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