Dialogue summarization enhanced response generation for multi-domain task-oriented dialogue systems

Lifang Wang, Meng Zhao, Hongru Ji, Zejun Jiang, Ronghan Li, Zhongtian Hu, Xinyu Lu

Abstract: Highlights•Dialogue summary improves response generation for task-oriented dialogue systems.•Dialogue summarization enhances the domain adaptation of dialogue state tracking.•Dialogue summary generated in the previous turn is useful for the current turn.•Too long a dialogue history input detracts from dialogue responses.•Dialogue summarizations help dialogue systems handle long dialogues.