domain is hotel in the zero-shot domain transfer task.

We use N_GPU=4 and N_ACCUM=2 for Collector training and N_GPU=2 and N_ACCUM=2 for Labeler training to fit 32 for batch size based on V100 32GB GPU.

python3 neuralwoz/train_collector.py \
  --dataset_dir data \
  --output_path $OUTPUT_PATH \
  --model_name_or_path facebook/bart-large \
  --train_data $TRAIN_DATA \
  --dev_data $DEV_DATA \
  --n_gpu $N_GPU \
  --per_gpu_train_batch_size 4 \
  --num_train_epochs 30 \
  --learning_rate 1e-5 \
  --gradient_accumulation_steps $N_ACCUM \
  --warmup_steps 1000 \
  --fp16

python3 neuralwoz/train_labeler.py \
  --dataset_dir data \
  --output_path $OUTPUT_PATH \
  --model_name_or_path roberta-base-dream \
  --train_data $TRAIN_DATA \
  --dev_data labeler_dev_data.json \
  --n_gpu $N_GPU \
  --per_gpu_train_batch_size 8 \
  --num_train_epochs 10 \
  --learning_rate 1e-5 \
  --gradient_accumulation_steps $N_ACCUM \
  --warmup_steps 1000 \
  --beta 5. \
  --fp16

Please download synthetic dialogues from here

• The naming convention is nwoz_{target_domain}_{fewshot_proportion}.json
• Each dataset contains synthesized dialogues from our NeuralWOZ
• Specifically, It contains synthetic dialogues for the target_domain while excluding original dialogues for the target domain (leave-one-out setup)
• You can check the i-th synthesized dialogue in each files with aug_{target_domain}_{fewshot_proprotion}_{i} for dialogue_idx key.
• You can use the json file to directly train zero/few-shot learner for DST task
• Please see readme for training TRADE and readme for training SUMBT using the dataset
• If you want to synthesize your own dialogues, please see below sections.

Pretrained models are available in this link. The naming convention is like below

• NEURALWOZ: (Collector|Labeler)_{target_domain}_{fewshot_proportion}.tar.gz
• TRADE: nwoz_TRADE_{target_domain}_{fewshot_proportion}.tar.gz
• SUMBT: nwoz_SUMBT_{target_domain}_{fewshot_proportion}.tar.gz

To synthesize your own dialogues, please download and unzip both of Collector and Labeler in same target domain and fewshot_proportion at $COLLECTOR_PATH and $LABELER_PATH, repectively.

Please use tar -zxvf MODEL.tar.gz for the unzipping.

python3 neuralwoz/run_neuralwoz.py \
  --dataset_dir data \
  --output_dir data \
  --output_file_name neuralwoz-output.json \
  --target_data collector_dev_data.json \
  --include_domain $TARGET_DOMAIN \
  --collector_path $COLLECTOR_PATH \
  --labeler_path $LABELER_PATH \
  --num_dialogues $NUM_DIALOGUES \
  --batch_size 16 \
  --num_beams 1 \
  --top_k 0 \
  --top_p 0.98 \
  --temperature 0.9 \
  --include_missing_dontcare

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