Dynamic Composition in Conversational Domain Exploration – talk by Dr. Idan Szpektor (Google)

In this talk I will introduce conversational domain exploration, where the user’s goal is to enrich her knowledge of a given domain by conversing with an informative bot.  Such a bot should be proactive, offer relevant information not directly asked by the user and pivot the conversation to undiscovered regions of the domain.

I will present a new approach for conversational domain exploration, that addresses these dialogue characteristics, termed dynamic composition. I’ll dive into its components and its training process. Finally, I will present the results of an experiment in which real users interacted with a domain exploration bot on the NBA domain within the Google Assistant.