Abstract
A dataset intended for fully trainable natural language generation (NLG) systems in task-oriented spoken dialogue systems (SDS), covering the English public transport information domain. It includes preceding context (user utterance) along with each data instance (pair of source meaning representation and target natural language paraphrase to be generated).
Taking the form of the previous user utterance into account for generating the system response allows NLG systems trained on this dataset to entrain (adapt) to the preceding utterance, i.e., reuse wording and syntactic structure. This should presumably improve the perceived naturalness of the output, and may even lead to a higher task success rate.
Crowdsourcing has been used to obtain natural context user utterances as well as natural system responses to be generated.