CDConv: A Benchmark for Contradiction Detection in Chinese Conversations

Chujie Zheng, Jinfeng Zhou, Yinhe Zheng, Libiao Peng, Zhen Guo, Wenquan Wu, Zheng-Yu Niu, Hua Wu, Minlie Huang


Abstract
Dialogue contradiction is a critical issue in open-domain dialogue systems. The contextualization nature of conversations makes dialogue contradiction detection rather challenging. In this work, we propose a benchmark for Contradiction Detection in Chinese Conversations, namely CDConv. It contains 12K multi-turn conversations annotated with three typical contradiction categories: Intra-sentence Contradiction, Role Confusion, and History Contradiction. To efficiently construct the CDConv conversations, we devise a series of methods for automatic conversation generation, which simulate common user behaviors that trigger chatbots to make contradictions. We conduct careful manual quality screening of the constructed conversations and show that state-of-the-art Chinese chatbots can be easily goaded into making contradictions. Experiments on CDConv show that properly modeling contextual information is critical for dialogue contradiction detection, but there are still unresolved challenges that require future research.
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2022.emnlp-main.2
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Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
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December
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2022
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Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
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Yoav Goldberg, Zornitsa Kozareva, Yue Zhang
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EMNLP
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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18–29
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https://aclanthology.org/2022.emnlp-main.2
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2022.emnlp-main.2
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Chujie Zheng, Jinfeng Zhou, Yinhe Zheng, Libiao Peng, Zhen Guo, Wenquan Wu, Zheng-Yu Niu, Hua Wu, and Minlie Huang. 2022. CDConv: A Benchmark for Contradiction Detection in Chinese Conversations. In Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 18–29, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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CDConv: A Benchmark for Contradiction Detection in Chinese Conversations (Zheng et al., EMNLP 2022)
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