NewsDialogues

ACL'2023 (Findings): NewsDialogues: Towards Proactive News Grounded Conversation

Dataset

• All the conversation data files are in the 'dataset' folder, where the train/valid/test files are the splits used in our experiments.
• Each conversation includes:
  • news: the grounded news article during conversation
    • title: the tile of the news article
    • date: the date of the news article
    • url: the link to the news article
  • topics: key topics of the news written by human annotators
  • dialog: news grounded conversation, including agent and user utterances
    • user
      • utterance
      • act: dialog act
    • agent
      • utterance
      • act: dialog act
      • topic: the target topic of this utterance
      • span: the grounded knowledge spans of this utterance
      • unanswerable: whether this utterance is an answer for unanswerable question